Meanings of smother darkness in English

The crisp, cottony smell of new paper sliced through the smothering darkness.

Their eyes scanned the smothering darkness and they held their weapons at the ready.

Suddenly the Inn was plunged into thick, smothering darkness.

Tanis could see nothing in the smothering darkness.

At the same moment, Nicodemus flung both his arms forward, and a terrible, smothering darkness came slamming down upon me.

Taking her goodness into himself and erasing all the smothering darkness, filling himself with Emily as he emptied himself into her.

Jane's candle flared and went out in the draught from the suddenly opened door, and in the smothering darkness they stumbled pell-mell down the stairs.