| 单词 | darkling |
| 例句 | All night they ran through the darkling wood, but as die sun came up the sound of a distant horn came faintly through the trees, and they heard the baying of a pack of hounds. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He pointed away over the land of Rohan into the darkling West under the sickle moon. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z His face was long, with a high forehead, he had deep darkling eyes, hard to fathom, though the look that they now bore was grave and benevolent, and a little weary. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The someone was standing beside the car, no more than a darker shape against the darkling sky. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He turned his tired gaze away from the darkling fields below and yawned, and then he sighed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Before them, darkling against a pallid sky, the great mountains reared their threatening heads. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The three peaks loomed before them, darkling in the twilight. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The Cleft, Cirith Ungol, was before him, a dim notch in the black ridge, and the horns of rock darkling in the sky on either side. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He waved his skinny arm towards the darkling mountains. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Far below, the deathless fires put out their glow and smoke on the darkling air, and even at this great height the clang of hammers could be heard in the snapping wind. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Her silver was trotting through the grass, to a darkling stream beneath a sea of stars. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Many woven cloths were hung upon the walls, and over their wide spaces marched figures of ancient legend, some dim with years, some darkling in the shade. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The sun was gold, the sky a darkling blue in the east. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The sheltered darkling water seems to suck up light, but I’ve seen that before. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The overall picture presented was of a much cheerier film than the gloomy, darkling entry that ended up in cinemas. Rogue One: Death Stars, plot holes and a darker side of Star Wars – discuss with spoilers 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z As he sang later, in a line much quoted in this collection of essays on his darkling oeuvre: "This is how you disappear." No Regrets: Writings on Scott Walker, edited by Rob Young - review 2012-07-27T21:55:02Z Her cadenzas lifted Mozart’s themes and gently prodded them into different idioms, refracting their scales through a contemporary prism into different, darkling keys. Review: At the NSO, a composer in delightful dialogue with Mozart Roe even makes a virtue of Keats's suburban upbringing, raised on the edgy "darkling thresholds" of London. John Keats: A New Life by Nicholas Roe – review 2013-07-12T15:30:11Z But to capture that detail the new print seems to have been digitally bleached and brightened; the deep shadows and darkling skies of the old version now seem oppressively cheerful. DVDs: Mythic Mash-Up in Feverish Color 2010-08-29T02:23:00Z The result isn’t just a literary quarterly; it’s a tour of the bright and darkling plain we call contemporary American literature. Review | Something to celebrate: Four literary gems that have survived the vagaries of publishing 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Across the United States this autumn, exhibitions and collection displays of historical treasures promise to elucidate our own darkling age. Seeking Historical Exhibits That Speak to the Here and Now 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z The most substantial work of the five is Yershon’s spare, pensive score for “Mr. Turner,” in which solo woodwinds cry out over an unstable harmonic background; it seems to pull tones from Turner’s darkling skies. Composing for Hollywood 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z You just can’t grasp the bejeweled, darkling purple and pink light emanating from the moody reveries of Venice he painted well on in his career except by standing before them. Critic?s Notebook: Paris Rediscovers Monet?s Magic at Grand Palais 2010-10-05T01:41:00Z He even gave us a new Solo scion, in the darkling form of Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren, to replace departing sardonic space scoundrel Han. Has JJ Abrams ruined plans to expand the Star Wars universe? 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Gotham also successfully conjures up the darkling eccentricities of Batman’s home town and its larger-than-life inhabitants without ever descending into the pantomime silliness of the worst screen adaptations. The Incredible Hulk, Jessica Jones and the best comic book TV shows ever 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The recessionary 1970s, for a long time derided culturally, in retrospect produced darkling riches across the board: in film, theater, music, television, fashion, dance, literature and art. Culture of Recession? Or Vice Versa? 2010-12-17T14:43:26Z The plump, glossy larvae of the darkling beetle, nicknamed “superworms” perhaps because of their size, are usually content to munch on wheat bran. How Superworms Make Styrofoam Into a Healthy Meal 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z While the mealworm may look like an unappetizing maggot, it is in fact the larvae of the darkling beetle, rich in protein, fat and fibre. French restaurant serves up food of the future: insects 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z Arriving at a cool Corot nude in a darkling landscape or a crisp Picasso nude combing her hair was like gulping fresh air in a miasma. Renoir’s Problem Nudes 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z It shows a man leaning on the wooden railing of a bridge, looking out on to a darkling blot of a fjord beneath a yellow sky smeared with red clouds of apocalyptic fire. How The Scream became the ultimate image for our political age 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Think of Wordsworth, The world is too much with us, Or Arnold: And we are here as on a darkling plain. Opinion | Trump Is Inspirational ... for Poetry 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z The hatchery is home to some of the insects who live a full life cycle, from eggs to adult darkling beetles, and will act as breeders for the next batch. Wriggle room: Beta Hatch’s insect farm grows millions of mealworms 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z “That was awesome,” said my son as we pulled up into camp in the darkling twilight. Mongolia: The Destination that Epitomizes Getting Away From It All 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Now we’re flat on our backs, as on a darkling plain, gasping in the dust. We deserved this, America — and now we have no idea what the hell to do about it 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Named for their nocturnal habits, darkling beetles like to feed on decaying material. The Bug-Eyed, Colorful World of Insect Vision 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z As the sun, traveling around the galaxy, bobs up and down through this darkling plane, it generates gravitational ripples strong enough to dislodge distant comets from their orbits, sending them hurtling toward Earth. Dark Matter’s Deep Reach 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z The Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who treasures his fragile ruling coalition above all else, is more apt to manipulate the darkling mood to his political advantage than to ease it. Israel’s One-State Reality 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z A Ball State biology professor who examined a jar of the bugs believed they were darkling beetles, a native of Africa and a widespread pest in the U.S. poultry industry. Farmers, haulers cited under new manure rules 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z And soon, still laughing, they extract His limpness from the darkling tide; They make the towel's roughness act On back and head and dripping side. To Your Dog and To My Dog 2012-05-22T15:16:52.220Z Named for their nocturnal habits, darkling beetles like to feed on decaying material. The Bug-Eyed, Colorful World of Insect Vision 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Place me where errant icebergs, anchored deep By chains of frost, a darkling vigil keep, Fixed in the pole's impenetrable wall, Dead to the warmer ocean's roving call! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, November 18, 1893 2012-04-12T02:00:26.587Z Presently she was driving again through the darkling streets, passing the Maypole, passing the quaint, low-browed shops, lit only by an oil lamp or a couple of candles. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z Far, far around, star-gleams are sparkling Amid the twilight space; And Earth, that lay so cold and darkling, Has veiled her dusky face. In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding 2012-03-26T02:00:41.847Z In the bedrooms of the cottager, the artisan, and the small tradesman, the infant at its mother's side too often awoke, like Milton's nightingale, "darkling"—but that "nocturnal note" was something different from "harmonious numbers." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z Named for their nocturnal habits, darkling beetles like to feed on decaying material. The Bug-Eyed, Colorful World of Insect Vision 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Beware, lest shades more darkling come, With gloomier writings on the wall. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, November 18, 1893 2012-04-12T02:00:26.587Z My life went darkling like the earth, nor knew it shone a star, To that dear Heaven on which it hung in worship from afar. It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:14.013Z Hawkesworth's joviality, darkling and satirical as it was, passed with Tom for lightness of heart. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z Ann sat up upon the gate, dark against vast masses of flaming crimson and darkling purple, and her eyes looked at Kipps from a shadowed face. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z The unsuspecting Bertie came home that night a little before one o'clock, keyed up for the usual withering sarcasm and darkling reproach. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z The causeway ran through it, a mere thread lipped by the darkling waves, and at the sight a grunt of relief broke from Badelon. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z The walk through the darkling woods to the village and the cold, clean air cleared his wits a little. