Before dawn
Darkness and before dawn are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Darkness" instead a noun phrase "Before dawn".
Darkness
Darkness noun - A time or place of little or no light.
Before dawn and darkness are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Before dawn" instead a noun "Darkness".
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Ironically, Regis Blackgaard usually only wanted to take over the town, although Darkness Before Dawn reveals that he too has more megalomaniacal motives.
Source: Radio / Adventures in Odyssey -
Shout-Out: The original art for the 25th album, "Darkness Before Dawn", bears a suspicious resemblance to the famous painting "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog".
Source: Radio / Adventures in Odyssey -
When he appears in the "Darkness Before Dawn" arc, you can hear bits of it trying to escape at certain points, but he holds it in until he finally takes over Whit's End.
Source: Evil Laugh
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