In the blackest hour of the Lincoln administration, his own party despaired of his election.

In the seclusion of his own room, he went through the blackest hour of his life.

You found me in the very blackest hour of all-andyou seemed a shining sun to me.

Then came the day of the Black Shadow, but in her blackest hour she had not felt alone.

But I knew the man: he was one of those who wear their brightest smile in the blackest hour.

In the blackest hour that the Netherland commonwealth had ever known, the fortitude of the stadholder did not desert him.

It was the slackest, blackest hour in an all-night dive; the nocturnal habitues had slunk away, and the day's trade had not yet begun.

In the blackest hours of the morning, he slipped back into camp and into Igraine's tent.

Dreda's heart sank still further at the sound which Miss Drake's pupils had learnt to associate with their blackest hours.

Courage, mistress; there comes an end to the blackest hours, and surely into yours there has penetrated a beam of light.

"The day that brings you success will be the blackest hour of my life."

"You will have one loyal follower the blackest hour of the darkest night that comes."

"He took advantage of my blackest hour," said Kate.

"I think," said Linda quietly, "that tonight is going to teach him how Marian felt in her blackest hours."