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Dusky adj.

Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley. "Through dusky lane and wrangling mart."

Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. "When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky." "The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur."

Gloomy; sad; melancholy. "This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect."

Intellectually clouded. "Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology."

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Etymology of 'Dusky'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dusky" Quotes from Famous Books

... known in every dusky Northwold lane or alley, where she always found or made a welcome for herself. The kindly counsel and ready hand were more potent than far larger ...

— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. I) - or, The Clue of Life • Charlotte M. Yonge

... the dusky wrinkles lapsed into gentler lines, for some one had the audacity to touch mademoiselle's hand with a birdlike tap of ...

— The Isle of Unrest • Henry Seton Merriman

... as we turned to go Amid fair meadows, dusky in the night, The mists fell back upon the road below; Broke on our tired eyes the western light; The very graves were for a moment bright: And ...

— In Flanders Fields and Other Poems - With an Essay in Character, by Sir Andrew Macphail • John McCrae

... and Kimberley he had carried on negotiations which had finally culminated, five years previously, in his leading a column of 500 hardy pioneers to the promising country of Mashonaland, which up to that time had lain in darkness under the cruel rule of the dusky monarch. During three strenuous years Dr. Jameson, with no military or legal education, had laboured to establish the nucleus of a civilized government in that remote country; and during the first part of that period the nearest point of ...

— South African Memories - Social, Warlike & Sporting From Diaries Written At The Time • Lady Sarah Wilson

... often comes as the result simply of an over-wearied body and mind, without any pain or accident whatever. It appears as an inability to see small distant objects, or to see at all in dusky twilight. The sight is also variable—good when the patient is not wearied, and bad when he is tired. When this comes on under thirty years of age, the eyes have almost certainly been overworked, and need rest. Rest from all reading and other work trying for the eyes is the ...

— Papers on Health • John Kirk

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