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z O Richard! if my brother died, 'Twas but a fatal chance: For darkling was the battle tried, And fortune sped the lance. The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades 2012-02-16T03:00:03.167Z All the world that evening was no more than a shadowy frame of darkling sky and water and dripping bows about Helen. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z A pretty picture were these two girls--who loitered a little amongst the darkling flowers, while Tone was speaking his farewell. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z Passing through low grey streets, leaving on the left a huge and ornate pagoda, you enter a tangle of wild greenery--an ideal wood of immense cryptomerias darkling skyward after light. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z He marched up under the arch, through the darkling cloister, and tapped, gently but firmly, at the Dean's door. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z Clustered blueberries are drooped upon the mountains, and in the swamps, sometimes over quicksands, shows the darkling sheen of the high-bush huckleberry. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z In what forgetful heart As in a ca�on darkling, Slumbers the blissful art That set my heaven sparkling? Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z "You can see the river darkling below its surface, it does that before a change." A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z O! for some shadow-haunted stream Where tired eyes might fall asleep, And in the peace of darkling dream See Sorrow's pageant homeward creep, Feel angel hands with white caress Soothe eyelids dark with heaviness! Cornish Catches and Other Verses 2012-01-15T03:00:13.973Z And more: methought I saw that flood, Which now so dull and darkling steals, Thick, here and there, with human blood, To turn the world's laborious wheels. Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z III He bade his followers darkling down lay him at the door, That she might surely find him, as she stepp'd the threshold o'er. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z Hidden by some dusky wall, or creeping within darkling shadows of the ill-lighted streets, this poor neglected sizar watched, waited, lingered, listened there, for the only effort of his life which had not wholly failed. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z What makes the sea-birds, I have wondered, sometimes leave the rocks at the midnight hour, and go skimming alone through the darkling air, emitting that weird and plaintive wail of theirs? Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z The camp rested at the entrance of a wild gully, a view of which could be had, darkling away towards the east, from the hill on which the three friends now found themselves. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z First we had the sea, darkling now under the shadows of the giant hill, yet borrowing tints from the clouds. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z Here was Arnold's darkling plain, and the confused alarms and the ignorant armies clashing by night. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z She turned her head toward the darkling city, in whose realm of deepened shadow many new lights had begun to burn. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z The ghosts which rose From every darkling copse showed thin and pale— Thinner and paler far than those I left In agony; even as Pity seems to wear A thinner form than Fear. The Epic of Hades In Three Books 2011-11-16T03:00:28.060Z In the same: See what a languid glory binds The long dim chambers of the darkling West, While far below yon azure river winds Like a blue vein on sleeping Beauty's breast. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z "Good night", said cadaverous fellow-passenger, feebly walking out of darkling station. Mr. Punch in the Highlands 2011-11-01T02:00:23.677Z Now wastes of water heaving, drawing, Great darkling tracts of patterned restlessness, With whitened waves round rough rocks mawing And licking islands in their fierce caress. Poems - First Series 2011-10-28T02:00:21.917Z That beast Doth shrink to view its own deformity, And veils with darkling mists its Gorgon face. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z First thro' the gloom Of a dark grove I strayed—a sluggish wood, Where scarce the faint fires of the setting stars, Or some cold gleam of half-discovered dawn, Might pierce the darkling pines. The Epic of Hades In Three Books 2011-11-16T03:00:28.060Z Her very masts and rigging were seen for a time, darkling through the blaze. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z This was true enough, for though he was physically fit he dreaded leaving this haven of rest and apparent security for the darkling wood, in which his remorseless foes were probably searching for him. The Duke Decides 2011-09-14T02:00:47.307Z Then brave McGregor and his men left the barracks and hid in the darkling to the left and low down on the sands. Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z That beast, says the narrator, "Doth shrink to view its own deformity, And veils with darkling mists its Gorgon face." Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z Turret and spire and battlement were stamped sharp and grey against the darkling sky. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z Though they were strangers to us, yet, as their bodies dropped down into the darkling sea, many a tear was shed that our fellows scarce took pains to hide. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z Even Peterie heard it down in the darkling mine, swallowed a ball of potassium, and died on the spot. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z Now and then a bat flits past; now and then an owl hoots mournfully from some turret or chimney, round which the darkling ivy creeps. In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z It changed from green to gold, a band of light between the river and the darkling sky. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z But now the soft wild clamour of birds, the multifold perfume of the fields, the errant plum-petals swimming in the breeze, the long-armed trees reaching out over the darkling water, called to him in vain. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z The dull flush still spread overhead, but Jago Court lay darkling below, with scarce a sign of the ruinous back yards that edged it on this and the opposite sides, and nothing but blackness between. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z She leaned toward him, a slight shadow crossed her face as if memories laid a darkling wing for a moment there. The Girl From His Town 2011-08-05T02:00:50.677Z So depicted the gloomy artist might serve for tragedy's self—arms crossed, brows drawn, eyes darkling under the broad-brimmed beaver, with the plotter's night-black cloak swept round his person. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z No, Gentlemen, to allow that authority to be surrendered would be to abandon the vessel of state, without pilot or helm, and to suffer her to roll, darkling, down the current of her fate. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z Neither hypothesis suits very well with his duties as guide of the ghosts, whom he leads down darkling ways with his wand of gold.* Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z She chooses the darkling half of life, and waits her reward in the world “where light and darkness fuse.” The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z A clatter of descending footsteps, a man standing in a little darkling room, his hand upon his sword hilt. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z Under such a sky the sea seems to emulate the starry vault above, for in its darkling depths there is a marvellous display of gleaming coruscations. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z On just such a day as this Roland Dorrien sits moodily in his dreary, comfortless room, looking out into the darkling vista of rain and fog. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z Now wastes of water heaving, drawing, Great darkling tracts of patterned restlessness, With whitened waves round rough rocks mawing And licking islands in their fierce caress. The Three Hills And other Poems 2011-07-07T02:00:25.437Z We vainly searched the darkling sky for the dwindling star, faded from us now and gone from keenest sight. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z The snow caps shone with a ruddy glow, while the ancient glaciers suggested molten streams pouring from the heart of them to the darkling wood-belts below. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z Sometimes in midnight lanes I heard The twitter of a darkling bird, As hidden from the ashen moon, The pathos of his music stirred. Eight Harvard Poets 2011-06-26T02:00:08.617Z The plate glass made a darkling mirror for the passers-by: Joan could see that her refurbished travelling suit fitted her becomingly, even though it was a trifle pass�. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z While o'er the horizon darkling, The first faint star is sparkling, All prudence cold I spurn,— Or wounds or blossoms bringing, To-morrow I'll return! A Day with Robert Schumann 2011-06-21T02:00:28.690Z This flowering forest on the sea's verge, these deep streams, these lakes, these darkling meadows, had been created in the desert more than two centuries previously by the first of the Ptolemies. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z The crowd, darkling and undecided, pressed around them. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z Silent, thread-like streams flowed darkling under the tangled mass that roofed them. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z When presently they had gained the darkling peace of a long road between marsh-lands, Fowey resumed with his glasses his hateful cynicism. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z The swarming flies hummed on the putrid side, Whence poured the maggots in a darkling stream, That ran along these tatters of life's pride With a liquescent gleam. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z Lady Sarah was sitting alone in the darkling room. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z I'll plunge my brow, enamoured with voluptuousness Within this darkling ocean of infinitude, Until my subtle spirit, which thy waves caress, Shall find you once again, O fertile weariness; Unending lullabye of perfumed lassitude! The Flowers of Evil 2011-05-15T02:00:07.523Z Ah, in such tones do the far-wandering waves of the sea of eternity beat against the hearts of darkling mortals who stand on the shore and yearn to put forth! Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography 2011-05-14T02:00:08.440Z Victor knelt down, overpowered by reverence and rapture, before the noble soul, and lost himself in the darkling, weeping form, and in the weeping tones. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z With open robes and bodies agonised, Lost women writhed beneath that darkling sky; There were sounds as of victims sacrificed: Behind him all the dark was one long cry. