1.   He developed the photographs himself, blundering round the bathroom in the pitch dark.

2.   In the freezing cold and pitch dark, families were driven to clinging to the roof.

3.   We stood outside in the pitch dark.

4.   There, he had been dragged from the car in the pitch dark, and held down as a man drove the vehicle over his legs and back again.

5.   Between lightning flashes fell long spells of pitch dark.

6.   In the pitch dark, stinging as if I had swallowed a blowtorch, I cursed the misguided chefs of the Austin Hot Sauce Festival.

7.   Those who did not work hard enough were locked in a coffin-sized punishment cell, pitch dark, on a starvation diet.

8.   On Sunday, in the pitch dark, four homes were buried under tons of mud and debris.

9.   The Ghost Train is still a favorite with young couples as it careens around sharp corners in the pitch dark.

10.   The trip back was downhill but also in pitch dark, punctuated by breakdowns.