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.
Colour is important from dusky pastels through to the darkest hues.
The bed itself was framed in dark ebony, its dusky twists spiraling towards the ceiling, while the rest of the room was swathed in black and shades of maroon and blood red.
It is said that the duo perfected this play while working as life guards at Cedar Point, in Sandusky, Ohio. Five People Born on March 4 | myFiveBest
It is believed that predation by non-native red foxes was the primary reason for the extinction of the dusky pademelon on mainland Australia.
For here was a trailing line of jog-trotting dusky shapes, some crouching on dwarf ponies half their size, some trailing lances, lodge-poles, rifles, women and children after them, all moving with a monotonous rhythmic motion as marked as the military precision of the other cavalcade, and always on a parallel line with it. Tales of Trail and Town
Only a handful of endangered species, such as the Tecopa pupfish, the longjaw cisco, and the dusky seaside sparrow, have ever been taken off the list because they went extinct.
Even when, later still, the general's eager hand, stretching forth for the dusky flagon (it was sacrilege to sweep away those insignia of age and respectability), managed to capsize the candelabrum and sent the fluid "adamantine" spattering a treasured table-cloth (how quick the dash of the young trooper's hand upon the flame -- and its extinction!), a gentle smile was the sole rebuke, followed by a "Thank you, Mr. Harris. Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War
We are standing in a spacious kitchen painted a dusky pink colour that, were it a lipstick or nail varnish, would be called Plum Beautiful or Berry Sorbet.
Rather call the dusky and dark-haired Twilight, whose pensive face is limned against the western hills, by the name of that fierce and fervid Noon that stands erect under the hot zenith, instinct with the red blood of a thousand summers, casting her glittering tresses abroad upon the south-wind, and holding in her hands the all-unfolded rose of life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
Colour is a notable feature of the interior and comes in many hues of dusky pink through to violet. Times, Sunday Times
It is similar to the outdoors Red Hot Poker but its colour, a dusky pink, is much less aggressive.
Here we report an 8-year study of this system in a tropical passerine bird, the dusky antbird.
Among those buried in the cinders are the dusky-eyed heroine and her friend mother. The Iron Trail
The man bore dusky skin, dark brown hair with a long, thick ponytail, and an impressive broad sword sheathed within the scabbard upon his back.
Colours are a delicious mix of crushed raspberry and pale dusky pink. Times, Sunday Times
He was probably off to meet the dusky maiden when he returned to his chalet.
Observations have been made of groups of up to twenty dusky broadbills building a single nest.
The sink and toilet and enormous bath, complete with tiled steps, were all black while the porcelain floor and wall tiles were a dusky rose veined with cream.
This one has sprays of dusky pink flowers with frilly edges. Times, Sunday Times
A simple, extremely elegant dusky pink open flower with slightly ruffled petals. Times, Sunday Times
_Tréhala_ (fig. 2) consists of cocoons of an ovoid or globular form, about 3/4 of an inch in length; their inner surface is composed of a smooth, hard, dusky layer, external to which is a thick, rough, tuberculated coating of a greyish-white colour and earthy appearance. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
Other rare birds are Fraser's eagle owl Bubo poensis, white-bellied robin chat Cossypher roberti, Grauer's warbler Graueria vittata, short-tailed warbler Hemitasia neumanni, yellow-eyed black flycatcher Melaenornis ardesiaca, montane double-collared sunbird Nectarinia ludovicenis and dusky twinspot Clytospiza cinereoinacea. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
SANDUSKY - The owner of a small group of auto dealerships in Sandusky has found a creative use for more than 100 of its "cash for clunkers" clunkers while he waits for the government to hold up its end of the bargain. Undefined
Her four bridesmaids wore long dusky rose pink dresses. Times, Sunday Times
When, however, the little insignificant figure we have described approached so nigh as to receive some interruption from the warders, he dashed his dusky green turban from his head, showed that his beard and eyebrows were shaved like those of a professed buffoon, and that the expression of his fantastic and writhen features, as well as of his little black eyes, which glittered like jet, was that of a crazed imagination. The Talisman
It played over the pinks and dusky rose, the burgundies and clarets and smoky blues of the chairs and rugs. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
A hope that one day, the dusky, beautiful God of the cowherds and the shepherds would salvage her callously broken dreams.