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z Without, amidst the darkling shades of night, the she-panther crept from the gloomy haunting depths of the ravine, up to the very rim of the clearing. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z Ah, when thou shalt slumber, my darkling love, Beneath a black marble-made statuette, And when thou'lt have nought for thy house or alcove, But a cavernous den and a damp oubliette. The Flowers of Evil 2011-05-15T02:00:07.523Z But this time Julius was in the same softened state, because he had all the morning seen the angel playing and hovering in his darkling soul. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography 2011-05-14T02:00:08.440Z Across the ascending, darkling fields streamed the night-wind, and lonesomely swept on from wood to wood, and its ruffling fingers played with the plumage of the sleeping bird and the down of the whirring night-butterfly. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z At first we met the bitter storm and cloud, With little sunshine on the darkling mere, The waves were high, the icy winds were loud; The days were dark, the nights were full of fear. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z A symphony of crickets trilled away in the darkling rhododendron thickets. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z The firs stretched down long, pendulous, darkling boughs, and filled the air with their balsamic fragrance. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z Beyond stretched a darkling perspective touched at recurring intervals with the white spheres of lamps. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z Out in the darkling and still country, all his sorrows lingered in his breast beside their sighs. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z The thought of any sorrow darkling in the distance now, now that the solemn vows had been spoken, never entered into his mind. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z Indeed the darkling of the political horizon seems for a time to have quickened rather than discouraged men’s minds. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z The mountains in the east had dropped the snow from the darkling pines, but above, the towering balds rose in unbroken whiteness, imposed in onyx-like distinctness upon the azure sky. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z They replied with a return fire, there was a fusillade of shots, and the two boats sped in a darkling rush across the Sound. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z She stared up at the darkling sky with its grey promise of snow, and down the slopes of the mountain. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z He described with abandon and fire the tall pines, the still darkling river running beneath the cedars and birches; the cabins, antler crowned, and the little gardens of their dooryard. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z The blooms of the laurel in the darkling places were like a spangling of stars. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z The silver had already been stored for the night, the bosses of great bowls, flowered rims, and filagree edgings shining from darkling recesses. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z The dusk was already creeping down the darkling arches of the wooded hillsides. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z This darkling mood of his had only become manifest to her during the last three or four years of their life. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Well, from the heart of this London atmosphere I was suddenly transported in my vision to a darkling, solitary country lane as the dusk of a November evening closed upon it thirty long years before. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z An automobile—mark the irony!—became the instrument of darkling fate, and brought to this poor aborigine the end of all things, and the close of life.” The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z He swept his hand in the circuit that embraced the panorama of ridges showing the first touches of frost, the hills still darkling with black growth, the valleys and the shredded forest. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z The subway in the distance Rumbled like a gathering storm; The palisades across the Hudson Now were darkling in the falling shadows. The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z Or again it was as if he drew down the blind of a window that gave upon a landscape, grave, darkling, ominous, and faced the warm realities of a brightly illuminated room.... Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Sometimes Kate would walk on the road before the cottage, with her fair hands grasping Rover's silky coat, who would restrain his natural vivacity to guide the darkling steps of his little mistress. The Rival Crusoes The Ship Wreck also A Voyage to Norway; and The Fisherman's Cottage. 2011-01-06T03:00:54.123Z Rafe's answering stare was darkling, the district attorney's uncomfortable, while Tip's was impersonal. The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z He went out with the sergeant and, at once, as they followed the darkling paths of the garden, said: "That's the one!" 813 2010-12-28T03:00:13.553Z Oh! yonder I see a bright star sparkling, While all around lies cold and darkling. Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith 2010-12-26T03:00:20.460Z He sat darkling for a time and then hit the table with his fist so hard that the breakfast things seemed to jump together—to Marjorie's infinite amazement. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Hell recoils heart-stricken: horror worse than hell Darkens earth and sickens heaven; life knows the spell, Shudders, quails, and sinks—or, filled with fierier breath, Rises red in arms devised of darkling death. Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z She nodded, darkling devils of mischief under that cool smooth brow. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z She rose silently, and without wishing him "good night," walked away over the glistening gravel path and the darkling lawn to the garden gate. The Undying Past Ye heroes of Elysium, who have passed the darkling flood—ye happy souls, soon shall I join your band. Stories of the Olden Time (Historical Series—Book IV Part I) By four the fire was out, and the snow was piling high in the darkling twilight against tent and hut.... Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Her sad grey eyes gazed out into the grey melancholy of the darkling night. Small Souls The thunder of the near-by cataract deafened her, and the darkling shadows of the forest were thickly shot with unnerving suggestions. Stranded in Arcady I charge you that in the contest there be no darkling envy for the victor, but only true comradeship and that generosity which is the badge of noble minds. The Valiants of Virginia And this so brief and so bald a colloquy danced in letters of fire across the darkling descent of the enclosed stairs down to the ground-floor. Sinister Street, vol. 1 As we walked under the darkling hills I told him of that shadow which had so suddenly fallen upon me that day, and he at once gave it a name. The Great Discovery Finally chaos whirled down darkling and multitudinous, and Rollo knew no more. The Firebrand And the mossy, darkling forest, teeming with turkey and partridge, stretched just behind. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery The snow was not falling silently, clothing a sad and gloomy world in a mantle of white, and over the darkling moor a heavy mist was not rising, as is so frequently the case. Mr. Munchausen Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder An hour went by; the old ladies and the old gentlemen and the nurserymaids and the hoops faded away one by one under the darkling trees. Sinister Street, vol. 1 "The day goeth down red darkling, The moaning waves dash out the light, And there is not a star of hope sparkling On the threshold of my night." Faith and Unfaith And little Concha, looking abroad over the darkling hills, thought within her heart that her morning was surely coming. The Firebrand Again I dropped adown that darkling sea of death in life, and rose up again to find myself in a boat, floating, floating, on the wavelike ripples of a larger lake. The Day of His Youth Yet at the bottom of it all, shining up through darkling depths, was that fairy-gold of joy, like the gold crown on the head of the frog in the folk tale. Shadows of Flames A Novel Pauline hung upon his arm while they walked back to the Rectory through the darkling plantation. Plashers Mead A Novel On darkling man in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light divine! Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion Instead of the darkling escapades that used to distract and worry us, Sigurd became the best of company, in the depths of a winter night. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road Peak and mountain-wall were gleaming golden in the parting light, but down there in the kloof the darkling grey of evening had already fallen. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt All the west was gold above the darkling violet of the mountains. Shadows of Flames A Novel —ANONYMOUS The Horde of sleek ships arose in the west at twilight—gleaming slivers that reflected the dying sun as they lanced across the darkling heavens. The Ties That Bind In a little grove of cypress, From the city-walls remote, It darkling stood:—He faced Mahmood, And pointed to the spot. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 Beyond, he could see the darkling woods and the sky-glow of the city. The Invader The darkling plain in its solemn silence was favourable to meditation, and the return to his solitary home aroused in Renshaw a keen sense of despondency. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt Side by side they went rolling swiftly between the darkling hedges, across broad pasture lands that gave forth a dank, sweet country perfume of earth and grass. Shadows of Flames A Novel Was he still there beyond those darkling gates, fighting his unimagined war, alone? Black Amazon of Mars Then the Water-midden looked long and gravely at him out of darkling eyes. The Three Mulla-mulgars And with a sense of darkling superstition upon him the delivery of that message as he passed the threshold seemed to sound a note of ill augury. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion And as he looked, an edge of silver shone on the distant rim of the waters; and then the moon, misshapen, wizened and darkling, heaved sluggishly up from the deeps. The Destroying Angel Blow, blow, winding shells; And the watery fish, Deaf to the hidden bells, In the water splash; No streaming gold, no eyes, Watching along the waves, But far-blown shells, faint bells, From the darkling caves. Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems Thanis took Stark by steep and narrow ways, darkling now in the afterglow, where the city climbed and fell again over the uneven rock. Black Amazon of Mars The darkling shadows on the water, the play of sun and cloud on the distant uplands, completes the picture; sheep on the hill-side set up plaintive calls that echo over the Bay. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war October was advanced and, though it was hardly past four in the afternoon, the golden sunlight falling the length of the street was already darkling with the faded day. The Bright Shawl And then one darkling day, Jaq Merril and I stood on the thin methane snow that carpeted our Base's landing ramp, waiting under our own blue-black sky for the return of the Argonaut. The Peacemaker It was a dozen green-clad girls scattering wildly this way and that, olive-green aspen leaves tossing in a whirlwind, shuffling from pillar to post–from rock to darkling rock. Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl Love flames aloft in thousand eager sunspheres, Joy wooeth joy within the heart so warmly: Down from the darkling sky soft stars are shining. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II Comes a darkling to windward and the sea stirs uneasily; jets and spurts of broken water appear over the teeth and spit of rocky ledges. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war Light was over the darkling forests, and as it brightened the voice of the forest legions died away in the distance, and the battleground was deserted of all but the author of the fearful carnage. In the Brooding Wild Only the police themselves go darkling, and grope in the night for misdemeanants. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Its windows, too, save one softly reddened by a remote lamp, reflected only the darkling sky. John March, Southerner She seemed even thinner than when Nan had seen her last, and to Raven all the sorrows of woman were darkling in the anguish of her eyes. Old Crow A darkling patch, a blurred shadow, in the face of sea and sky, with a luminous curl of broken water astern. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war The relation, therefore, between capital and labor, which ought to be generous and confiding, is darkling, suspicious, unkindly, full of reproachful threats, and without concord or peace. The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War Mn.E. headlong, darkling, and groveling, originally adverbs, we have survivals of these endings. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary The shadows, how dense in the woods; the valleys, darkling already! The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories Staff abandoned argument and resting his forearms on the rail, stared sombrely out over the darkling waters for a moment or two. The Bandbox The bullet-hail tore the front ranks to shreds, but through the darkling smoke-cloud he saw other men come leaping, and knew that the game was up. Nuala O'Malley If farther through the wilds I go, I only fall upon the foe; I’ll couch me here till evening gray, Then darkling try my dangerous way.” Peggy Owen and Liberty The river foamed over rapids or ran darkling in pools and stretches. Gold Yet are they less than these— These village-lights, which I do scan Below me, or far out on darkling seas Those messages from man? The Lord of Misrule And Other Poems The kitchen smokes: the bed In the darkling house is spread: The great sky darkens overhead, 258 And the great woods are shrill. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) They arrived just as the evening was darkling, after a hard day's ride. Nuala O'Malley Both were fair: Like sister souls they seemed to be; And one was dreaming and asleep, And one bent down from Paradise To kiss with radiance in the deep The darkling lips and eyes. Collected Poems Volume Two He regards one now through the darkling panes with a gloomy animosity. New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism What did she think Of him whose hands at Love's command Made Life as honey o'er the brink Of Death drip slow, darkling and slow? Collected Poems Volume One Frances spoke with trembling lips, tears darkling in her eyes. The Rustler of Wind River Yet thought toward passion moved with dread, Like one who, hurrying to be wed, Steps, darkling, on the dead. Ioläus The man that was a ghost Only the billow and stream Of muscle and flank and mane Like darkling mountain-cataracts gleam Gripped in a Titan's rein. Collected Poems Volume Two Suddenly, as they sat in the darkling cabin, there appeared in the doorway a figure which seemed in the gloom to resemble an elderly man with a long grey beard. The Flamp, The Ameliorator, and The Schoolboy's Apprentice For a moment the huge man stood looking down darkling upon the girl. Carmen Ariza Swiftly they had retraced the steps of the stricken Louise even to the pier edge over the darkling Seine. Orphans of the Storm Through the darkling night, faintly visible in the feeble starlight—there was no moon—were driving shapes, a full score of them converging upon the little band. Slaves of Mercury Yet, as the whole world with their tramp Quivered, a signal-lightning spoke, A bugle warned our darkling camp, And, like a thunder-cloud, it woke. Collected Poems Volume Two When seamen lose their course among wind and waves and darkling clouds, they pray devoutly to the Queen of Heaven. The Chinese Fairy Book In and out among the glades she went, almost as brightly and musically as the brook whose sparkling and darkling course she followed. A Singer from the Sea Nothing except the darkling cover of pine woods. The Twins of Suffering Creek The gloom of the darkling forests, too, had passed into the sunlit parks of delight. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills We find him repeating often to himself the lines from the Vanity of Human Wishes:— 'Shall helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?' James Boswell Famous Scots Series His head was bent forward until his sharp chin touched his breast, and out from under his darkling brows a pair of little eyes flashed angrily and arrogantly. The O'Ruddy A Romance Like darkling birds her eyelashes Upon her cheek lay fluttering light. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems Wide Canal street, out under the darkling crimson sky, was resplendent with countless many-colored lamps. Dr. Sevier Even in this damp vault, With more completeness could the old Destroyer Have done his darkling work? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 The loftiest light Flashed from God's Face on Reason's orient verge Answers that bird-cry from the Heart of man— Poor Heart that, darkling, kept so long its watch— The auspice of the dawn. Legends of the Saxon Saints And here, as she passed through the darkling garden under the solid blackness of the yews, was an opportunity of making a further advance. The Wild Geese "How long ago was this?" he demanded, his face the picture of a darkling mood. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel The buggy was moving at a quiet jog along a “neighborhood road,” with unploughed fields on the right and a darkling woods pasture on the left. Dr. Sevier The day which had intervened between Phœbe's morning walk, and this darkling flight along the same road, had been full of agitation at the house of the Tozers. Phoebe, Junior Snake-like and supple, winding on and on Through courtly chambers darkling still they creep, Nor dare to face a people front to front; Let them stand up in light, and all is well! Legends of the Saxon Saints Come to us, Lord, as the daylight comes When the darkling night has gone, And the quickened East is tremulous With the thrill of the wakened dawn. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul Ah, that René!" exclaimed the woman, her face darkling with passion, "he is Victor's brother, and he is no good. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country O soul dismayed! when darkness fills The dismal days with darkling ills, Rest in the calm the promise gives, That Christ, thy Light and Glory, lives. Hymns from the East Being Centos and Suggestions from the Office Books of the Holy Eastern Church Of the bonfires that blazed that night on every hill, and cast their lurid light across the darkling lake? Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure Scott first wrote "blindfold" in place of "darkling." Lady of the Lake The sun had already sunk over the crest of the cliffs, and I could just see the mounted savages through the darkling gloom—still fallowing as fast as their horses could gallop. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness The stars were shining overhead, the leaves rustling on all sides in the soft wind—not a soul to be seen in the long line of darkling road. The Perpetual Curate The wind blew soft from the west, and the vault of heaven might have been hollowed out of the darkling depths of an amethyst of inconceivable splendour and planetary size. The Dop Doctor The season is autumn, and the time is sunset; the shadow of the great tower falls darkling far over the loch, and already crimson streaks of cloud are ranged along the hill-tops. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure O Richard! if my brother died, 'Twas but a fatal chance; For darkling was the battle tried,note And fortune sped the lance. Lady of the Lake A slight darkling upon her brow, accompanied by a pallor and compression of the lips, indicated pain. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Mine was the woman to me, darkling I found her; Haling her dumb from the camp, held her and bound her. The Seven Seas To her confusion, no answering gleam illumined the young man's darkling eyes. The Panchronicon O far away is gliding The pleasant Oxus’s stream, I see the green glades darkling, I see the clear pools gleam. A Victor of Salamis As I stood irresolute, but keenly watchful, I saw the sudden purple flame of a match leap up in the darkling room. Border Ghost Stories The swift Southern night, robed in rose and violet, already veiled the forest; and the darkling water deepened into purple. A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories And ere they reached it, Elizabeth was weeping with dismay, and the darkling ground about them was white and brittle and active with the pelting hail. Tales of Space and Time They float ethereal, unearthly white Upon the bosom of the darkling mere, Raying the dusk with slumbrous silver light— Eidolons of lost moons erst mirrored there. The Path of Dreams Poems “Where the grasses weep O'er his darkling bed, And the glow-worms creep, Lies the weary head Of one laid deep, who cannot sleep: The unremembered dead.” Humorous Ghost Stories If we are here "as on a darkling plain, swept by confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night," we can at least be "true to one another." Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Then answer made the young Marsk Stig, With a darkling brow and kindling eye: “’Tis a saying true and an old one too That insult follows injury. Marsk Stig a ballad And the odorous limes were dim above As we leant on a drooping bough; And the darkling air was a breath of love, And a witching thrush sang “Now!” Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature Not that my desire failed, but aid came not to ferry me over the darkling waters. Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus "Adrian fled from the wedding festivities, as you may remember, for you were our honoured guest at the time, and greatly displeased at his absence," he resumed, after a few seconds of darkling reflection. The Light of Scarthey The thunder of the great guns broke suddenly upon that stillness which only dawn knows, and their discharges flashed redly on the darkling slopes. World's War Events, Vol. I Then hail answered hail as one Battleship after another rose towering above them into the darkling sky, and one by one passed into silence astern. The Long Trick Through heaven the stars begin to peep, To comfort us that darkling pine Because those fairer lights of thine Have set into the Sea of Sleep. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature He saw a lonely little town far off upon the verge of Lapland night, leagues and leagues across a darkling plain, dark itself and little and lonely in the gloomy splendour of a Northern sky. The House with the Green Shutters He was leaning against the doorpost, attired in a cool suit of white linen, his hands in his pockets, the expression of his handsome darkling young face a most curious one. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim The warriors scoured the country miles around, Seeking for sign or trail, but naught they found: The murderer left behind no clue or trace More than a vampire's flight through darkling space. Indian Legends of Minnesota In spite of his nearness he still remained invisible to her against the background of the darkling wood. The Long Trick You night moths that hover where honey brims over From sycamore blossoms, or settle or sleep; 119 You glowworms, shine out, and the pathway discover To him that comes darkling along the rough steep. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature With some few chosen knights, King Horn and Athulf set out, and the ship drove darkling through the sea, they knew not whither. Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race Skippy rose with dignity and went to the window, gazing out a moment into the darkling night where unknown myriads of mosquitoes lurked all unconscious of the doom impending over them. Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World Not clearer through the density Of darkling woods, do I behold The intervening flecks of gold Reveal unseen intensity. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Though far thou art and darkling, Yet art thou near. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Then upward darkling through the copse I push my eager homeward way, Through glades of drowsy violets That never see the golden day. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature That was a dreadful struggle, as the combatants, in deadly conflict, swayed up and down the hall, overturning tables and benches, trampling underfoot dishes and goblets in the darkling wrestle for life. Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. The Night of the Long Knives ALDRICH: Somewhere in some faked nature place, In Wonderland, in Nonsense Land, Two darkling shapes met face to face, And bade each other stand. The Re-echo Club Yea, for thy love, through darkling realms of night I followed thee, sharing thy fearful flight Unseen. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman She let it stay, yet looked away from him, up through the darkling branches, and distressfully shook her head. Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana Soldiers with the white strings of canteens crossing their breasts were journeying to and from a stream that ran, darkling, out of the tangled woodland on their right. Special Messenger Into the cups already sped By Olga's hand distributed The fragrant tea in darkling stream, And a boy handed round the cream. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse T. ALDRICH: Somewhere in some faked nature place, In Wonderland, in Nonsense Land, Two darkling shapes met face to face, And bade each other stand. The Book of Humorous Verse When late upon her parting day smiled chill, Pensive she gazed upon the darkling land, With lingering feet o’er-passed the shining strand, And silent sat on an o’erhanging ledge, The sea o’erlooking. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman The clouds of disfavor darkling in some places, but brightening in others, and, on the whole, he hoped and believed, breaking. Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana Tall underbrush flanked the slopes; little streams ran darkling through the thickets; the ground was moist,40 even on the ridges; and she could not hope to cover the deep imprint of her horse’s feet. Special Messenger It was kept morally, rather as a Fast than a Feast, enabling Mrs. Wilfer to hold a somber darkling state, which exhibited that impressive woman in her choicest colors. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV Dark are the dark and darkling days Winding the webbed and winsome ways, Homeward she creeps in dim amaze— Sleep, little babe, sleep on! The Book of Humorous Verse III Bethink thee of the vales, With their birds and blossoms fair— Of the darkling nightingales, That charm the starry air In the south—the gentle south— Ah! our own dear home is there. The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith She hurried at his words, beset with fears, For there were sleeping dragons all around, At glaring watch, perhaps, with ready spears— Down the wide stairs a darkling way they found.— Keats: Poems Published in 1820 I imagine that at windless nightfall the rich, throbbing organ-tones of the Indian Ocean surf toll all the darkling glades. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer With trump elephantine and slow, Tread on through word-swamps, dank and darkling; But no, most decidedly no, You must not be sparkling! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 15, 1893 The morning was clear, colourless, grey overhead; the dock like a sheet of darkling glass crowded with upside-down reflections of warehouses, of hulls and masts of silent ships. Chance A Tale in Two Parts Drew up his mantle fold on fold, And strung his lute with strings of gold, And bound the sandals to his feet, And strode into the darkling street. Alcyone Night is a fearful book, And in her darkling skies Did Seers and Magi look, Searching earth's destinies. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Again Jan could imagine the flat land around them as his native Holland, with the Zuider Zee sparkling to the west where here the desert stretched under darkling clouds. Wind Then he uprears darkling altars to the Stygian king, and lays whole carcases of bulls upon the flames, pouring fat oil over the blazing entrails. The Aeneid of Virgil The present metaphor is taken from the troubled and darkling aspect of the sea before a storm. The Iliad of Homer (1873) It crossed rivers, it clove through darkling woods, it traversed wide and lonely wastes, and led past walled towns, worn by the feet of marching legions, scored with the grooves of wheels. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain Or is it among those ancient trees Where the tremulous shadows move soft and darkling? The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Vague and indistinct, yet cast in stereoscopic outline, a gigantic city was lined against the darkling sky. The Street That Wasn't There Then he resumed his slow walk, turning over and over in his perplexed mind the questions of grace and nature, and praying for light in the obscure ways where reason groped darkling. A Child's Book of Saints The darkling gloom had silvered into lustrous light, the birds were beginning again their mad midnight melodies. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance There were fountained hills, and dreamy darkling woods, and old Indian graves, and a dancing stream, across which lay a petrified tree, and everywhere a little travelled land. Memoirs The flame of roses that burns on every handbreadth of untilled ground and springs like a rainbow above the cloud of every darkling roof or wall. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida Love was never yet without The pang, the agony, the doubt, Which rends my heart with ceaseless sigh, While day and night roll darkling by. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 Leave alone the darkling eyes Fixed upon the moving skies, Cross the hands upon the bosom, there to rise To the throb of the faith not spoken. Ionica And so now, although the town lies blue and darkling on her hills, innumerable spots of the bright element shine far and near along the pavements and upon the high façades. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) They long had watched her white And care-worn cheeks; but now they knew her fears And wept with her to see the darkling storm-clouds lower. Rowena & Harold A Romance in Rhyme of an Olden Time, of Hastyngs and Normanhurst There is no dingle dell, where the harebell and the anemone grow, where the pine and the spruce stand darkling and sweet peace seems to fold her wings and sit brooding, but danger is there. Black Bruin The Biography of a Bear Reader, attend!—whether thy soul Soars fancy's flight beyond the pole, Or darkling grubs this earthly hole, In low pursuit; Know, prudent, cautious self-control Is wisdom's root. Robert Burns Low on the mud the darkling fishes grope. Silverpoints He kept mumbling prayers with his lips; but as he looked upon me darkling, it did not seem as if prayer were uppermost in his heart. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) You shall guide the darkling prow, Kneeling thus—and far inland— You shall touch the storm-beat brow Gently as a spirit-hand. The New Morning Poems Who will wonder at the shade Of sorrow darkling on his troubled brow, As he reflects on what may not be now? The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic Bethink thee of the vales, With their birds and blossoms fair— Of the darkling nightingales, That charm the starry air In the south—the gentle south,— Ah! our own dear home is there. The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself Common-sense was extinguished, and Good Taste Did wonder darkling on the verge of doom. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 21, 1893 It concludes with these lines: "Reader, attend—whether thy soul Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole, Or darkling grubs this earthly hole In low pursuit; Know—prudent, cautious self-control, Is Wisdom's root." How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Glorious and splendid, giant-like I stood On a white cliff, topped by a darkling wood. The Magic City And Ney fled darkling.—Silence in the ranks! The Bon Gaultier Ballads There is comfort, too, in not being forced to go darkling to bed, like Childe Roland to the tower, but to put out the light from the floor above. Journeys to Bagdad Sooner or later, far out in the night, The stars shall over me wing their flight; Sooner or later my darkling dews Catch the white spark in their silent ooze. