darkle
Americanverb (used without object)
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to appear dark; show indistinctly.
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to grow dark, gloomy, etc.
verb
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to grow dark; darken
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(intr) to appear dark or indistinct
Etymology
Origin of darkle
1790–1800; back formation from darkling, adv. taken as present participle
Example Sentences
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A ship glides by, a shadowy form, Faint roseate lights around me sparkle, A gathering mist precedes the storm, And far-off forest tree-tops darkle.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 by Various
And the fire-flies wink and darkle, Crowded swarms that soar and sparkle, And in wildering escort gather!
From Faust by Bayard Taylor
From him that dream of transport flows, Which sweet intoxication knows; With him, the brow forgets to darkle, And brilliant graces learn to sparkle.
From The Odes of Anacreon by Thomas Moore
Eye of clear and diamond sparkle, Where the Baltic waters darkle, Lonely German seer of Reason, Great and calm as Atlas old; Through our formless foggy season, Short thine adamantine cold.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various
Now sorrowing King and Queen, as midday booms, The hushed Fane enter, while o'er mourners black, Grey soldier, choral white, quick gleams and glooms Of sun and shadow darkle and sparkle back.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves
We were standing in front of her cottage, that darkled in the trees.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp
Their rods and nets hung up, awaiting the return of genial spring; and the churlish stream, abandoned to its wintry mood, darkled and roared savagely under the windows of the Brass Castle.
From The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Page 206: "darkled": was changed to "darted" in the phrase: "And they darted between the planets..."
From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes
He never was out of the way when wanted; he darkled with your boots and shoes in a little closet next your door, and came from it with the morning coffee and rolls.
From Familiar Spanish Travels by William Dean Howells
I was so far from wishing myself to smile at it, that I darkled most respectfully about it, without the courage to inquire directly into the mystery.
From Seven English Cities by William Dean Howells
This meditative adagio is the work’s longest movement, and Olafsson stretched its darkling arabesques to more than 10 minutes.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
They included a number of vivid green and pinkish-orange darkling beetles from China and Laos, and four long-snouted weevils from South Africa.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2023
For them, our species stands before a darkling plain that is at once its birthright and its destiny: the universe itself.
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2023
Enter a species of darkling beetle larvae known as Zophobas morio.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2022
The someone was standing beside the car, no more than a darker shape against the darkling sky.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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