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Darkly   /dˈɑrkli/   Listen
adverb
Darkly  adv.  
1.
With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly. "What fame to future times conveys but darkly down." "so softly dark and darkly pure."
2.
With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look. "Looking darkly at the clerguman."





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"Darkly" Quotes from Famous Books



... larfin hartily at these remarks, which was made in a goakin spirit, the man frowned darkly and ...
— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 5 • Charles Farrar Browne
... had been a pioneer. He served in the council and the field, but he left a name chiefly as a magistrate. His duty as judge fell in the witchcraft years, and under that adversity of fortune he showed those qualities of the Puritan temperament which are most darkly recalled; he examined and sentenced to death several of the accused persons, and bore himself so inhumanely in court that the husband of one of the sufferers cursed him,—it must have been dramatically done to have left so vivid a mark in men's minds,—him and his children's children. This was the ...
— Nathaniel Hawthorne • George E. Woodberry
... civilisation. The creed for which the early Tenggerese fought and conquered, has cooled from white heat to a shapeless petrifaction, and weird influences throng the ruined temple of a moribund faith, but the shadows which loom darkly above the mouldering altars still command the old allegiance, and a thousand hereditary ties bind heart and soul to ...
— Through the Malay Archipelago • Emily Richings
... thing seemed about to happen. During these days of solitude—and this, too, even before Matilda had gone—a queer new something had begun to stir within her, almost as though threatening an eruption. It seemed a force, or spirit, rising darkly from hitherto unknown spaces of her being. It frightened her, with its amorphous, menacing strangeness. She tried to keep it down. She tried to keep her mental eyes away from it. And so, during all these days, she had no idea what the fearsome thing ...
— No. 13 Washington Square • Leroy Scott
... and pretending to scowl darkly, he drew out the revolver which Colonel Josiah had made him promise to carry while down in this ...
— The Aeroplane Boys on the Wing - Aeroplane Chums in the Tropics • John Luther Langworthy


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