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Under me the mass seethes darkling, and from it I rise to light and air. The Silver Crown Another Book of Fables The very stars seemed to hang lower from the darkling mystery overhead; he felt light enough, in his boundless content, to rise to them and drink at their twinkling founts. Dixie Hart The woman stared up at the darkling sky with its gray promise of snow, and down the slopes of the mountain. The Literary World Seventh Reader Between me and the wished for gîte there lay sixteen miles of hilly road—darkling every minute faster. Border and Bastille Now the clouds with lurid flashes gathered darkling, thick and high, Lines of cranes like gleams of laughter sailed across the gloomy sky. Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse There are moments when the music of "Pelléas," the fine fluid line of sound, the melodic moments that merge and pass and vanish into one another, become the gleaming rims that circumscribe vast darkling forms. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers I'll say my longing was To see the moon appear O'er yonder darkling hill; Yet 'tis on thee mine eyes would gaze their fill. Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan The sun may shine upon the clod till it is warm, Warm for its own poor darkling self to live. Making the Most of Life Ash Hollow looked a darkling descent, the thin pulsations of the little leaves of ash trees flickering along its sides. The Emigrant Trail When the wicked o'er it goes, stands the bridge all sparkling; And his mind bewilder'd grows, and his eye swims darkling. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life The darkling woods, scarce trodden by the foot of man, no longer possessed the mystic charm of childhood's fancy. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon You night-moths that hover where honey brims over From sycamore blossoms, or settle or sleep; You glowworms, shine out, and the pathway discover To him that comes darkling along the rough steep. Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" Before the shrine of dawn, wherethrough The lark rang rapture as she flew, It flashed and fired the darkling dew: And all that heard With love or loathing hailed anew A new day's word. A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI She sat close at his back, a blanket drawn over her knees against the intruding wet, peering out at the darkling cleft. The Emigrant Trail I did not spy upon the darkling motions of Mrs. Ventris. Lore of Proserpine Faint red lights here and there revealed nothing of the tunnel; they but lent mystery to dimly seen arches and darkling bastions, fleeting by the roaring train. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story The Cardinal could believe that the Queen, who, as he supposed, had given him a darkling interview, would entrust him with such a commission, for an article which she had notoriously refused. Historical Mysteries So pleads the gentlest heart that lives, Whose pity, pitiless for all Whom darkling terror holds in thrall, Toward none save miscreants yearns, and gives Alms of warm tears—and gall. A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI She could see the rock, rising like the clumsy form of a dismantled galleon from the waters of a darkling sea. The Emigrant Trail What hearts were ours who loved him, should we pray That night would yield him back to darkling day, Sweet death that soothes, to life that spoils and smites? Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI What," I once suggested to my wife, in a very darkling mood—"what if they should gradually grow apart, and end in rejoicing that they had never been allowed to join their lives? A Pair of Patient Lovers Dorothy kissed him, and cried over him, and made a wail against their darkling fate. The President A novel His fiery spirit of sight Endures no curb of change or darkling time. A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI It was as if a child brought up in a garden had unexpectedly looked into a darkling mountain abyss. The Emigrant Trail Not the prow that labours, helpless as a storm-blown leaf, Where the rocks and waters, darkling depth and beetling height, Rage with wave on shattering wave and thundering reef on reef. Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI Let us lift up the strength of our hearts in song, And our souls to the height of the darkling day. Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) In his company went a pessimist who took darkling views of humanity in the lump, and particularly what fractions of the lump had gotten themselves locked up. The President A novel Stars fulfilled the desire of the darkling world as with music: the starbright air Made the face of the sea, if aught may make the face of the sea, more fair. A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI She was engrossed in recognizing the ravine, scanning the darkling hollows for the dwarf tree. The Emigrant Trail Day by darkling day, Overpassing, bears away Somewhat of the burden of this weary May. A Dark Month From Swinburne's Collected Poetical Works Vol. V For from no sunlit shrine darkling it came. Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) We saw thee shine in youth and beauty’s pride, And virtue’s light, that beams beyond the spheres; But like the sun eclips’d at morning tide, Thou left’st us darkling in a world of tears. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham All secrets once through darkling ages kept Shone, sang, and smiled to think how long they slept. A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI Shall pagan priest, their errors breeding, With darkling hosts, and flags unfurled, Spread their delusions o'er the world, Though Jesus on the Cross hung bleeding? The Story of the Hymns and Tunes We noticed more than one stolid face darkling as they glanced aside. Great Sea Stories In thy likeness I come to thee darkling, a daughter whose dawn and her even are the same. Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) Reader, attend—whether thy soul Soars fancy’s flights beyond the pole, Or darkling grubs this earthly hole, In low pursuit; Know, prudent, cautious self-control, Is wisdom’s root. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Reader, attend! whether thy soul Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole, Or darkling grubs this earthly hole, In low pursuit; Know prudent, cautious self-control Is wisdom's root. Robert Burns How To Know Him You have caught the gleam and glow Where the darkling waters flow, Liza May, Liza May. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar Thick clouds overcast the sky, and there seemed no dividing line between the darkling sea and the windy banks that shrouded the horizon. Great Sea Stories So he spake on a day to the women, and said to the gold-clad one: "How wottest thou in the winter of the coming of the sun When yet the world is darkling?" The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs When disappointment snaps the clue of hope, And thro’ disastrous night they darkling grope, With deaf endurance sluggishly they bear, And just conclude that “fools are fortune’s care.” The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham But heaven was as red iron, slumberless, And had no heart to bless; And earth lay sere and darkling as distraught, And help in her was nought. Songs of the Springtides and Birthday Ode Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III The lone white star of evening comes out among the hills, And in the darkling forest begin the whip-poor-wills. Ballads of Lost Haven A Book of the Sea We noticed more than one stolid face darkling as they glanced aside. Great Sea Stories A fashion strange enow, That the feet of the fair queen's-daughter must forth to follow the plough, Be the acres bright or darkling! The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs One evening when the Southern Cross was lifting above the darkling sea, and the violins were crooning something with a weird burden to it, Doughty mused aloud. Days of the Discoverers I too have my unwritten date, My gypsy presage; And on the brink of fall I wait The darkling message. More Songs From Vagabondia The sailmaker was a bearded Finn, with a heavy, darkling face and the secret eyes of a faun. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories Thick clouds overcast the sky, and there seemed no dividing line between the darkling sea and the windy banks that shrouded the horizon. Great Sea Stories What unutterable loneliness spoke to the soul in those unknown leagues of tossing sea! how far the eye wandered unchecked, searching vainly for aught to rest upon other than glistening surge or darkling hollow! When Wilderness Was King A Tale of the Illinois Country Oh, river! darkling river! what a voice Is that thou utterest while all else is still! The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention And out came the frank little hand, and he looked on it, with a darkling smile, as it lay in his own sinewy but slender grasp; and she said with a smile—'Good-bye.' The House by the Church-Yard True, the skipper had not yet lifted a fist to him; but in this case darkling glances served quite as well as blows. The Harbor Master Where the twin stars, lights of this lower sphere, Which o'er my darkling path their radiance shed? The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch The hopeless aspect of its moonlit and darkling calm struck me so forcibly that I did not even ask how he proposed to get us out there. Romance Betrayed by my accomplices, I found myself, as it were, a shred of flotsam adrift in the darkling streets. Berry And Co. Upon these lukewarm and conforming souls Mrs. Nitschkan cast a darkling eye. The Black Pearl Their dawn, scarce lovelier for the gleam of tears, Filled half the hollow shell 'twixt heaven and earth With sound like moonlight, mingling moan and mirth, Which rings and glitters down the darkling years. Sonnets, and Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol V. How hast thou dried my every source of joy, And left me to drag on a life of tears, Through darkling days and melancholy nights. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch At length an enemy, darkling, lifted weapons for destroying. The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service He himself slept ill, absorbed in regret and darkling conjecture. The Disentanglers Trembling and anxiously He searched their couch of straw; with headlong haste Trod round his stinted limits, and, low bent, Groped darkling on the earth:—no child was there. