How To Use Darkling In A Sentence
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BRIEF SYNOPSIS: A group of kids who possess supernatural abilities during the midnight hour fight off the sinister darklings.
REVIEW: Midnighters #1 - The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld
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Then clipt and clung about his breast enveiled in darkling room.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Standing recently upon the heathery crest of Hartcliff Hill we looked due west, where the Woodhead Road climbs Bord Hill, where the darkling moortops were suddenly illuminated.
Country diary: Langsett
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Then clipt and clung about his breast enveiled in darkling room.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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I guess the mention of collapsed time (12: 00 AM for the Midnighters, the other 24 hours for the darklings) is supposed to explain it, but I would have like a more concrete explanation.
REVIEW: Midnighters #1 - The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld
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And died in darkling air no more to be for ever shown.’
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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We had, after all, assembled at the Winnock Hotel, on the darkling winter banks of Loch Lomond, for an evening of ‘murder-mystery entertainment’.
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But all great glories had their interlunar period; and in due time her grandfather would once more flash full-orbed upon a darkling world.
Crucial Instances
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The bad news is that this is also the time when their hometown of Bixby, Oklahoma is populated by dark, sinister, shape-shifting creatures called the darklings.
REVIEW: Midnighters #1 - The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld
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He gazes with glorious cheer upon the wretched middle class, and as our train rolls away we see him still gazing across the darkling cellars of the station with that untroubled gleam of condescension, his eyes seeming (as we look back at them) as large and white and unspeculative as billiard balls.
Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
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a darkling glance
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secret operatives and darkling conspiracies
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And we ought to retain the invincible green of cedars, junipers and box, cypress, laurel, hemlock spruce and cloaking ivy, darkling amid and above these, receiving from and giving to them a cheer which neither could have in their frostbound Eden without mutual contrast.
The Amateur Garden
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a darkling journey
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Many of her class set out by being impostors and end by becoming enthusiasts, or hold a kind of darkling conduct between both lines, unconscious almost when they are cheating themselves or when imposing on others.
Guy Mannering
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They call them darklings, those who are half-turned.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
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A good many people never learn to sing until the darkling shadows fall. The fabled nightingale carols with his breast against a thorn.
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'Mine was the woman, darkling I found her,'" he hummed, significantly.
CHAPTER 25
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In the late afternoon and well on into the darkling evening Graham pottered happy as something that's very happy indeed, pulling out the winter wall-flowers, planting out the new salvias, and potting up the grasses and the thrift.
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The midnighters--people born at the stroke of midnight--have access to the Secret Hour, an extra hour at midnight when time freezes and the midnighters alone roam the town...well, not quite alone, because there are also the darklings: ancient predators who were long-ago banished to the "blue time," as Bixby's teenage midnighters call it.
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Brunnehilde, when she informs Siegmund of his imminent death, is another such darkling, numinous presence.
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To him I reported every detail that occurred when he was not with me; and he, with furrowed brows, sitting darkling by the hour, like a patient spider unravelled the tangle and spun the web afresh.
Chapter 15
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Generally, pitfall trap data indicated that darkling beetles significantly preferred unmowed areas to mowed areas, while crickets showed no preference.
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She used Thomas Hardy's poem, "The Darkling Thrush" as the armature for her meditations on memory and loss.
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They go to some far trysting-place, some nest that is to be in willow or darkling fir, some place that their ancestors have known; and we are left with a memory of wings dividing the air and a sense of frustration.
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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To a man of the world looking on, who has seen the men and morals of many cities, it was curious, almost pathetic, to watch that poor little innocent creature fresh and smiling, attired in bright colours and a thousand gewgaws, simpering in the midst of these darkling people — practising her little arts and coquetries, with such a court round about her.
The Newcomes
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One evening recently I was walking with 2-year-old Kaya in the light of sunset when she pointed to the western sky above the darkling mountains and shouted: ‘Pink!’
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When I was down at Aireys Inlet with the Darklings for our writing retreat, I told them about that mean man who said something narky after the meme thing I did, and out of that came a conversation about the value of knowing 25 random things about the characters in our manuscripts.
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Her expertise with numbers is a skill she uses to good effect when she charges weapons to fight off the darklings.
REVIEW: Midnighters #1 - The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld
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Many of her class set out by being impostors, and end by becoming enthusiasts, or hold a kind of darkling conduct between both lines, unconscious almost when they are cheating themselves, or when imposing on others.
Chapter XLVII
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She stalked, stiff-legged like a wolf, into the darkling garden and like a wolf she sniffed the air.
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Jessica is also a Midnighter with powers that are apparently so fierce, the darklings decide to emerge from the outer badlands and go after her.
REVIEW: Midnighters #1 - The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld
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Plus, if I just threw in some multisyllabic words, extended my sentences until each was a paragraph long, and used "darkling" a few times, I'd be the Faulkner of Phoenix.
Gayle Lynds: "Aping" Her Betters
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Tessa had read of them in the Codex: Subjugates, or darklings, were mundanes who had sworn themselves to the service of a vampire.
Clockwork Angel
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Thus, if Hardy ‘leant upon a coppice gate,’ Rabinowitz is ‘Ensnared at the main gate’; Hardy's line ‘The tangled bine stems scored the sky’ is ghosted in Darkling as: ‘Scores of music I / Can't hear any more…’ .
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The darkling beetle or lesser mealworm, Alphitobius diaperinus, is rapidly becoming more of a nuisance in the poultry operation.
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The clinker-built whaler lay trapped between the twin worlds of darkling sea and shadow-limned night.
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But all great glories had their interlunar periods; and in due time her grandfather would once more flash full-orbed upon a darkling world.
"The Angel at the Grave."
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A cold wind fell out of the darkling, late-autumn sky, rushing down the sides of the little valley and bumping into the house with a start.
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When I got back I sat for a while, enjoying a ciggy, and watching the water fowl settling for the night on the darkling waters.
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From beneath her lashes, Patience threw Vane a darkling glance.
A RAKE'S VOW