When Sampras eventually beat Patrick Rafter after four sets of high-quality tennis, the darkness had begun to fall.
By the time that was all over, darkness had fallen over the city.
Though darkness had fallen early, raging blazes in two walk-in fireplaces and dozens of flickering candles kept the damp at bay and softened the edges of the formal room.
It was very cold, but still we sat until the darkness had a brown edge to it, and my mother came to the door, expressing no surprise at seeing me there.
Emma found her 30-year-old brother Graham in the darkness and had started to pull him up the ladder when she felt faint and lost consciousness.
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The darkness, it seemed, had always been there, giving his work its authenticity and its voice.
There was no moon, and the stars were high and faint, but the rails shone clear and far, as if they were gathering, out of the poverty of darkness, the light that had been scattered in the gloom.
In the darkness and confusion, concert-goers had rushed into the bathroom thinking it was an exit.
But, in later years, he had developed a potent fear of darkness in an empty house.
What if they all had to grope around in this darkness forever?
Earlier his wife, Marisabel, and children had left Caracas in the cover of darkness on a PDVSA jet for Barquisimeto in western Venezuela.
What we as a country owed them was nights, at the end, when they never again had to feel that dread in the darkness.
It was out there, in the darkness between Denver and Albuquerque, that I believe we had our last discussion, maybe a year after you died.
Scarborough Council said it had abandoned plans to carry out the work during darkness as it needed to monitor the situation in daylight.
The spider species require total darkness, even at night, and the sealed vaults which had remained closed for years were the ideal dwelling for them.
For some employees, the news that their colorful little bricolage of a company had been bought by Amazon felt like a plunge into darkness.
She said he had rigged up his own electricity supply and lived in near darkness, illuminated only by two low wattage lightbulbs.
Despite having a decent Metacritic rating of 73, the Star Trek Into Darkness movie failed to build on the domestic success that the original JJ Abrams reboot had established four years ago.
" Emerging in late afternoon from the darkness of a movie theater is just as bad: "Local sunlight after rain had, quite unaided, the power not just to make my spirits drop--many things did that--but to convince me, beyond anything that could counter, that life would never again have anything to offer me.
No-one who heard it will ever forget the tidal wave of sound welling from the depths of the crowd that greeted the news that Mr Obama had won - it rippled back through the crowd that stretched far into the darkness of the night and seemed to hang and echo between the downtown skyscrapers.
If earlier the night had belonged to reprobates, now respectable people became accustomed to exploiting the hours of darkness.
The rain, as he had foretold, had returned, whispering and drumming outside, and bringing inside a deeper shade of darkness.
Sharapova had begun her match against the American qualifier on Thursday night and won the first set before darkness stopped play.
Shortly before the fire they had broken up a loyalist blockade near the Quinn house, and protesters ran off into the darkness.
The experiments had been designed with enough variations to avoid false associations - such as dogs beginning to associate sudden darkness with someone giving them food, researchers said.
As darkness enveloped Medinah Country Club in Chicago, Europe's captain Olazabal talked of how the spirit of Seve Ballesteros had been key to his team's success.
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