Darkly
['dɑrkli]
Definition
(adv.) without light; 'the river was sliding darkly under the mist'.
(adv.) in a dark glowering menacing manner; 'he stared darkly at her'.
Checked by Gerald--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly.
(adv.) With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look.
Checker: Terrance
Examples
- She traced with her hands the line of his loins and thighs, at the back, and a living fire ran through her, from him, darkly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Defarge glanced darkly at him for answer, and walked on in a steady and set silence. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He stopped, smiled darkly, and added, in a low, vindictive tone, 'It serves him right! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Mrs. Yorke and Miss Mann would darkly suggest ditto. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There you go, said Cassy, looking darkly after him; your reckoning's to come, yet! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- We are beginning to realize what he saw darkly and at a distance. Plato. The Republic.
- As yet, little Dora was quite unconscious of my desperate firmness, otherwise than as my letters darkly shadowed it forth. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Dorothea, in a most unaccountable, darkly feminine manner, ended with a slight sob and eyes full of tears. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Purple twigs were darkly luminous in the grey air, high hedges glowed like living shadows, hovering nearer, coming into creation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Mr. Laurence and his grandson dined with them, also Mr. Brooke, at whom Jo glowered darkly, to Laurie's infinite amusement. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He paused, and looked round darkly at his wife. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Never had I pitied Madame before, but my heart softened towards her, when she turned darkly from the glass. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He darkly closed an eye at Mr. Jaggers's name, and shook his head. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Miss Abbey knitted her brow at him, as he darkly leered at her. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Still the faint glamour of blackness persisted over the fields and the wooded hills, and seemed darkly to gleam in the air. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Defarge and the three glanced darkly at one another. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The night had fallen on the Kentish hills when we were rowed ashore--and fallen darkly upon me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- However, I got dressed, darkly wiping my sanguinary face at intervals, and I said, Can I help you? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The darkness of hell should hide what followed, but revenge must lift the veil, and darkly intimate what it would raise the dead to speak aloud. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Mrs Higden set that resolute old face of hers, and darkly nodded yes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Darkly, without thinking at all, she knew that she was near to death. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He knew her darkly, with the fullness of dark knowledge. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I fear that I must have been talking darkly, like the tragedians. Plato. The Republic.
- The money which I brought into the family, sir, Lady George cried out-- You purchased a contingent reversion with it, the Marquis said darkly. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Checker: Terrance