Serve with bold winter food and watch its charming, dusky, bramble and blackcurrant fruit take centre stage.
Thirty feet deep in the open ocean, the blue varies from transparent to a dusky dark that seems to swallow light. Christianity Today
Beyond the last strip of rich color, there spread, shining delicately blue, a great field of flax; and then the dusky green of alfalfa and alsike for the Prescott of Saskatchewan
Dusky seaside DNA is, as far as can be seen, identical to that of other, commonplace, sparrows nearby.
These reflections detained him till the wood was embrowned with the coming night, and the shy little bird of this dusky time had begun to pour out all the intensity of his eloquence from a bush not very far off. The Woodlanders
She showed them a tapestried chamber, the large figures upon the faded canvas looking threatening in the dusky light.
They are quite chunky and the dusky shade of pink will look great as we head into autumn. Times, Sunday Times
Make my hear it gurgle gurgle, like the farest gargle gargle in the dusky dirgle dargle! Finnegans Wake
If there's a dusky maiden to rub on the sun oil, so much the better.
The first white men to press the soil of the township were the armed, belted and buckskinned knights under Col. William Crawford, in 1782, as they went silently, swiftly and with grim determination to battle. death and disaster on the Sandusky plains.
Dusky dolphins and Burmeister's porpoise are considerably more abundant and wide-ranging than the other three species.
It was dusky and quiet and a bartender moved mothlike against the faint glitter of piled glassware. The Times Literary Supplement
I sang till it got kind of dusky, and then I left my house for the last time. Sheepdip Diary Entry
A dusky red glowed in her tan cheeks; her eyes, shining with excitement and the joy of work, followed the skilled movements of the sickle she swung to and fro, and she was entirely absorbed in gathering in the precious _vraic_. Where Deep Seas Moan
Wine can follow you through your every mood: From champagne for celebration to mysterious, dusky clarets for contemplation, wine can be a constant travelling companion that allows you to wallow, or to rejoice.
To be surrounded by dozens of squawking, hissing sea birds with 10 ft wingspans was one thing, but add to that a pod of 600 acrobatic dusky dolphins and you had a wildlife spectacle to rival anything on earth.
SANDUSKY - For the 12th consecutive year, Cedar Point in Sandusky has been named the best amusement park in the world by Amusement Today, an industry magazine based in Arlington, Texas. Undefined
Its paints are quite chalky, which gives a softness that means you could venture into greens or dusky reds without making the hallway feel dark.
The colour combination of pale bill, dusky red tail, red on face and red under wings distinguishes the parrot from lorikeets.
This one has sprays of dusky pink flowers with frilly edges. Times, Sunday Times
While the public areas are bright and buzzy, the bedrooms are serene and minimalist, styled in dusky blues and greys. Times, Sunday Times
Chariots and horsemen, men and maidens, the grim visages of age and the dusky beauty of youth, in lengthened procession, with palms, and music, and benediction, in behalf of that early world paid the last tribute to a great and just benefactor, to a builder Abraham Lincoln: The Just Magistrate, the Representative Statesman, the Practical Philanthropist
The crimson or dusky green toile pattern is printed on Celeste 406 thread count percale sheeting with hand drawn hems.
Her hair was neither bronze nor gold nor copper, yet seemed to be an alloy of all the precious mines of the turning year -- the vigorous dusky gold of November elms, the rust of dead bracken made living by heavy rains, the color of beechmast drenched with sunlight after frost, and all the layers of glory on the boughs before it fell, when it needed neither sun nor dew to make it glow. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
Then the hunks of bacon kicked in, along with the caramelized onion and the dusky tones of the brandy with which the beef chunks had been flambéed.
The dusky hunters "guyed" the palefaces who could not do as well as they with their primitive weapons, even though the fire spouted from the iron tubes and the balls that could not be seen by the eye carried death farther than did the missiles launched by the natives. Deerfoot in The Mountains
Hanoverian flag bearing the one figure of a snow-white charger; and the great Austrian Empire, Caesarian, heir to overlording Rome, having for the imperial color the same imperial hue; and though this pre-eminence in it applies to the human race itself, giving the white man ideal mastership over every dusky tribe; and though, besides, all this, whiteness has been even made significant of gladness, for among the Romans a white stone marked Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
It's all dusky reds and yellows, shag-headed battle royales, exploding tanks, and getting up the next day to relive it on the playground.
