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pitch-dark Adjective extremely or completely dark
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The sun was setting when consciousness returned, and it was pitch-dark before the Great Staircase was descended; but by a combination of luck and care, the whole four thousand seven hundred feet of descent to Breil was accomplished without a slip, or once missing the way. There was nothing to do but to walk forward; which I did through passage after passage, pitch-dark. We were in consequence obliged to stand off and on in this narrow arm of the sea, during a pitch-dark night of fourteen hours long. |
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