At 11 p.m. the two pulled up at a dark house with a dirt floor and no electricity--"a place I wouldn't even put my dog, " Parisi recalls. (Make that 13 dogs, all dachshunds.) A wrinkled old man came shuffling toward Parisi in the candlelight.
The colors provide a stark contrast to the dark burned-out shell of a house that sits in the distance -- and offer a painful reminder of the tragedy that befell the people who lived within.
That's right -- a congressman who sits on the House Judiciary Committee is talking about a shootout in a dark room filled with tear gas and panicked, innocent people.
The male resident, who wasn't identified by police, left the door open as he ran upstairs to get his keys, and when he came back downstairs he saw Mr. Smith in the house wearing a ski mask and dark clothing, Lt.
The dark old Marlborough house backing on to a graveyard was a source of terror, particularly the cellar, which haunted his dreams all his life.
But now that they were out of the October chill and inside the warm house she offered him a glass of dark-red Catena wine, from a bottle originally purchased by her husband.
He had opened the window and seemed to be hypnotized by the garden that surrounded the building, and by the neighboring garden, which belonged to a private house and was visible, in part, through dark latticework.
What spectacle confronted them when they, first the host, then the guest, emerged silently, doubly dark, from obscurity by a passage from the rere of the house into the penumbra of the garden?
It was supposed to be about a two-minute walk, but in the unfamiliar dark I missed my house and continued on past more stilt houses.
Ms. Arneja, who snagged the sought-after house in Noe Valley, said she was drawn to the interior, which is covered almost entirely by dark redwood and brick, lending it a feel that lands somewhere between a den and a tree house.
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The mirrors of my house filled me with such a sense of gladness that a room without one struck me as a dark cell.
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