He shook his head and scanned the starry darkness around him.

He stopped, listening in the thin, starry darkness between the trees.

Too soon, the riotous sunset gave way to a starry darkness.

With the starry darkness, the memory of the abomination returned disturbingly to his mind.

Through the starry darkness we moved down the path to the Little House.

A starry darkness over the house, the forest, the sea; the dinner cleared away, the lamp extinguished.

But the night outside, with its flashingly bright sun off to one side and everywhere else starry darkness, was an unchanging environment.

A starry darkness now and then enclosed him.

It was as if a perfectly round, black sphere had appeared in the starry darkness.