The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The country, England and India alike, are so satisfied with my rule over what I may, perhaps without offence, call our dusky. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, July 2, 1892] Reference
I guess it's okay to say "dusky" as a euphemism for "darky.". From Wordnik.com. ["Why is Obama so vapid and hesitant and gutless? Why, to put it another way, does he risk going into political history as a dusky Dukakis?"] Reference
I sang till it got kind of dusky, and then I left my house for the last time. From Wordnik.com. [sheepdip Diary Entry] Reference
There was a kind of dusky brownish-green parrot, too, which the scientific call a Nestor. From Wordnik.com. [A First Year in Canterbury Settlement] Reference
She called the dusky little Egyptian, and said. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
When the daylight blue had faded, there was a kind of dusky lull. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Betty Across the Water] Reference
She told police it was "dusky" when she saw "a big black thing" and fired the rifle her husband had given her for Christmas. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
"dusky", as did Hawthorne, a literary hero of mine, and use it often. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
Plunger could see the dusky face looking into his. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
The dusky pine trees, draped with wreaths of vine. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
Near her crotch were patches of dusky and cosmetic olive. From Wordnik.com. [What You Never Thought You Wanted] Reference
They called them - the papers called them dusky doughboys. From Wordnik.com. [Teddy Roosevelt And The 'Burn' That Saved Forests] Reference
He pictures a high-wire artist traversing deep, dusky wine. From Wordnik.com. [Ants] Reference
Eleanor grows very fond of Elizabeth Kachin and her dusky son. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
She came when it was getting dusky and the air was turning dry. From Wordnik.com. [There's Bugs] Reference
The firm cheeks, dusky as sunset, had lost something of their contour. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
The dusky figures followed in pursuit, still yelling their outlandish cries. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
The dusky Milky Way stretched across the celestial ceiling like a canyon. From Wordnik.com. [Fast] Reference
As for Washington White, he gazed down to the dusky earth below them and his eyes rolled. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
Cherokee purples are rich and sweet and range from dusky rose to deep red or purple-black. From Wordnik.com. [Heirloom tomatoes abound in August] Reference
(Soundbite of Ethiopia Saluting the Colors) Mr. HAMPSON: (Singing) Who are you, dusky woman?. From Wordnik.com. [A Tour of American Popular Song] Reference
The cheeks of William the Testy were scorched into a dusky red by two fiery little gray eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
I couldn't make a fire, or anything, though it began to get dusky, and still Mr. Garry didn't come. From Wordnik.com. [W. A. G.'s Tale] Reference
A dusky flush in the olive cheeks told of the returning blood, under the whip of the biting ammonia. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
There was a rich crimson spot on each dusky cheek, and her red lips were parted in a bewitching smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
"Halt!" exclaimed this dusky man and brother, bringing down his bayonet, -- "de countersign not correck.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Resin fossilized into the dusky gemstone amber, preserving intact the insect and, perhaps, its last supper. From Wordnik.com. [Here Come The Dnasaurs] Reference
Sometimes they spent whole days on the water, their dusky captain keeping a sharp watch out for hurricanes. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
He mounted the top of a long, high hill and began searching the new, dusky horizon for the nearest anything. From Wordnik.com. [Pros and Cons of Wildflower Collection] Reference
Far away the dusky gray of the plains deepened into darker and darker shadows that ended in a low black mass. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
Of a sudden an unearthly yell rent the air, and half a dozen dusky figures leapt from the bushes in the distance. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
On a dusky autumn evening, a young man, tall, olive-skinned, tramps along the road leading from Paris to Longchamps. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
The station was crowded with soldiers and civilians as the Guernseys 'train drew up in the cool, dusky evening light. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
I am delighted when my horse, a beauty, indeed, and of pure Arabian stock, is led up by two dusky sons of the desert. From Wordnik.com. [My Three Days in Gilead] Reference
There were people on the dusky benches, and many on the walks strolling to and fro, although it was now growing quite late. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
The tinted leaves were stirring gently on the boughs, and here and there an early star was twinkling in the dusky vault above me. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
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