They seemed to have the contrary effect, making him irritable; and though he made up his mind to watch the stars peer out through the opalescent sky -- he did not call it opalescent, for the simple word dusky took its place -- even their soft light had no effect upon him, and to come to the result at once the would-be sleeper gave it up at last for a bad job. In the Mahdi's Grasp
I wandered about tripping over palm roots and bumping into dusky maidens in my fit of jet-lag and bliss, before falling asleep among the other bodies and bright cushions.
Peering into the bushes that fringed the gurgling mountain brook, I soon caught sight of the little triller, and found that, so far as I could distinguish them with my field-glass, his markings were just like those of his eastern relative -- the same mottled breast, with the large dusky blotch in the centre. Birds of the Rockies
He and Violet sing duets as the purple film displaces the glories of azure and gold, and the twilight shadows the dusky bits of wood, the frowning rocks, and the indentations of shore that might be nereid haunts. Floyd Grandon's Honor
I guess it's okay to say "dusky" as a euphemism for "darky. "Why is Obama so vapid and hesitant and gutless? Why, to put it another way, does he risk going into political history as a dusky Dukakis?"
Round the guard-house a number of negro girls, with broad flat baskets on their heads, were selling fruit and cold water: they had decked their woolly hair, and the edges of their baskets, with garlands of the scarlet althaea; their light blue or white cloaks were thrown gracefully across their dusky shoulders, and white jackets, so that it was such a picture as the early Spaniards might have drawn of their Eldorado. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
All around the two silent watchers on the hill, an immense space spread itself between earth and sky, filled with dusky starlight and a fragrance of balsam and pine-smoke.
He had entered the footguards in 1771, and used to introduce his brother - officers to his dusky bride, boasting his confidence in her fidelity. Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2)
It was like a grey satin ribbon between the dusky green silk of the meadows that were on each side of its banks. The Railway Children
He would discover in his own way the lacy texture of a cantaloupe or the dusky purple of a ripe plum.
He picked up the term from African-American ( "dusky" he called them) stable hands at the Fair Grounds racetrack in New Orleans, probably on January 14, 1920. Your Right Hand Thief
The eggs, two in number, of a dull grey-green, closely and in part confluently dashed with streaks of dusky brown. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
Organic tones predominate - pond greens and dusky browns mixed with occasional violets and reds.
The bracken was turning to the dusky gold of a fine autumn.
There was a kind of dusky brownish-green parrot, too, which the scientific call a Nestor. A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
An osprey flying past with a fish in its talons was another bonus while a dusky flycatcher hawked insects from various perches around the garden.
Having a taste for "ghastliness," I had rather longed for the wounded to arrive, for rheumatism was n't heroic, neither was liver complaint, or measles; even fever had lost its charms since "bathing burning brows" had been used up in romances, real and ideal; but when I peeped into the dusky street lined with what I at first had innocently called market carts, now unloading their sad freight at our door, I recalled sundry reminiscences I had heard from nurses of longer standing, my ardor experienced a Hospital Sketches
The leaves serve as host for the larvae of two butterflies, the white hairstreak and the brown duskywing.
She was known for her deep, piercing eyes and dusky, throaty voice that always seemed to command the full attention of audiences.
Her four bridesmaids wore full-length dusky pink gowns with a Swarovski crystal motif. The Sun
Even the shade of pink used is more in keeping with your blog – dusky and womanly rather than the girly.nicola. follis | Heels
Key species are the dwarf honeyguide Indicator pumilio, African green broadbill Pseudocalyptomena graueri, Lagden's bushshrike Malaconotus lagdeni, Kivu ground thrush Zoothera tanganjicae, Oberlander's ground thrush Z. oberlaenderi, Grauer's rush warbler Bradypterus graueri, Chaplin's flycatcher Muscicapa lendu and dusky crimsonwing Cryptospiza shelleyi. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
Her hair was frizzed and wet-look gelled, her eyes hugely framed in dusky charcoal and her lips bright red. AN OLDER WOMAN
The flowers are big, bold and abundant, and they come in several colors - pinks, purples, dusky reds, white, pale green and even some yellows.
