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- Think of her wild fancy as we may, she felt as if that dusky woman of her midnight vision on the river were breathing for one hour through her lips. [6]
- Silently leading the way through the dusky corridor, no longer illumined by the moonlight, he entered his daughter's room before her. [10]
- A noble peace was upon it, and the eyes were like lamps of dusky fire, as though they held all the strength of the nerveless body. [11]
- Presently a match was struck, and Elise came forward with a candle raised level with her dusky head. [11]
- Between its windows was a table covered with a long, white cloth reaching to the floor, on which, amidst the silverware and glass, was set a tall vase filled with dusky roses. [9]
- I mean to try that on my dusky audience. [5]
- Appalled by this transition, he alighted from the car, and stood for a moment alone in the darkness gazing at the great white houses that rose above the dusky outline of shrubbery and trees. [9]
- Hendon, always alert, thought he would like to know why the officer followed the woman out; so he slipped softly into the dusky hall and listened. [5]
- Two days after, this letter was delivered to Pyrrhus by his dusky friend Anukis. [10]
- What chiefly struck them was the larger number of dusky faces, and the fanciful garb of the Magians. [10]
- When I climb the trees, and throw down the dusky fruit, Polly catches it in her apron; nearly always, however, letting go when it drops, the fall is so sudden. [4]
- Ambition, hope, youth, the Foreign Office, the chancelleries of Europe, the perils of impending war, were all forgotten, or sunk into the dusky streams of subconsciousness. [11]
- Fashion had entered the fold, and the singing was mostly executed by a choir in the dusky gallery, who thinly and harshly warbled the emotional hymns. [4]
- Does the great Speckled Thunder sigh for the war-path, or is his heart contented with dreaming of the dusky maiden, the Pride of the Forest? [5]
- The appeal was so charmingly made that every one was moved by it, especially the maiden ladies present, who might be supposed to enter into the feelings of their dusky sisters beyond the seas. [4]
- He opened and shut the door noisily; he stamped into the dusky room. [11]
- As I lay on the lounge and my eyes grew accustomed to the darkness, I fancied I could see a long, dusky, shapeless thing stretched upon the floor. [5]
- A smile was on her lips, her eyes gleamed with health; her furs --of silver fox--were thrown back, the crimson roses pinned on her mauve afternoon gown matched the glow in her cheeks, while her hair mingled with the dusky shadows. [9]
- I stood with my head turned away towards the dusky ocean. [11]
- Handsome, great dusky men they were, muscular, clean-limbed, and with faces full of character and intelligence. [5]
- Trautchen, the old maid-servant, opened the door, and in the spacious, dusky entrance-hall, where the bales of leather were packed closely together, did not notice the dilapidation of his outer man. [10]
- I got a little interested in some curious old tapestries of the thirteenth century, but a party of Arabs came by, and their dusky faces and quaint costumes called my attention away at once. [5]
- But with Myrtle it was a fixed belief that she felt perfectly distinct currents of her ancestral blood at intervals, and she had sometimes thought there were instincts and vague recollections which must have come from the old warriors and hunters and their dusky brides. [6]
- All in an instant a fierce eye of fire shot out froth behind the cape and sent a long brilliant pathway quivering athwart the dusky water. [5]
- Well, before long here comes the wreck, dim and dusky, sliding along down! [5]
- One, a fat face, framed in thick hair and a short, thick and ragged beard, was of a dusky brown and as coarse and brutal as the other was smooth, colorless and lean, cruel and crafty. [10]
- Then there was energy and attention to business until its dusky outlines came in sight again. [5]
- Within the house enclosure are an olive mill and press, a wine-press and a great storehouse of wine, containing now little but empty casks,--a dusky, interesting place, with pomegranates and dried bunches of grapes and oranges and pieces of jerked meat hanging from the rafters. [4]
- How still, how dusky, how clean everything that surrounded him was! [10]
- It grew more dusky, and rained more violently; but there was nothing alarming in the situation, since I knew exactly where I was. [4]
- One of those dusky red roses just ready to bloom. [9]
- She called the dusky little Egyptian, and said: "Hathor, pray come back to the factory with me. [10]
- All day the dusky caravan has flowed In devious trails along the winding road, (For many a step their homeward path attends, And all the sons of Abraham are as friends. [6]
- In the rural districts of any of the Islands, the traveler hourly comes upon parties of dusky maidens bathing in the streams or in the sea without any clothing on and exhibiting no very intemperate zeal in the matter of hiding their nakedness. [5]
- She had a complexion of ivory tinged with red, raven hair, and dusky, long-lashed, mischievous eyes brimming with merriment. [9]
- Wolf and his companion heard shrill laughter and loud shrieks echoing from its dusky interior. [10]
- Then she turned back into the dusky chamber, pointed to the open door of the sitting-room, and said, "just look! [10]
- She shivered, and as she turned back into the dusky room, it seemed as if this twilight atmosphere must always remain, as if no more bright days could ever come. [10]
- Nor is there any evidence that the dusky Pocahontas, who is about to appear, displaced in his heart the image of the too partial Tragabigzanda. [4]
- It was done, and that one luminous point redeemed the sombre apartment as the evening star glorifies the dusky firmament. [6]
- In the anteroom a young freedman had hurried silently past him--had vanished like a shadow through the dusky rooms. [10]
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