He could still see the light as a wobbly line of lesser darkness in his peripheral vision.

Then she found two figures under the bridge, black against the lesser darkness beyond them.

It did not glow; it was merely a lesser darkness than that of the cave.

And as I looked back, into that zone of lesser darkness there silently drifted a dense moving shadow.

The girl lay quietly, her face toward the lesser darkness which showed through the entrance.

A lesser darkness came from the night outside through the single window overlooking the courtyard.

He rode out of the deeper shadow into the lesser darkness.

Presently a figure appeared, silhouetted against the lesser darkness beyond the doorway.

With the lesser darkness about him, Jack placed his will upon the boulder.

He saw it after a moment and simply froze, staring at the dark form within the lesser darkness.