A structure loomed darkly against the lighter horizon.
Without the scars, he was a darkly handsome man, his features heavy and masculine.
His eyes flashed darkly and his face went pale under the tan.
His eyes reflected disappointment, but the smile plastered on his darkly handsome face never faltered.
With the growing weakness and corruption of the Hasmonaean princes, and the alienation of a large part of the nation from their cause, the hope of a better kingship begins to appear in Judaea also; at first darkly shadowed forth in the Book of Enoch (chap. xc.), where the white steer, the future leader of God's herd after the deliverance from the heathen, stands in a certain contrast to the actual dynasty (the horned lambs); and then much more clearly, and for the first time with use of the name Messiah, in the Psalter of Solomon, the chief document of the protest of Pharisaism against its enemies the later Hasmonaeans.