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate. Familiar Quotations Here and there in the glorious landscape occurs a nymph, the naked flesh of whom burns with the reflected fire; here and there are lovers, and among the darkling trees beholders of the old romance. A Wanderer in Venice Sleep, crop and herd! sleep, darkling thorpe and croft, 30 Safe from the weather! Browning's Shorter Poems Better it is eternally to be conversant with Immortals, richly, nobly, well seen in wealth of grain, than to be homekeepers in a darkling cave. The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological A great gray owl, which had passed the daylight in some obscure corner, launched darkling forth on the air and winged hither and thither,—once or twice fanning the sleeper's face with silent pinions. Idolatry A Romance Fate, take a bond of, 55. --, roll darkling down the torrent of, 166. Familiar Quotations "Mr. Poynter!" called a voice from the darkling trees behind him. Diane of the Green Van To him nature is the glass through which he sees darkly and often with a darkling mind, the all-pervasive Presence; it is the veil—the veil that covers the face of God. Preaching and Paganism With them the p. 181Sileni and the keen-sighted Slayer of Argus live in dalliance in the recesses of the darkling caves. The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological There was in Dempsey's inscrutable, darkling mien a cold, simmering anger, as of a man unfairly hounded, he hardly knew why. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned The causeway ran through it, a mere thread lipped by the darkling waves, and at the sight a grunt of relief broke from Badelon. Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France It lay ahead, a fire-blot in the darkling swamp, a primitive mirage of primitive folk, of palmetto wigwams and log-wheel fires among the live oaks of a lonely island. Diane of the Green Van He was ferried in a big, empty boat across the darkling bay to the train that stood backed down on the mole waiting for him and the half dozen other passengers. The Lookout Man We have said that the sun would in time become as icy cold and dead as the moon, and then the earth would wander darkling in the voids of space. Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work Like their dwellings the rabbits Deep in darkling retreats, This weird widow inhabits Subterranean seats. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 29, 1892 I waited, darkling, till the dawn Should touch me into bloom, While all my being panted To outpour its first perfume, When, lo! a paler flower than mine Had blossomed in the gloom! The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics Diane had forded shallow streams and followed bright-winged birds, lunched by a silver lake set coolly in the darkling shade of cypress and found a curious nest in the stump of a tree. Diane of the Green Van The lake lay darkling there, hooded with shadows like a nun, the snow banks at the edge indicating the band of white against the calm face. The Lookout Man A long lane of darkling water lay wedged between, like that narrow canal in Venice which dozes between two shadowy piles, and high in air is secretly crossed by the Bridge of Sighs. Israel Potter He turned around, and his dull eyes lighted up at sight of this darkling vision of beauty—for Mr. Parmalee was by no means the only gentleman with the good taste to admire handsome Sybilla. The Baronet's Bride I seemed an aimless wanderer doomed to grope In vain among the darkling years and die. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Mountain rill, that darkling, sparkling, Winds and wanders down the hill, ’Mid the rushes, whispering, murmuring, Oh that I were like the rill! Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century Dan, searching out the lights that were just beginning to blink on the darkling shores, found the glimmering lanterns of Mrs. Owen's landing. A Hoosier Chronicle It should reach down into the ravine, where humid ferns and rocks met plants that love darkling ground. Lazarre Death is near, and darkling night creeps upon mine eyes—my children, my children, no more your mother is—no more.—Farewell, my children, long may you view this light! The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. I groped and listened through the darkling grove, Peering with eager eyes among the trees, And calling as I peered with anxious voice One darling name. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems For one blissful moment standing Paused she there; Fell the lamplight from the landing On her hair, And her eyes, like starlight sparkling, Clear were seen, But, alas! the staircase darkling Lay between. Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century We knew the underneath of every laurel-bush, the shape of its bunches of darkling branches, the green dust that our small restless bodies rubbed off from its under twigs. Red Pottage There she lurked darkling, and he, lunging out, swept with his sword's point the very edge of her gown. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay She rose, and moved towards the darkling front of the Castle. My Friend Prospero Weary the hours; but the sun at last Went down to his lodge in the west, and fast The wings of the spirits of night were spread O'er the darkling woods and Wiwâstè's head. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems I unfastened the chain, and, leaping over the limp and prostrate form of the unhappy Tibbles, fled darkling down the deserted street. The War of the Wenuses Then let my doubtful footsteps darkling stray, Thy next fair beam will set me on my way: E'en take thy freedom, whether rough or kind, I came not forth to quarrel with the wind. Poems, &c. (1790) Wherein It Is Attempted To Describe Certain Views Of Nature And Of Rustic Manners; And Also, To Point Out, In Some Instances, The Different Influence Which The Same Circumstances Produce On Different Characters Even here in Troy, Aias was erst my rock,II 2 From darkling fears and ’mid the battle-shock To screen me with huge might: Now he is lost in night And horror. The Seven Plays in English Verse But now to listless indolence a prey, Stretch'd on his couch, he sad and darkling lay; As not unlike in venom and in size, Close in his hole the hungry spider lies. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Planet after planet sparkling, All through the night, Down on Earth, their sister darkling, Shed faithful light. A Celtic Psaltery The vehicle was soon lost among the darkling streets. The Mississippi Bubble Phosphorescence 1st Kelpie— Sparkling and darkling, dust of the milky way, Shifting and drifting, firefly legions at play; Fading and glowing, lights of a starry maze, Coming and going, drift of a luminous haze. The Last West and Paolo's Virginia But still some power doth his foot recall From stumbling down to Hades’ darkling hall. The Seven Plays in English Verse And these were moments when the accustomed vision of the land alarmed him, and the wild domed hills and darkling woods seemed symbols of some terrible secret in the inner life of that stranger—himself. The Hill of Dreams Blessed are they whom darkling truths may grieve, but not distract; whom stormy revelations beat upon, but cannot shake. Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters The travelers alighted, Henriette among the first, alarmed by the glare they had beheld from the windows of the cars as they rushed onward across the darkling fields. The Downfall The very wood of that chamber seemed suddenly old and darkling, and in the air a thick tension brooded like the coming of a storm. Oberheim (Voices) Where are they that should protect thee In this darkling hour of doubt? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841 Whether thy soul Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole; Or, darkling, grubs this earthly hole In low pursuit, Know—prudent cautious self-control Is wisdom's root. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; 35And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems Must helpless Man, in Ignorance sedate, Swim darkling down the Current of his Fate? The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two Rambler papers (1750) The oriole's fledglings fifty times Have flown from our familiar elms; As many poets with their rhymes Oblivion's darkling dust o'erwhelms. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell And yet there dwells Within thy sylvan solitudes A memory which darkling broods And all thy witchery dispels. The California Birthday Book The strangely living lips, the dusky hollows where thoughtful eyes gleamed darkling. Out of the Ashes But as the waxing moon Goes thin and darkling for awhile, then rounds The crescent's rims with splendors, so this Queen Hath lost not queenliness. Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala Now we believe, he knows, sees all is well; How God had stayed his will and shaped his way, To bring the light to those that darkling dwell With gains that life's devotion well repay. The Personal Life of David Livingstone And more; methought I saw that flood, Which now so dull and darkling steals, Thick, here and there, with human blood, To turn the world's laborious wheels. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell You night-moths that hover where honey brims over From sycamore blossoms, or settle or sleep; You glowworms, shine out, and the pathway discover To him that comes darkling along the rough steep. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. You that must travel with a weary load Along this darkling, labyrinthine street— Have men with torches at your head and feet If you would pass the dangers of the road. The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala They form an immense plain, sloping and darkling, with brown undulations under the blue which now alone is becoming green. Light And there the vista leads of lessening doors, And there the summer sunset's golden gleam Along the line of darkling portrait pours, And warms the polish'd oak or ponderous beam. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 366, April 18, 1829 In cities high the careful crowds Of woe-worn mortals darkling go, But in these sunny solitudes My quiet roses blow. Poems Household Edition Once, for all the darkling sea, You your voices raised how clearly, Striking in when tempest sung; Hoisting up the storm-sail cheerly, Life is storm—let storm! you rung. John Marr and Other Poems Helen blushed and frowned, and looked up into the darkling heaven of her parasol; and then it occurred to her that her wisest plan would be to laugh. Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) In them gathers a sort of darkling storm, and flashes emerge from them. Light The shadows grew long and spread over the land until the whole vast country lay darkling under the coming night. The Phantom Herd Beautiful! beautiful!—thou shalt feel Their eloquent music from thee steal Those darkling thoughts, that should mournfully twine With the light, the life, and the joy—now thine. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 482, March 26, 1831 The skies grew darkling, and there went a rumour, "The thing is off; he will not fly to-day;" And forth we wandered, some in rare ill-humour, But not, oh, not the bard. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 14, 1914 Compare me with him, who stands scowling and darkling! