Ms. COLLINS: (Singing) As we go marching, marching in the beauty of the day, a million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray, are touched with all the radiance as a sudden sun discloses, for the people hear us singing: bread and roses, bread and roses.

NPR: Judy Collins, From Both Sides Now

And Wall Street's gloom has darkened by the day.

FORBES: No Thain, No Gain

Melville reflected on his time here: 'It needs scarcely to be told, with what feelings I regarded those marble tablets, and by the murky light of that darkened, doleful day read the fate of the whalemen who had gone before me.

BBC: The haunted land of New England

The view of the town is equally impressive during the day, or at night, when thousands of lights climb the darkened mountains in a dreamscape of illumination.

FORBES: Daily Travel Flashback: Positano, Italy

Better a darkened house and proud hunger within than disgrace in the light of day.

NEWYORKER: Nawabdin Electrician

Each day, after the bands packed up, the speeches were done, and the camera lights darkened, I always came back to how blessed and honored I was to be part of our national conversation.

NPR: Transcript: Cindy McCain's Speech

Each day, after the bands packed up, and the speeches were done, and the camera lights darkened, I always came back to how blessed and honored I was to be a part of our national conversation.

CNN: Cindy McCain: John McCain speaks truth, at any cost

I'm sitting on the couch in a darkened apartment in my underwears eating my spaghetti when suddenly the events and the emotions of the day come tumbling down on me.

NPR: Mars Rover Marks Second Anniversary of Landing