And it was cold enough that he could see the white mist of his own 101 breath pluming into the inky dark.

The whisper of a voice in his mind jerked him back from the edge of the black pool into which he was sliding, pulled him from the inky dark into the gray fringes of the light, and he started so violently that the muscles of his legs cramped.

In the inky dark, Felix sensed more than heard bats swooping between the trees and through the brush, feeding on the copious insect life.

Most of it passed effortlessly onward--as the yellow star and its attendant worlds plunged, in an altogether different direction, into the inky dark.

I followed less swiftly, it having gotten inky dark in there once I shut the hatch again.

One eyewitness told a Philadelphia newspaper that the gathering clouds were inky dark.

Skies on the back side of that hurricane's eye wall turned inky dark.

In the inky dark, he could not tell what lay in his path.

I hadn't brought a lamp of my own and the room was inky dark, curtains drawn to shut out the tiniest glimmer of starshine.

I took two steps farther down into the inky dark and stopped like I'd hit a wall.