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 15, 1890 As with the sun, would my soul go forth to its birth— O’er the darkling sea, to the west—to the light, to the light! Fires of Driftwood Ah! that heartless, cold expression All my being terrifies— Though my darkling fear is lessened By thy frank and honest eyes. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes It was a nasty situation; but Texas, accustomed to perils, was as brave as he was wicked; and he looked his darkling fate in the face with admirable coolness and intelligence. Overland The path dips at once and runs steeply down, till it reaches the bottom of the dell, along which a quick brook runs darkling. Nancy "I hear water," I said, and presently we came to it, where it hurried darkling across the trail. The Maid-At-Arms Long after he had smoked out his pipe, and when the bats were abroad, curiosity dominated his complex hesitations, and he stole back into his darkling sitting-room. The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes For those sweet stars the Pleiades, That glitter in the darkling trees; O for a lovelorn taper! Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume II. Come in thy beauty! 'tis my love, Lost in far-wandering desire, Hath in the darkling deep above Set stars and kindled fire. Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume I. What dull stone that ever lived darkling in a mine is fit to be named even in metaphor with this pale yet brilliant arch that so softly leans above us? Nancy Life's faithful fire in Love's heart burns the clearer With all that was, is and draws darkling nearer. Poems New and Old The furry fluff has ceased to fall, and the sky is darkling and the night advances, dragging the horizon up with it like a heavy, deadly curtain. A Mere Accident She peered out of the darkling window, through the stirring tendrils, for some time, and then went very cautiously and opened the bedroom door and listened…. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth Blow, blow, winding shells; And the watery fish, Deaf to the hidden bells, In the water splash; No streaming gold, no eyes, Watching along the waves, But far-blown shells, faint bells, From the darkling caves. Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume I. His attitude relaxed a little, the Schema became for a time a mere symbol, a point of departure, and he stared out of the window at the darkling night. Love and Mr. Lewisham The breeze shall o'er me weave a leafy shroud, And I shall slumber in the shadowy dell— Till God shall rend the spirit's darkling cloud, And give it wings of light. Poems He plunged past Simpson and was gone down the darkling alley. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Outside, darkling the whole room, a single leaf of giant Virginian creeper tapped unheeded on the pane. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth No one meets her at the railway station, no one at the door of the sombre house where her carriage stops--no one until she has passed up stairs into a darkling parlor. Not Pretty, but Precious When the last echo of the boatman's horn had melted among the darkling hills, he turned as instinctively as a sun-worshipper faces the east and drank in another musical refrain. Round Anvil Rock A Romance And all the way down I marked the rugged sea-board slumber darkling, afar or near, with never, alas! one friendly light. The Purple Cloud They tell of tales of mystery, Of darkling deeds of woe;But no! such doings might not brook The holy streamlet’s flow. Andromeda and Other Poems He sat with a darkling face, gnawing at his knuckles and looking down over London. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth Together we twain on the tides abode five nights full till the flood divided us, churning waves and chillest weather, darkling night, and the northern wind ruthless rushed on us: rough was the surge. Beowulf And slow and soft, and soft and slow, From darkling earth and darkened sky Wide wings of gloom waved to and fro, And spectral shadows flitted by. Poems: Patriotic, Religious It was kept morally, rather as a Fast than a Feast, enabling Mrs Wilfer to hold a sombre darkling state, which exhibited that impressive woman in her choicest colours. Our Mutual Friend As though, forsooth, in darkling realms and woe Our life were lying till should dawn at last The day-spring of creation! On the Nature of Things It had crept upon him very gradually with the darkling. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth The men crept together in the mess-room in the darkling, wrapped in what they could find and drank cocoa from the fireless heaters and listened to his cries. The War in the Air Long after he had smoked out his pipe, and when the bats were abroad, his curiosity dominated his complex hesitations, and he stole back into his darkling sitting-room. When the Sleeper Wakes He found the rocks darkling and the forest right deep and perilous of seeming. The High History of the Holy Graal Why rouseth he beforehand darkling air And the far din and rumblings? On the Nature of Things All the facts and forms of life remain darkling and cold. Tono Bungay Eastward cloud-land stretched for ever, darkling blue, and it seemed to Bert the whole round hemisphere of the world was under his eyes. The War in the Air It was remarked that Mr. Osborne was particularly quiet and gentle all day, to the surprise of those who had augured ill from his darkling demeanour. Vanity Fair Ann Veronica was lying on her bed in a darkling room staring at the ceiling. Ann Veronica, a modern love story For, in addition, lo, the heat on high Of constellated ether burdens down Upon them, and by sort of condensation Weaveth beneath the azure firmament The reek of darkling cloud. On the Nature of Things She carried some rugs for me through the shrubbery in the darkling. Tono Bungay She had paused by mere chance, and while her eyes were stormy with her thought, she suddenly became conscious that she was looking directly into other eyes as darkling as her own. The Shuttle Was there not, i'faith, a glow, a Vesuvian shimmer, beneath the murk of that darkling eye? The Conquest of Canaan How great and still and wonderful everything was, with the murmur of the sea sounding through it and the darkling cliffs beyond like grim giants guarding enchanted coasts. Anne of Green Gables Newcomers received the story of the crime in darkling whispers; and the outcast sat and sat and sat, and squirmed and squirmed and squirmed. Penrod There was a little white under the tan on her cheek, and her eyes had a darkling flash. The Redheaded Outfield Close to it was a dripping spinney, its trees forming a darkling background to the tumble-down house, whose thatch was rotting into holes, and its walls sagging forward perilously. The Shuttle For the first time in his life he saw a true light upon himself, and though the vision was darkling, the revelation was complete. The Conquest of Canaan And so now, although the town lies blue and darkling on her hills, innumerable spots of the bright element shine far and near along the pavements and upon the high facades. Edinburgh Picturesque Notes At last a steady twilight brooded over the earth, a twilight only broken now and then when a comet glared across the darkling sky. The Time Machine Mine was the woman to me, darkling I found her; Haling her dumb from the camp, took her and bound her. Verses 1889-1896 The huge room was never more than dimly lighted, and the far-off corners seemed more darkling than usual in the insufficient illumination of the far from brilliant lamps. The Shuttle He looked at the other's darkling face for a moment, and then rose with unwieldy deliberation. The Market-Place Sleep, crop and herd! sleep, darkling thorpe and croft Safe from the weather! An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry In that darkling calm my senses seemed preternaturally sharpened. The Time Machine Still the darkling skies are red, Though the day-god's course is run; Heavenly night-lamps overhead Flash and twinkle one by one. Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon The side of the ship made an opaque belt of shadow on the darkling glassy shimmer of the sea. The Secret Sharer He looked at this darkling middle distance for a moment or two without comprehension. The Market-Place Towering above him into the gloom were shelves and shelves of books, darkling toward the roof. The Haunted Bookshop At last, more than thirty million years hence, the huge red-hot dome of the sun had come to obscure nearly a tenth part of the darkling heavens. The Time Machine Then I looked out at the darkling sea, where in the dimness his little island was hidden. The Island of Doctor Moreau Now sparkling and darkling with wit, now humid with sympathy, now burning with the fire of courage, now taking on strength of color with ambition, now flashing indignantly at the abuse of any creature. Freckles Of it you have kept some flavour Through long paths of darkling strife: Water all has still a savour Of the primal well of life! The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 "The Seven Persons are out, and the trail is darkling." The Trail Book A darkling figure, he attained tragedy in leaving the life that had used him so shabbily. The Beautiful and Damned It came out black and clear-cut against the darkling sky; and presently a shapeless lump heaved up momentarily against the sky-line and vanished again. The Island of Doctor Moreau Immediately the square of darkling sky was eclipsed by the cabby's face. The Black Bag Then there was silence, a note of hers unanswered, and she fell, sinking into darkling depths. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California With darkling hook the Farmer of the Skies Goes reaping stars: they flicker, one by one, Nodding a little; tumble, — and are gone. Georgian Poetry 1920-22 Far, far around star-gleams are sparkling Amid the twilight space; And Earth, that lay so cold and darkling, Has veiled her dusky face. The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism Far, far around star-gleams are sparkling Amid the twilight space; And Earth, that lay so cold and darkling, Has veiled her dusky face. Criticism, Part 4, from Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism Twilight shadows lengthened, darkling, over the land; street-lights flashed up in long, radiant ranks. The Black Bag His mind tried to focus on what he had heard and fell back impotent, eddying downward through darkling depths like a drowning swimmer. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California In youth we love the darkling lawn, Brushed by the owlet's wing; Then evening is preferred to dawn, And autumn to the spring. The Inner Life, Part 3, from Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism In youth we love the darkling lawn, Brushed by the owlet's wing; Then evening is preferred to dawn, And autumn to the spring. The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism |
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