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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



... unspoken insistence, and as she did so, for a single instant she met his eyes. They were darkly inscrutable and gave her no message of any sort. She might have been accepting help ...
— The Knave of Diamonds • Ethel May Dell
... answered. They relapsed into silence, as they walked their beat, to and fro. The sun had gone down, and it was already twilight on that side of the mountains. The rain had cooled the air, and the far land to southward was darkly distinct beyond the purple water. It was very chilly, and Clare was without a shawl, and Johnstone was hatless, but neither of them noticed that it was cool. Johnstone was the ...
— Adam Johnstone's Son • F. Marion Crawford
... use a rather darkly-toned or coloured paper, as, if a quite white paper is used, any letters or papers that have become ...
— Bookbinding, and the Care of Books - A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians • Douglas Cockerell
... is fainter, but there is still no calm. The rain is ceasing, but there is still no sunshine. The view from my window shows me the mist heavy on the earth, and a dim gray veil drawn darkly over the sky. Less than twelve hours since, such a prospect would have saddened me for the day. I look out at it this morning, through the bright medium of my own happiness, and not the shadow of a shade falls across the steady inner sunshine that ...
— The Queen of Hearts • Wilkie Collins
... Elizabeth should grow fond of him, lest Stephen should come to find a fortune convenient. Elizabeth's unaided perceptions would never have reached this point; but in Edmonson's anger at her second refusal of him he had dared to intimate such a thing, so darkly, to be sure, that she had not seen fit to understand him, but plainly enough to throw light upon the estrangement of the two men. "Distasteful," was a light word to use in speaking of anything that Edmonson did not like; his feelings were so strong that he seemed always ready ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 • Various


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