This room is decorated in dusky pink colour with another sash window.
Although dark and dusky, all this grey does not make the house gloomy. Times, Sunday Times
We are standing in a spacious kitchen painted a dusky pink colour that, were it a lipstick or nail varnish, would be called Plum Beautiful or Berry Sorbet.
When building homes, dusky-footed wood rats heap sticks into protective piles that may reach several feet in height and width.
Researchers have identified what could be signature whistles in other dolphin species, including spotted, white-sided, and dusky dolphins.
Species seen included black rat snake, ribbon snake, milk snake, gray tree frog, green frog, pickerel frog, wood frog, spring peeper, mountain dusky salamander, and the rare and beautiful long-tailed salamander.
An analysis of extrapair paternity in the dusky warbler, Phylloscopus fuscatus, revealed that females choose copulation partners on the basis of the quality but not of the quantity of song.
Suppose I said that I loved the people in India, I should not mean by that that I had any feeling about any individual soul of all those dusky millions, but only that I massed them all together; or made what people call a generalisation of them. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV
They were concerned about her dusky complexion and how that would affect her prospects in landing a good catch in the marriage market.
Her four bridesmaids wore long dusky rose pink dresses. Times, Sunday Times
There are words to represent these different grades of color, such as 'rufous' for reddish-brown and 'fuscous' for dusky-brown; these you must learn later on, for some of them are pretty hard ones. Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners
The most common shark attacks are from tigers, dusky whalers and bull sharks.
BugGuide also indicates: "The adult of this large, handsome species is easily separated from all other green lacewings found on citrus in Florida by the presence of two dusky spots on each forewing and the unusual mesothoracic markings. What's That Bug?
Pocock (1933), for example, described it as 'Uniformly blackish brown above and on the limbs and tail; with a grey patch above the eye and grey on the upper half of the cheeks; the sides of the muzzle, back of the ears, chin, and forepart of the throat white, but the hinder part of the throat, the breast, and the belly either a dusky greyish brown, or clean white'. That’s no mystery carnivore (part II)… it’s a giant squirrel!
Boneless One 42 gnaws his foot in his fireless house and wretched home; for the sun shows him no pastures to make for, but goes to and fro over the land and city of dusky men 43, and shines more sluggishly upon the whole race of the Hellenes. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
Her four bridesmaids wore full-length dusky pink gowns with a Swarovski crystal motif. The Sun
It was just getting dark as we walked along the riverside to the Taj and the dusky light falling over the Ouse added to the romance of the outing.
I have a dusky conure, and she is that parakeet's twin.
Keaton was born in Sandusky, Ohio October 1929, but was in Michigan living with his mother's sister, Florence Hicks Greenwood by the time the 1930 census was taken. Lafayette Keaton
The bed itself was framed in dark ebony, its dusky twists spiraling towards the ceiling, while the rest of the room was swathed in black and shades of maroon and blood red.
Notwithstanding that the majority of its inhabitants were generally of dusky hue and its political masters theoretically implacably hostile to South Africa, those same politicians had so swiftly beggared the nation after independence with its pursuit of unbridled socialism that it quickly succumbed to the lure of the Rands and Dollars which landing fees and the profits from refuelling SAA’s Boeing 747s generated in prodigious quantities. Archive 2008-03-23
And dusky sharks don't breed until they're 20 to 25 years old, after which small litters typically arrive at 3-year intervals.
One of my first patients was a man with swollen gums and tender thighs, the latter showing a diffuse dusky discoloration.
He had the hind legs of a stag, curved and cloven and furred, a dusky lion tail twitching by the left hock. Brush of Darkness
The _damar_, pounded and poured into palm-leaf tubes, serves for the torches of the fishermen, and for the lighting of the dusky native houses. Through the Malay Archipelago
The sun was pouring down a yellow autumnal ray into the square of the cloisters; beaming upon a scanty plot of grass in the centre, and lighting up an angle of the vaulted passage with a kind of dusky splendor. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
Daily probability of parasitism varied substantially among these species, from 3% for dusky flycatchers to more than four times that for warbling vireos.
The sun dips around 1am, there's a dusky twilight and then light again at 3am.
