Спасибо за переводы - the darkness was the kind which, time-honored phrase goes, you could cut with a knife.

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It was hard to see what was going on around us for the sky was overcast and the darkness was the kind which, time-honored phrase goes, you could cut with a knife, while the stinging snowdrift, whirling and eddying through the air, under the impetus of the screaming gale, added to the uncertainty as to what was about to happen from moment to moment.