Dimly

Examples

• No, guardian, I returned, fearful of the light that dimly broke upon me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Holmes's cold, thin fingers closed round my wrist and led me forward down a long hall, until I dimly saw the murky fanlight over the door. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• A man riding in hot haste was now dimly descried at the top of a distant hill. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• You were satisfied that he could not have been concealed in the room all the time, or in the corridor which you have just described as dimly lighted? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The blood-flowing had made Margaret conscious--dimly, vaguely conscious. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It was moonless, but the reflex from the many glowing windows lit the court brightly, and even the alleys--dimly. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Oh, and the beauty of the subjection of his loins, white and dimly luminous as he climbed over the side of the boat, made her want to die, to die. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• One or two small shrouded lamps placed on the floor served dimly to light the way to a few descending steps, and the voice of an invisible guide gave directions to walk forward. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Holmes, I cried, I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• He would hear services intoned before this divinity, and certain precepts, which would be dimly familiar to him, murmured as responses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• No veiled future dimly glanced upon him in the moonbeams. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Just so had she first dimly seen the face which she now dimly saw again. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• They waited dimly, in a sort of not-being, for many uncounted, unknown minutes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• A vast shadow, in which could be dimly traced portions of a masculine contour, blotted half the ceiling. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Clym, seeing him but dimly, would have let him pass silently, had not the pedestrian, who was Charley, recognized the young man and spoken to him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I could not express it in words--I could hardly even realise it dimly in my own thoughts. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Ay, ay, he's a 'complice you can't send out o' the country, said Mr. Crabbe, the glazier, who gathered much news and groped among it dimly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Each one for all the obsessions of self is yet dimly aware of something in common, of something that could make a unity out of our infinite diversity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Dimly she had come down to London with Birkin, London had been a vagueness, so had the train-journey to Dover. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Very sombre it was--long, vast, and dark; one latticed window lit it but dimly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The dark mass of the church-tower was the first object I discerned dimly against the night sky. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The farewell sadness in the kind blue eyes shone dimly through her gathering tears. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Just about sunrise they saw its conical shape dimly on the horizon, and Crispin, who had his glasses up, uttered a cry of dismay. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The trees that shut out the view on all sides look dimly black and solid in the distance, like a great wall of rock. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• BOOK THREE -- THE FASCINATION 1--My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is In Clym Yeobright's face could be dimly seen the typical countenance of the future. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The woman rose: she opened a door, through which I dimly saw a passage: soon I heard her stir a fire in an inner room; she presently came back. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Very dimly--each is a luminous cloud. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The stage must be darkened and dimly lighted, otherwise the ghost will hardly be visible. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Condemned to a passage through the world by such narrow little dimly-lighted ways, and picking up so few specks or spots on the road! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• An Artaxerxes III, covered with blood, flourishes dimly for a time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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