The four listed fish are the spotfin chub, yellowfin madtom, smoky madtom, and duskytail darter.
There was no pop-eyed lust, no furtive boner, no drooling over dusky bazooms and stiletto gams. Life As We Know It
The country, England and India alike, are so satisfied with my rule over what I may, perhaps without offence, call our dusky Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, July 2, 1892
But the whole season has been filled with earthy colors, such as dusky blues at Diane von Furstenberg and Michael Kors 's mauves and dove grays. From the Runways, Five Easy Pieces for Fall
This place is about three leagues from the mouth of Lake Sandusky, where it disembogues itself into Lake Erie.
She was clearly beautiful, with a slightly dusky skin tone, curly black hair and dark eyes.
Their underwings are a dusky grayish to brownish-white.
The camp-fires were lighted; and round them — eating, reposing, talking, looking at the merry steps of the dancing-girls, or listening to the stories of some Dhol Baut (or Indian improvisatore) were thousands of dusky soldiery. Burlesques
The chipped off-white of the wall behind her stood out starkly against her unusual dusky complexion and tan-and-green attire.
Children screamed, and ran hiding behind their dusky mothers; dogs growled and barked; horses neighed; mules hinnied; asses brayed; while the sheep and goats joined their bleating to the universal chorus. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness
Hospitals may have a certain erotic frisson, but romance novelists just love an exotic location, preferably some desert land ruled by a dusky tyrant who can give the virginal heroine a rough ride on his camel.
Dead muscle is dusky in colour, shows little tendency to bleed, and does not contract to forceps pressure.
The navvy was a fine specimen of humanity, with a complexion tanned a dusky coffee colour. The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton
Perfect in a dusky pink and burgundy planting scheme. Times, Sunday Times
Wherefore he dwelleth in a home most rich in flocks by the fair-flowing lake of Bœbe; and to the tillage of his fields, and the extent of his plains, toward that dusky _part of the heavens_, where the sun stays his horses, makes the clime of the Molossians the limit, and holds dominion as far as the portless shore of the Ægean Sea at Pelion. The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
Her hair was neither bronze nor gold nor copper, yet seemed to be an alloy of all the precious mines of the turning year – the vigorous dusky gold of November elms, the rust of dead bracken made living by heavy rains, the color of beechmast drenched with sunlight after frost, and all the layers of glory on the boughs before it fell, when it needed neither sun nor dew to make it glow. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
At times there was a deep meditativeness in the eye, again a dusky fire. The Lane That Had No Turning, Volume 4
The flowers age to a gorgeous pale dusky pink. Times, Sunday Times
However a high number of mammal species, 14 percent of the total mammalian fauna, are considered regionally or globally threatened, including the greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis VU), hairy-footed dunnart (Sminthopsis hirtipes), dusky hopping mouse (Notomys fuscus VU), mulgara (Dasycercus cristicauda VU), and kowari. Simpson desert
Each branch holds a cluster of dusky pink flowers, producing a magical effect. Times, Sunday Times
Screaming at the top of her voice, whilst her unshawled and dusky shoulders, as well as the soiled ribands of her dirty cap, were gently fanned by the sea-breeze, she commanded the men to return to their duty, in a volume of vociferation that seemed perfectly inexhaustible. The Bushman — Life in a New Country
Occasionally golden fulvous and sometimes dusky black above, paler beneath; membranes dusky brown; interfemoral membrane narrow, enclosing the tail except the last half joint (about 2-10ths of an inch), which is free. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
The ESA was not enough to save two species of fish in Texas, the Amistad and San Marcos gambusias; a bird in Florida, the dusky seaside sparrow; or a fish in Maryland, the Maryland darter.
Althea recalled the benignity of Helen's eyes as they dwelt upon him, her smile, startled, almost touched, when some quaint, telling phrase revealed him suddenly as an unconscious torch-bearer in a dusky, self-deceiving world. Franklin Kane
Colours are a delicious mix of crushed raspberry and pale dusky pink. Times, Sunday Times
This one has sprays of dusky pink flowers with frilly edges. Times, Sunday Times
The child's skin was a dusky brown, and tufts of darker hair were just beginning to grow.
