"Pitch black" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at this time he feasted the populace as described, but on another occasion he entertained the foremost men of the senate and the knights in the following fashion. He prepared a room that was pitch black on every side, ceiling, walls and floor, and had ready bare couches, all alike, resting on the uncovered ground; then he invited in his guests alone, at night, without their attendants. And first he set beside each of them a slab shaped like a gravestone, bearing a person's ...
— Dio's Rome, Volume V., Books 61-76 (A.D. 54-211) • Cassius Dio |
