Get the car started and then we can set off.

We are in the midst of a full-blown crisis.

Black eyebrows and eyes so dark and scrutinizing (but he was being scrutinized too) as to give the face a sinister expression, especially through a sly underbrow manner of switching the eyes from one object to another.

The tenth century used to be reckoned by mediaeval historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night.