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    dusky


    1. His would always be a tough love given freely at the dusky ending of the day


    2. itself, letting in golden light where there should have been dusky


    3. The storm-darkened sky, beautiful in its dusky radiance, was a dire signal to cut her perceived losses and seek refuge for the night


    4. His features were classically Imperial, dusky and striking


    5. One door was immediately swung back to admit us, but the dusky janitors nearly dropped with astonishment when two presumptuous white men entered


    6. The woods were very dusky by this time; but


    7. There silhouetted against the dusky West was the military Raptor unmanned aircraft hovering over the path


    8. Pretty soon, daylight became too bright for the naked eye to handle but where the stone lay, it was pleasantly dusky, and one could actually close his eyes and fall asleep with ease


    9. The night had the better of Laru and made dusky sounds outside the window


    10. When Maggie looked down the earth was a dusky colour, streaked with the glowing silver of rivers, lakes, and the seas themselves

    11. Of the fifteen Sounds they only could contemplate the Dusky, the Doubtful and the


    12. magnificent natural spout of fjords and still covered with mist, Doubtful Sound is less impressive than Dusky Sound for in two and a half-hours of its crossing, only fewer islands, lower hills and fewer and less impressive waterfalls could be found


    13. And again I said: Lord thereafter what will You do? And I heard a voice saying to me: Hear righteous John; Then shall appear the denier and he who is set apart in the darkness who is called Antichrist; And again I said: Lord reveal to me what he is like; And I heard a voice saying to me: The appearance of his face is dusky; the hairs of his head are sharp like darts; his eyebrows like a wild beast's; his right eye like the star which rises in the morning and the other like a lion's; his mouth about one cubit; his teeth span long; his fingers like scythes; the print of his feet of two spans; and on his face an inscription Antichrist; he shall be exalted even to Heaven and shall be thrown down even to Hades making false displays; And then will I make the Heaven brazen so that it shall not give moisture on the Earth; and I will hide the clouds in secret places so that they shall not bring moisture on the Earth; and I will command the horns of the wind so that the wind shall not blow on the Earth


    14. What were we doing to our nation? It was now getting dusky and we left again


    15. So they passed out of the dusky hall into the clear blaze of the summer sun


    16. She scanned the rocks nervously, then, with a shuddering suspicion, crept to the north edge of the cliff and gazed down into the waving green mass below, already dusky with the sunset


    17. Near him swayed the dusky lotus, and he hastened to draw away from it


    18. Her dark eyes, shaded by long dusky lashes, were deep with sensuous mystery


    19. "I came here when a young girl," she answered, leaning lithely back against the velvet divan, and intertwining her slender fingers behind her dusky head


    20. I am a daughter of Luxur, and before I had known fifteen summers I had been led through the temples of Derketo, the dusky goddess, and had been initiated into the mysteries

    21. For an instant a dimming witchfire glimmered in those dusky depths; then it disappeared and Conan lay staring down into the blackness of the ultimate abyss from which no sound came


    22. There was no sound of footsteps, but the great dusky form grew more distinct until Conan recognized the figure of a man


    23. Under its edge the dusky metal of Khosatral's body gave way like common flesh beneath a cleaver


    24. This dais stood in a great, dim room whose walls were hung with dusky tapestries across which crawled dragons reproduced with repellent realism


    25. But like an impression left in the gloom, a faint luminance remained, and revealed a slender dusky shaft shooting up from the shadowy floor


    26. 'Black dog of hell!' Conan drove his sword between the dusky shoulders with such vengeful fury that the broad blade stood out half its length from the black breast


    27. with dusky beauty very rare


    28. A wind whispered through the black branches, rippling the dusky water


    29. In the dusky emerald glow of the fire-gems she saw a shadowy figure bending over her


    30. The people were a mixed race, a dusky nobility ruling a population that was largely pure Negro

    31. He did not refuse tests devised by the dusky lords


    32. The slave shuddered and his dusky face went ashen


    33. Again Thoth shuddered and an ashen hue tinged his dusky skin


    34. The slave's eyes were blazing, his mouth wide, his huge dusky hands outstretched like talons


    35. "My Ring—stolen from me—" Steel glittered in the Stygian's hand and with a heave of his great dusky shoulders he drove the dagger into the baron's fat body


    36. Conan wasted no more breath on his dusky betrayer


    37. Treachery had its birth in that dusky land


    38. Each stood in a niche in the dusky stone, and the tiers mounted up and up to be lost in the gloom above


    39. He towered beside the altar, dusky, naked, with a face like a carven image


    40. The dusky masters have been driven south of the great river Styx, Nilus, or Nile, which, flowing north from the shadowy hinterlands, turns almost at right angles and flows almost due west through the pastoral meadowlands of Shem, to empty into the great sea

    41. The Stygians are tall and well made, dusky, straight- featured—at least the ruling classes are of that type


    42. He could see JY clearly though the dusky light was fading


    43. Yet checkers still with red the dusky brakes


    44. Her mother’s eyes, green, like her own and wide, with a slight upward slant at the edges, even in the dusky light seemed sharper than she remembered, but there was a raw austerity in them that made her wary


    45. He wasn't too successful, especially when she nuzzled up close and he could smell her perfume and the dusky scent of her skin


    46. It’s as though her whole body is endued with a magnetic layer, isn’t it? If not, how can one explain her dusky complexion? Oh, some god could have turned horny while making her! Why else is she the femme fatale of the first order?’


    47. Later, your mutual attraction resulted in your passionate liaison that catered to Roopa’s craving for male élan, and yours, for your dusky dame


    48. I led Bill to my car, parked under the dusky street light


    49. Grimacing, he crawled into the dusky shade of the trees


    50. The scene was to be filmed in a dusky light, almost dream sequence surreal














































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    Synonyms for "dusky"

    dark-skinned dusky swart swarthy twilight twilit sombre gloomy cloudy dim murky obscure dark

    "dusky" definitions

    lighted by or as if by twilight


    naturally having skin of a dark color