The onslaught unfurled in at least five waves, beginning in the early-morning darkness and proceeding throughout the day.

It was in the early-morning darkness that the bullets came for Ernesto Salgado.

Driving down to Scardale in daylight was scarcely less intimidating than approaching at night or in the early-morning darkness.

Brennan drove them through the early-morning darkness to Tachyon's apartment.

But what exactly was this thing that arrived in the early-morning darkness?

On the other side three Dobermans, as sleek as guided missiles, rushed toward him through the early-morning darkness.

Sydney, 12, was disappointed when her father woke her in yesterday's early-morning darkness, he said.

The lobby glowed behind the glass doors in the early-morning darkness, and it looked, for those first few moments, like a warm, welcoming place.

All five had been wanted by the authorities, and the gun battle apparently occurred as soldiers tried to apprehend the Palestinians in the early-morning darkness.

Then the early-morning darkness was filled with bricks, bottles and even a can of paint hurled from the nearby rooftops, the chief said.