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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Dark
 
  Dark as the yawning grave.
            —Mark Akenside		  1
  Dark as a cellar.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Dark as a dungeon.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Dark as a funeral scarf.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Dark as a thief’s pocket.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Dark as futurity.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Dark as midnight.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Dark as the shades of night.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Dark like a dead person in a coffin.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Dark as Death’s Eye.
            —Philip James Bailey		  10
  Dark as a wood.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  11
Dark as was chaos, ere the infant Sun
Was rolled together, or had tried his beams
Athwart the gloom profound.
            —Robert Blair		  12
  Dark as a Spaniard.
            —Charlotte Brontë		  13
  Darkened, as the lighthouse will that turns upon the sea.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  14
  Dark as mire.
            —John Bunyan		  15
  Dark as pitch.
            —John Bunyan		  16
  Dark as misery’s woeful night.
            —Robert Burns		  17
  Dark as a sullen cloud before the sun.
            —Lord Byron		  18
  Dark as winter.
            —Thomas Campbell		  19
  Darkly, as through the foliage of some wavering thicket.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  20
  Dark as death.
            —Alice Cary		  21
  Darked, as it is wonte to darke by smoked images.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  22
  Dark as a murderer’s mask of crape.
            —Eliza Cook		  23
  Dark as the grave.
            —Abraham Cowley		  24
  Dark and cold, like a benighted hemisphere.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  25
  Dark as a fiend.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  26
  Ever darker and darker, like the shadow of advancing death.
            —Charles Dickens		  27
  Darkened, like the earth on a splendid day when a cloud flits across the sun.
            —Alexandre Dumas, père		  28
  Dark as pines that autumn never sears.
            —George Eliot		  29
  Dark as Pluto’s palace.
            —Richard Glover		  30
  Dark as a cloud that journeys overhead.
            —Thomas Hood		  31
  Dark as the grave.
            —Thomas Hood		  32
  Dark as shadows be.
            —Thomas Hood		  33
  Dark as the language of the Delphic fane.
            —Horace		  34
  Dark as the back of a stag-beetle.
            —Irish Epic Tales		  35
  Dark as the parentage of chaos.
            —John Keats		  36
  Dark as the pillars of some Hindoo shrine.
            —Charles Kingsley		  37
  Dark as Saint Bartholomew.
            —Walter Savage Landor		  38
  Darkness like the day of doom.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  39
  Dark as a coal-hole.
            —Samuel Lover		  40
  Dark as the swelling wave of ocean before the rising winds, when it bends its head near the coast.
            —James Macpherson		  41
  Dark as it were dipped in the death-shadow.
            —Gerald Massey		  42
  Dark as a dead man in the ground.
            —Sydney Munden		  43
  Dark as a demon’s dread thought.
            —Mrs.
            —Osgood		  44
  Dark as the hush’d silence of the grave.
            —Thomas Otway		  45
  Dark as night’s protecting wing.
            —John Pierpont		  46
  Dark as the caves wherein earth’s thunders groan.
            —Edgar Allan Poe		  47
  See him darkly as in a mirror.
            —Saint Augustine		  48
  As dark as a Yule midnight.
            —Scottish Proverb		  49
  Dark as the bottom of a well.
            —W. Clark Russell		  50
  Dark as care.
            —Friedrich von Schiller		  51
  Dark as Egypt.
            —William Shakespeare		  52
  Dark as Erebus.
            —William Shakespeare		  53
  Dark as hell.
            —William Shakespeare		  54
  Dark as ignorance.
            —William Shakespeare		  55
  Dark as a cloud that the moon turns bright.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  56
  Dark as fate.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  57
  Dark as fear.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  58
                Dark in her sight
As her measureless measure of shadowless pleasure was bright.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  59
  Dark as the heart of time.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  60
  Galleons dark as the helmsman’s bark of old that ferried to hell the dead.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  61
  Dark as the sire that begat her, Despair.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  62
  More dark than the dead world’s tomb.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  63
  Darkened as one that wastes by sorcerous art and knows not whence it withers.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  64
  Dark as a land’s decline.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  65
  Silent dark as shame.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  66
  Dark as the inside of a whale.
            —Frederick William Thomas		  67
  Dark as the brooding thundercloud.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  68
Dark as the shroudings of a bier,-
As if the blessed atmosphere,
Like his own soul, was dim.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  69
  Dark as the waiting tomb.
            —McLandburgh Wilson		  70
 
 
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