And then, next thing I know, all the lights went out, and it got dark outside.

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Hilda proposed that they take a walk right away, before it got dark.

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We had a great day, and it got pretty dark.

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Liz would ride her bike up and down the driveway, waiting for her father to call her, to tell her to come quick, to come see the misshapen gourd, or the earthworm, or the potato bug before it got too dark, and she would, before it went black as pitch.

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On the morning of December 6, 1986, Judy Bishop got up while it was still dark.

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It's one thing if you want a medicine or chemistry Nobel Prize but if you want a physics Nobel Prize it pretty much has got to be dark chocolate.

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The armored car we were in ran into a Humvee, it was so dark, then got hit by another armored car that nearly slammed us over on our side and then to top that off we (the car) ran right into a house -- fortunately no one was inside.

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It was still dark outside when I got up, but by the time I went down, dawn was breaking over Tolly.

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It's when it's dark, it's raining, you think oh I've got to go and walk outside with one baked bean can and that's... and then I'll maybe.. if I do it, then I'll sometimes think oh I won't wash it out.

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"If I've got a really dark lyric, it's probably disguised in a chirpy song, " says the singer.

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But there's something else pushing travelers to the after-dark flights, and it's got more to do with the state of the airline business.

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