I was stalking hameward across Blackwater-mosses, and whistling as I tramp'd for want of thought, when a noise struck my ear, like the crumpling of frosty murgeon; it made me stop short, and I thought I saw a strange form before me: it vanished behint a windraw; and again thare was nought in view but dreary dykes, and dusky ling. English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day
I have a dusky conure, and she is that parakeet's twin.
It was revealed to view by the dusky, uncertain glimmer of a wood fire that had burned almost down on a pair of tall brass andirons. Oldtown Folks
Ladies and gentlemen, on English horses of the best blood, canter along the road, or its turfen borders; while crowds of dusky natives gather in all directions, or leisurely move homewards after their day's work. The Story of Ida Pfeiffer
Her four bridesmaids wore full-length dusky pink gowns with a Swarovski crystal motif. The Sun
However a high number of mammal species, 14 percent of the total mammalian fauna, are considered regionally or globally threatened, including the greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis VU), hairy-footed dunnart (Sminthopsis hirtipes), dusky hopping mouse (Notomys fuscus VU), mulgara (Dasycercus cristicauda VU), and kowari. Simpson desert
The flowers age to a gorgeous pale dusky pink. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. Anderson said his suit wouldn't interfere with the prosecution of Mr. Sandusky, because the suit is more about illuminating what he called "institutional concealment" at Penn State and Second Mile than punishing Mr. Sandusky. New Accuser Files Lawsuit in Penn State Abuse Case
The lesions are bright to dusky red and reach up to 1.5 cm.
Colour is a notable feature of the interior and comes in many hues of dusky pink through to violet. Times, Sunday Times
Salt pans punctuate the expanse of shortgrass prairie and dusky gray sagebrush. Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
Her hair was neither bronze nor gold nor copper, yet seemed to be an alloy of all the precious mines of the turning year – the vigorous dusky gold of November elms, the rust of dead bracken made living by heavy rains, the colour of beechmast drenched with sunlight after frost, and all the layers of glory on the boughs before it fell, when it needed neither sun nor dew to make it glow. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
We imagined it curling darkly through the reeds, and saw herons stalking its dusky flats; an owl swooped across waters silvered by the moon.
This one has sprays of dusky pink flowers with frilly edges. Times, Sunday Times
For many large coastal shark species, the declines were much greater - tiger, scalloped hammerhead, bull and dusky shark populations have all plummeted by more than 95 percent.
Juvenile dusky morwong meander nearby, while octopus and cuttlefish hide below suspended beams and the tips of old hollowed piles.
Between me and the light, the better to see us, a lad had climbed on to a high ledge, close against the luxurious overhanging foliage – all lit up from the dying glow – of the precipitous rock, and, wearing only a red loin-cloth on his shining dusky skin, stretched forward in eagerness, quite unconscious of his graceful poise. Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago
There was spiraling of the bowel around the midgut mesentery and the midgut was dusky in color.
- Colour dusky grey-brown above, more or less dark, with black hands and feet; a conspicuous crest on the vertex; under parts white, scarcely extending to the inside of the limbs; sides grey like the back; whiskers dark, very long, concealing the ears in front; lips and eyelids conspicuously white, with white moustachial hairs above and similar hairs below. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
Sitting up on one of the lion sculptures, alone in the dusky gloam, Rovender Kitt stared out at the skies as the top of the sun sank below the inky landscape. The Search For WondLa
His face was fined down and lost most of its boyishness but his skin was still a dusky gold.
The little shaded lamp threw a circle of light round the bed, but left the rest of the room dim, and the dusky corners seemed full of odd new shadows that came and went illusively. The Sheik
In one part will be found the large cob, almost the size of a waterbuck, which is called Mrs. Gray's cob, in honor of the wife of one of the former keepers in the London zoo; in another part is the species known as Vaughan's cob, and in still other parts are the dusky cob, the puku cob, the lechwi cob, the black lechwi, the Uganda cob and Buffon's cob. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country
He worked at fashioning his face into a war mask but a rosy flush incandesced beneath the dusky surface of his skin. Blood Test
A baby Indian triggerfish is mothered along by a group of dusky batfish; beyond them, large rocks host parrotfish and wrasse, then drop off abruptly, bottoming at around 50m.
