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Darkly   /dˈɑrkli/   Listen
Darkly

adverb
1.
Without light.  Synonym: in darkness.
2.
In a dark glowering menacing manner.






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"Darkly" Quotes from Famous Books



... where material was scarce, and starvation to fight year after year. Young encouraged everybody by his talk at the church meetings, shared in the manual labor of building houses and cultivating land, and devised means to entertain and encourage those who were disposed to look on their future darkly. No one ever heard him, whatever others might say, doubt the genuineness of Joseph Smith's inspiration and revelations, and he so established his own position as Smith's successor that he secured the devout allegiance of the old flock, without making such ...
— The Story of the Mormons: • William Alexander Linn

... the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As darkly painted on the crimson ...
— The Log of the Sun - A Chronicle of Nature's Year • William Beebe

... said darkly. "We know of no danger in the direction you speak of. Per-rhaps we would wish to make fr-riends with that ...
— A Matter of Importance • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... of years encrust her With a numbing mail of stone, Till her laugh lose half its lustre, And her truth forswear its tone, And she see God's might and mercy darkly through ...
— What I Remember, Volume 2 • Thomas Adolphus Trollope

... on being marked out from the ordinary experience of mankind, by the possession of a double nature, and a life within a life. He appeared to imagine that the snake was a divinity,—not celestial, it is true, but darkly infernal,—and that he thence derived an eminence and a sanctity, horrid, indeed, yet more desirable than whatever ambition aims at. Thus he drew his misery around him like a regal mantle, and looked down triumphantly upon those whose vitals nourished no deadly monster. Oftener, however, ...
— Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories • Nathaniel Hawthorne


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