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Darkling   Listen
verb
Darkling  pres. part., adj.  
1.
Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing. "His honest brows darkling as he looked towards me."
2.
Dark; gloomy. "The darkling precipice."


adverb
Darkling  adv.  In the dark. (Poetic) "So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling." "As the wakeful bird Sings darkling."





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"Darkling" Quotes from Famous Books



... desolate she fled, and pour'd her thought, "To the dread verge of wild distraction wrought. 260 "White drops of mercy bath'd his hoary cheek, "He pour'd by heav'n inspir'd its accents meek; "In truth's clear mirror bade the mourner's view "Pierce the deep veil which darkling error drew; "And vanquish'd empire with a smile resign, 265 "While brighter worlds in fair perspective shine."— She paus'd—yet still the sweet enthusiast bends O'er the cold turf, and still her tear descends; The ever-falling ...
— Poems (1786), Volume I. • Helen Maria Williams
... the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness,— That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. . . . . . . "Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul ...
— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall
... and looked up into the darkling heaven of her parasol; and then it occurred to her that her wisest plan would be to laugh. So she laughed. She laughed in almost precisely the same manner as James had heard Susan laugh thirty years previously, before love had come into Susan's life like a shell into ...
— Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) • Arnold Bennett
... as the daylight comes When the darkling night has gone, And the quickened East is tremulous With the ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various
... lair, till I was feart that folk wid see them, and come peering down and get me. But a herrin' skiff took me away from that place in the dark of the night, and I drifted to the warm South Seas and the darkling women and the white glistening houses; but she came with me, she that had died. I would be seeing her rising before the bows o' the ship, rising from the sea, and waving on me to follow, and the weather was worse and worse at her every coming. An' there ...
— The McBrides - A Romance of Arran • John Sillars


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