Adjective, : a murky statement. From Dictionary.com.
"A mirky night for a mirky deed," whispered the young man. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
The sun sank into the mist, giving it a blood-red tinge, and night fell swiftly in the mirky swamp. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons of Autumn Twilight]
Can you see it there, in the mirky recesses, as it awaits its moment, countless teeth poised to descend upon you?. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
Hopefully your Switzerland winter-school reinforced the purity in how science works instead of the mirky fog of that sometimes appears in Universe Today. From Wordnik.com. [World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC" | Universe Today] Reference
He set out yesterday to expose the mirky underbelly of concealed carry handgun permitting here in the commonwealth and found, in the end, everything he was looking for. From Wordnik.com. [From On High] Reference
Details of what kind of plea have remained mirky as his lawyer, Doron Weinberg, has refused to reveal which charges the plea will affect and if the plea will be guilty or no contest. From Wordnik.com. [Bernie Ward to Change Plea] Reference
Such daylight as followed was dim; for here as the Mountain drew near the air was ever mirky, while out from the Dark Tower there crept the veils of Shadow that Sauron wove about himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
And while I knit I keep my gaze upon the mirky moor. From Wordnik.com. [Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems] Reference
Now grows midsummer mirky, and fallow falls the morn. From Wordnik.com. [The House of the Wolfings] Reference
Yer might be roundin 'the Isle o' Dogs on a mirky night. From Wordnik.com. [Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates] Reference
His forehead, covered with his curls, is as a mirky night. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III] Reference
Look out from the sunless boughs to the yellow-mirky east. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs] Reference
And the snow in the mirky midnoon across the lealand drive. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs] Reference
Likelier, it had but been relegated to some mirky recess of the shop. From Wordnik.com. [Yet Again] Reference
After that, the bog lay mirky and silent, with no record of the dead man that lay in its grip. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess] Reference
As a complexion unto her, the hue of soot doth serve; Her mirky colour is as dust on couriers 'feet upcast. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV] Reference
Robin glanced out of the window and saw that they were crossing the river in the mirky gloom of a London winter. From Wordnik.com. [The Yellow Streak] Reference
Don't forget that while driving in your automobile and even on mirky days, your skin is still unprotected to unsafe rays. From Wordnik.com. [eHow - Health How To's] Reference
The atmosphere was mirky and surcharged with rain, for the wild equinoctial storm which had held Maurice spell-bound had been raging over land and sea for many days. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Some filmmaking and lighting effects that had me wishing I was watching this in a theater or at least a DVD on my 57 "screen rather than a somewhat mirky VHS on a 25" TV. From Wordnik.com. [Home Theater Forum] Reference
A mist hung over the river, deepening the red glare of the fires that burnt upon the small craft moored off the different wharfs, and rendering darker and more indistinct the mirky buildings on the banks. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Twist] Reference
From whatever point you have it, the sight is most prodigious, but no doubt the subjective sense of the great ducal mansions and estates which neighbor the mirky metropolis of steel and iron has its part in heightening the dramatic effect. From Wordnik.com. [Seven English Cities] Reference
Often, in order to give Alexander Gordon a false sense of security, the garrison would be withdrawn for a week or two, and then in the middle of some mirky night or early in the morning twilight the house would be surrounded and the whole place ransacked in search of its absent master. From Wordnik.com. [The Red True Story Book] Reference
And indeed the morning had grown mirky and grey and threatening, and from far away the thunder growled, and the face of the Kite's Nest showed pale and awful against a dark steely cloud; and a few drops of rain pattered into the smooth water before them from a rag of the cloud-flock right over head. From Wordnik.com. [The House of the Wolfings] Reference
With CNN’s hiring of Snow the race to the mirky bottom continues. From Wordnik.com. [Snow to Join CNN - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
All the mirky night they rode. From Wordnik.com. [Ulf Van Yern and Other Ballads] Reference
It 's as mirky as hell's back door. From Wordnik.com. [Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates] Reference
It was a mirky night like this, with. From Wordnik.com. [Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates] Reference
Now he wendeth along the mirky pathway. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
And so passed this wet and mirky night of the. From Wordnik.com. [The war,] Reference
It thunders -- and from midnight's mirky cloud. From Wordnik.com. [Romantic Ballads, Translated from the Danish; and Miscellaneous Pieces] Reference
Dancing in mirky night, o'er fen and lake. From Wordnik.com. [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference
And touched the odors moist ’mong mirky shades. From Wordnik.com. [Lilith The Legend of the First Woman] Reference
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