dusky

How To Use dusky In A Sentence

• The restaurant, with its acre of tables, glassed and naperied; the ranges of telephone booths, all going it together; the cellars, a vast subterrene, with dusky avenues of lockers, each cluttered with beverages of individual predilection -- though I suppose that, after all, they were a good deal alike .... On the Stairs
• The spirit of a soldier of the Truth entered into me; weary as I was, I rushed from the dusky corner where I had been hidden in the twilight, ran to the altar, and held up my hand with my hymn-book as I began to repeat an address that had often silenced the papistic mummers in England. In the Wrong Paradise
• The crunch leaves of autumn had shrivelled and the sun was a lazy, dusky peach colour.
• The light within the eave was a dusky twilight at the entrance, which failed altogether in the inner recesses. The Antiquary
• The dusky pademelon is the only macropodid (kangaroo) found in the Banda Sea islands (Kai), although it is also found in the Aru Islands and the Trans Fly of New Guinea. Banda Sea Islands moist deciduous forests
• The bracken was turning to the dusky gold of a fine autumn.
• The dusky salamander lives in the southern Appalachian Mountains, and likes to stay at home.
• Rima's dusky ayah, Asha, at eighteen almost a child herself, makes up the required third player in their games.
• Look at those hollyhocks, like pyramids of roses; those garlands of the convolvulus major of all colours, hanging around that tall pole, like the wreathy hop-bine; those magnificent dusky cloves, breathing of the Spice Islands; those flaunting double dahlias; those splendid scarlet geraniums, and those fierce and warlike flowers the tiger-lilies. Our Village
• They lapped against the outspread hands of a solitary girl, whose dusky hair rose and fell with the water.