The sodden tents hung dankly, black-grey in the gusty, rainy morning. From Wordnik.com. [From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War] Reference
The water smelled dankly of mud and winter, which I hadn't seemed to notice when I'd been in it. From Wordnik.com. [Longshot]
Chill sweat gathered in his armpits, beaded dankly on his slightly hollowed cheeks and square jaw. From Wordnik.com. [Web Of The Witch World]
The streets were still wet with early fog, and, turning in at the Presidio gate, the cypresses dripped dankly on their heads, and hung out cobwebs pearled with dew. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
We are clued in by the dankly hallucinatory style that "Fight Club" transpires somewhere to the left of the real world, like an emanation of the untrammeled male id. From Wordnik.com. [A Fistful Of Darkness] Reference
They hurried then through endless passages, some smoothly walled and artificially lighted, others rough-hewn in the solid rock, dankly odorous and in Stygian darkness. From Wordnik.com. ["Thia of the Drylands" by Harl Vincent, part 3] Reference
We all know that our politicians want to get on the peace bandwagon and even Brian Mulroney now says that his greatest priority is peace. dankly I think this is untrue. From Wordnik.com. [Looking for Trouble] Reference
Ryder braced himself to present a carefree jauntiness -- an air somewhat difficult to assume when one is trussed like a spitted bird, in a hot coffin space, with hair falling dankly over a steaming brow, with a collar like a string, and an indescribable pallor beneath the bronze of one's face. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortieth Door] Reference
His forelock drooped dankly over his brow; there was stubble on his chin; his eyes were red, like a dog's. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince and Betty] Reference
My candle, guttering wildly in the unaccustomed breeze blowing dankly through the chamber, was the sole illuminant. From Wordnik.com. [The Man with the Clubfoot] Reference
This isn't necessarily a bad thing, as it at least means the piece makes effective use of its setting, the dankly atmospheric Old Vic Tunnels. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
Running back to it he saw that the center of that lot was covered by a small pool scarcely half an inch deep, through which the grass was growing dankly. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man] Reference
By one of the sudden wind -- freaks so common in the story of the war, the gas-cloud was cleft in two by a swirling breeze, and it rolled dankly on, to right and left, leaving the central trenches clear. From Wordnik.com. [Bruce] Reference
The sky was cloudy, and a delicious feeling of autumn was in the air -- autumn that might turn to winter with a passing cloud, and the forest was dankly gloomy and grimly silent, save from the roaring stream which ran at times foam-white with speed. From Wordnik.com. [The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range] Reference
Around this improvised gallows a group of women sat, or rather squatted, in the mud; their ragged shifts and kirtles, soaked through with the drizzling rain, hung dankly on their emaciated forms; their hair, in some cases grey, and in others dark or straw-coloured, clung matted round their wet faces, on which the dirt and the damp had drawn weird and grotesque lines. From Wordnik.com. [I Will Repay] Reference
The dew is rising dankly from the dell — ’Twill moisten her! and thou shalt see the gashes. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
The house breathed dankly around us. From Wordnik.com. [Duma Key]
When the mornings dankly fall. From Wordnik.com. [Rose and Roof-Tree — Poems] Reference
The dew is rising dankly from the dell. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolt of Islam] Reference
The dew is rising dankly from the dell. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1] Reference
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