They sat looking into the thickening shadows in the trees, where a million faces and a million stories lurked, O can you say unfound door, can you say lost.

We worked carefully in spite of the thickening shadows, not knowing how deep it was beneath.

In the thickening shadows she couldn't tell who they were - only that they had been male, and looked as if they had died unpleasantly - but she could see Steve standing to one side of the melee at the left of the path, and the sight of him made her feel glad.

'So,' she said dismissively, and left him alone with the empty beds glimmering in the thickening shadows.

Amalric had a dim impression of a black face, divided by a widening red line, fading in the thickening shadows, then darkness caught him with a rush.

He only writhed and crawdaddied on the broken white line, screaming and bleeding from his broken nose and coughing out sand while in the distance coyotes howled at the thickening shadows stretching out from the distant mountains.

Rif smiled somberly into the thickening shadows.

He was gazing ahead into the thickening shadows when he saw movement in the Osborne yard.

Amalric had a dim impression of a face divided by a widening red line, fading in the thickening shadows.

Daylight was fading, and the water flowed black in the thickening shadows.