Mary's charm was in that of duskiness of hair and blueness of eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Trumpeter Swan] Reference
North River, and the prevailing duskiness of the local complexion. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
Phaeism: applied to a duskiness of butterflies occurring in a limited region. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
His duskiness was accentuated by low and intensely black brows, and deep-set, heavy-lidded eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
At length, when they had gone further and further into the heart of the duskiness, Medea squeezed. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
As the eye became accustomed to the foetid duskiness of the prison, a strange picture presented itself. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
She clapped her hands for joy, and beckoning him to haste, disappeared among the duskiness of the trees. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
There is a hidden darkness and duskiness about violets that does not come through in all violet fragrances. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
At the blow the gloom broke apart, but the pieces hung in the air, ebony wisps floating in a sable duskiness. From Wordnik.com. [Carnivores of Light and Darkness]
From those, too, the rays soon faded, and the whole edifice was invested with the solemn duskiness of evening. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of Udolpho] Reference
At length, when they had gone further and further into the heart of the duskiness, Medea squeezed Jason's hand. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of All Nations Famous Stories from the Greek, German, English, Spanish, Scandinavian, Danish, French, Russian, Bohemian, Italian and other sources] Reference
His skin was browned, not with the native duskiness of the Zuagir, but with the ruddy bronze of the sunbaked Westerner. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Avenger]
She saw trouble behind his expression, just a wash of duskiness beneath his complexion, a crimp of worry behind his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Flashback] Reference
Mrs. Charmond turned to hasten back immediately that Fitzpiers had left her side, and he was speedily absorbed into the duskiness of the trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
But eventually they reached the open door with its carvings and panels of bronze, and escaped into the cool duskiness of the illuminated gardens. From Wordnik.com. [Oathbreaker]
The dim duskiness made him shudder; he expected to see the. From Wordnik.com. [Duffels] Reference
It was easy to tell things there in the perfumed duskiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose-Garden Husband] Reference
But all the ways of the owl are ways of softness and duskiness. From Wordnik.com. [Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers] Reference
A little duskiness is sometimes necessary for joy and happiness!. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughter of an Empress] Reference
English hue that showed its warmth through all the duskiness of the. From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
The scarlet of betel-nut was upon her lips; the duskiness of kol shadowed her lashes. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Desmond, V.C.] Reference
One ghastly vision flashed and faded and flashed upon the background of the duskiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Bow Mystery] Reference
Fitzpiers had left her side, and he was speedily absorbed into the duskiness of the trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
The girl went first: her white head-kerchief guided Petrea through the duskiness of the wood. From Wordnik.com. [The Home] Reference
Egyptian prints, and in the duskiness of the low vaulted store seemed cyclopean columns incomplete. From Wordnik.com. [Prue and I] Reference
Her beautiful white shoulders showed up the duskiness of her hair; her head was distinguished and arrestive. From Wordnik.com. [There was a King in Egypt] Reference
Only some southern obstinacy made him watch, from the duskiness of his face, the pale, reserved girl at the grave. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Girl] Reference
With them dark hair was always associated with dark complexions, the rich duskiness of which was always vulgarized by. From Wordnik.com. [Soldiers of Fortune] Reference
While through the open windows, the departing twilight mingled its soft duskiness with the splendors of the mimic day. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author] Reference
He stooped down; but the duskiness of the valley, and the obscurity of twilight would not allow him to distinguish her features. From Wordnik.com. [Undine] Reference
The spring air was filling her veins with abundant health, and mantling her cheeks with a richer duskiness than they had ever worn. From Wordnik.com. [The Stillwater Tragedy] Reference
When they finally reached the water's edge the duskiness of twilight had come, and they knew that darkness would follow in a short time. From Wordnik.com. [Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters] Reference
He had caught from the duskiness of the future -- at least, so he fancied -- a fearful secret, and had obscurely revealed it on the portraits. From Wordnik.com. [The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales")] Reference
"He whipped him, I reckon," said Margaret, in a low tone, and with a dark shadow crossing her face, very different from its own brown duskiness. From Wordnik.com. [Daisy] Reference
He was a large man, sun-burned to the point of duskiness, bearded and moustached as though barbers were unknown in the land from which he hailed. From Wordnik.com. [Caps and Capers A Story of Boarding-School Life] Reference
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