Aw, what 're you giffin us!" jeered a dusky young mulatto, clad in a ragged striped sweater, recently discharged as a stable-boy. Bred In The Bone 1908
Instead, his focus is on the hundreds of fruit bats silhouetted against the dusky sky. In Sydney, Unwanted Guests Urged to Find New Belfry
He had just become aware of the first dusky breath of the twilight, when a tiny sloop appeared, rounding the Deid Heid, as they called the promontory which closed in the bay on the east. Malcolm
He looks just like that black and white videos I've seen of the last thylacine on Earth, but I know from pictures online during wanders for cryptids that they are actually kind of a dusky brown color, like dingos.
Under a baldachin is a litter, on which swings to and fro a dusky Madonna dressed after the fashion of the native goddesses, with a ring in her nose. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
In those waste regions of oblivion, dusky banners and tattered escutcheons indicated the graves of those who were once, doubtless, “princes in Israel.” Rob Roy
Somewhere out in the gloom coyotes chattered and yelped, and from far across the dusky valley others answered -- a doleful tenson. The River and I
This one has sprays of dusky pink flowers with frilly edges. Times, Sunday Times
To be surrounded by dozens of squawking, hissing sea birds with 10 ft wingspans was one thing, but add to that a pod of 600 acrobatic dusky dolphins and you had a wildlife spectacle to rival anything on earth.
With its allusions to dusky rivers, soul, blood, the setting sun, and sleep, the poem is fairly suffused with images of death.
Later, dusky Henriette Blondéau comes, with her tignon stuck full of pins and the deep pockets of her apron bulging with sticks of bandoline, pots of pomade, hairpins and a Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood,
Wingless Aphids: Body light green, spindle shaped; all of legs dusky; cornicles light green, reduced and cone shaped; antennae very short and dark at tips; projection above cauda.
Her four bridesmaids wore full-length dusky pink gowns with a Swarovski crystal motif. The Sun
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
He rested the tired sailors of the Resolution in Dusky Sound and brewed beer from shoreside evergreens.
It's marked by a tender, fragile, carefully contained beauty, strung together like dewdrops on a spiderweb in the dusky half-light the title suggests.
At least in the long term (the cold of last winter was a set-back), the charming little Dartford warbler, predominantly grey and dusky pink, a lover of heather and gorse, which is at the northern edge of its range in Britain, should become commoner as the climate becomes warmer. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
The tail is pigmented and dusky, but the other fins are usually clear.
The old cafes are still local favorites, but now it's also possible to watch a dusky red sunset filtered through a mellow golden Chardonnay at several very good restaurants.
It may change colour sequentially from a red-purple to a dusky blue before progressing to necrosis and formation of bullae and eventually becoming haemorrhagic.
This one has sprays of dusky pink flowers with frilly edges. Times, Sunday Times
The bare interramal skin is dusky, and visible rictal bristles are absent.
There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea; the dead – cold hearths showed no traces of having ever been warmed but in heaps of soot that had tumbled down the chimneys, and eddied about in little dusky whirlwinds when the doors were opened. Little Dorrit
“Yes, your haner,” said the man, “give us God! we do not want money;” and the uncouth girl said something, which sounded much like Give us God! but I hastened across the meadow, which was now quite dusky, and was presently in the inn with my wife and daughter. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks
The light was becoming dusky so I decided that sidelights were probably the way to go.
You cease to care much for the melancholy greenness of the disfeatured statues which has been your chief winter's intimation of verdure; and before you are quite conscious of the tender streaks and patches in the great quaint grassy arena round which the Propaganda students, in their long skirts, wander slowly, like dusky seraphs revolving the gossip of Paradise, you spy the brave little violets uncapping their azure brows beneath the high-stemmed pines. Italian Hours
The ties were a disgrace, mind, but if we have to wear dusky pink to get a result then we bloody well will.
Back then, the question of water quality in the Huangpu or Suzhou Creek was not an issue and one can imagine tourists bathing in the dusky light on a summer evening before returning to the Astor for an evening meal, drinks and a dance.
They go to watch sperm whales spout and dive or to swim with pods of dusky dolphins.
One of my English correspondents has recently spent a couple of months in Indonesia and mentioned with approval the dusky maidens there.

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