A running and ringing in the darkening afternoon, urgent voices on the phone and the grind and clang of the lift as it came and went.

Slitting his eyes against the rain, Reagan peered back towards his office, its lit windows like beacons of warmth and shelter against the darkening afternoon.

What you're thinking of,' he announced to the darkening afternoon, 'is grotesque.

The gray stone house looked forbidding in the darkening afternoon.

They sparkled even in the darkening afternoon.

The courtroom . . . Jessie stopped, looking out the window into the darkening afternoon with eyes that were wide and gray and blank.

The darkening afternoon was filled with strident voices: Look out (clap-clap-double clap) Here we come We've got those Wildcats on the run.

Its hood shut with a bang that echoed through the darkening afternoon.

In the darkening afternoon, the taxi pulled up to her hotel.

But for some reason, as she came down from the Fish Shambles in the darkening afternoon, she decided to turn across that way for a quick look.