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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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"Dusky" Quotes from Famous Books

... and so, though she knew she could be happier with him than with the one who with his arm around her waist was pleading for her love, she yielded at last, and in that dim old church, with the summer moonlight stealing up the dusky aisles, she promised to be the wife of J.C. De ...

— Cousin Maude • Mary J. Holmes

... Owing, possibly, to the little care taken to preserve this variety from admixture, it is now not frequently seen. Another variety is often red, with a black breast and single dentated comb. The tarsi are smooth, and of a dusky blue. When this sort of Bantam is pure, it yields in courage and spirit to none, and is, in fact, a game-fowl in miniature, being as beautiful and graceful as it is spirited. A pure white Bantam, possessing all the qualifications ...

— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton

... The dusky recesses of the rooms, heavy with opulent comfort, stretched away from our long feast. There you could rest, effectually sheltered from the harsh noises of the world. And I rejoiced. Each minute I saw more clearly things as they are. I saw you giving the ...

— Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories • Robert Herrick

... practically disappeared. But some flavour of its old associations may still cling to it in the minds of the sais and ayah who proudly parade to a festival carrying umbrellas spread over them to shade their dusky features from the sun; though the Raja, in obedience to the dictates of fashion, has discarded the umbrella ...

— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume II • R. V. Russell

... of Peter Abelard is one of those human documents, out of the very heart of the Middle Ages, that illuminates by the glow of its ardour a shadowy period that has been made even more dusky and incomprehensible by unsympathetic commentators and the ill-digested matter of "source-books." Like the "Confessions" of St. Augustine it is an authentic revelation of personality and, like the ...

— Historia Calamitatum • Peter Abelard

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