"Blackly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have run me through for my interference, so blackly did he glare at me; but the next instant he ...
— The Cryptogram - A Story of Northwest Canada • William Murray Graydon
... her knees beside her bed, and stretched out her arms upon it, an image of that desolation of soul which, when we are young, seems limitless, but which in later life we know has comparatively narrow bounds beyond the clouds that rest so blackly ...
— Indian Summer • William D. Howells
... be beat," said Bill blackly; "the old man was badly scared yesterday. We must have ...
— Sea Urchins • W. W. Jacobs
... beside the bluff. Then, they grew suddenly silent again as Muller, who it seemed remembered that he had been taught by the franc tireurs, rode past them with his rifle across his saddle. They pulled up when his figure cut blackly against the sky on the crest of a rise, and Hetty's laugh ...
— The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss
... Fierce appetite, that all-devouring fire,— When life is not alone a wasting scourge, But from the swamps of soulless strife emerge Some Pisgah peaks of promise where the dove Finds footing, high the whirling gulfs above,— Now the intrusion of this loathly shape, With pestilence-breathing jaws that blackly gape For indiscriminate prey, is sure a thing To set celestial guards once more a-wing; To fire a new St. Michael or St. George With the bright death to cleave the monster's gorge, And trample out the Laidly Worm's last breath In the convulsions of reluctant death. A crawling, craven, sneaking, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, April 16, 1892 • Various
... curl and discolour, the writing blackly distinct, and crumble into ashes. Then from force of habit she searched for a cigarette in a box on the mantelpiece, but as she lit it a sudden thought arrested her and after a moment's hesitation the cigarette followed the half—written ...
— The Shadow of the East • E. M. Hull
... early moonlight evening was less joyous than had been the journey to the store. To the young Sioux girl the sleigh-bells seemed to jingle harshly, and the gumbo hills, whose tops were bare of snow, seemed frowning blackly from across ...
— Big and Little Sisters • Theodora R. Jenness
... in amazement from the boyish face surmounting a shapeless woman's gown to the thing it watched so yearningly—a light flaring brightly on the hill, a lot of small dancing figures silhouetted blackly against it, the smell of coal-oil, and the shrill ...
— The Madigans • Miriam Michelson |
