It was a pitch-dark night.

A form was near--what form, the pitch-dark night and my enfeebled vision prevented me from distinguishing.

In the pitch-dark night, and now that they were wide-awake again, Marion's fears about seeing Ruth surfaced.

Aided by a pitch-dark night with no hint of a moon, they stopped within a scant hundred yards of the gate without being discovered.

It'd got so that he could tell where he was on a pitch-dark night just by the feel of the cobbles.

It was a pitch-dark night when my husband and I went down, as was our custom, to feed the beast.

And an umbrella to keep the moon off when you give your mind to it on a pitch-dark night.

Neither man spoke as the officer's car cleared through the well-guarded main gate of the fort without being stopped, into the pitch-dark night.

They were under constant watch during the day and were made to sleep apart with tribeswomen during the terrible pitch-dark nights.

On those chilly, pitch-dark nights, we'd drift off in our cushiony beds, lulled by the soothing noise of a nearby rocky river.