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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

... When it grew dusky and in the towns along the way bright lights appeared, a sudden fear took possession of her. What if she should be unable to see Miss Dayton when she stepped from the ...

— Randy and Her Friends • Amy Brooks

... their cheery good-byes; and with a lieutenant to guide me, I set out while the light was still dusky, leaving the comforting parapet to the rear to go into the open, four hundred yards from the Germans. A German, though he could not have seen us distinctly, must have noted something moving. Two of his bullets ...

— My Year of the War • Frederick Palmer

... the scene was changed: the Roman horsemen burst in, and, frenzied by the spectacle before them, slew madly and fast. Hither and thither they swept, wherever the dusky figures sought to fly, and the thin, reed-like lances rose and plunged and rose again, shivering and dripping, from the bodies of their victims. But for their well-trained steeds, who came and knelt at their masters' calls, not one of the desert horsemen could have escaped, ...

— The Lion's Brood • Duffield Osborne

... Such conditions might not happen again in a thousand days or ten thousand days, but the one day it had happened had been the day he landed from the Nari for several hours' collecting. Especially had he been in quest of the famed jungle butterfly, a foot across from wing-tip to wing-tip, as velvet-dusky of lack of colour as was the gloom of the roof, of such lofty arboreal habits that it resorted only to the jungle roof and could be brought down only by a dose of shot. It was for this purpose that Sagawa ...

— The Red One • Jack London

... known by repute and by tradition for centuries past. Finding, therefore, the tropical islands of the Caribbean sea with a climate and plants and animals such as they imagined those of Asia and the Indian ocean to be, and inhabited by men of dusky colour and strange speech, they naturally thought the place to be part of Asia, or the Indies. The name 'Indians,' given to the aborigines of North America, records ...

— The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada • Stephen Leacock

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