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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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
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
Should It never Curb or cure Aught whatever Those endure Whom It quickens, let them darkle to extinction swift and sure.
From A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry by Various
Stars, for my mariner sparkle, As the nights darkle!
From Targum by Borrow, George Henry
In the fitful light darkle and gleam the swarthy-hued faces around them.
From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Gordon, Hanford Lennox
"Well, I think so," said the lady, while the girl darkled and bridled in young helplessness.
From The Coast of Bohemia by Howells, William Dean
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 Howells, William Dean
Thus to their hopeless eyes the night was shown, And grimly darkled o'er the faces pale, And the dim desolate deep: twelve days had Fear Been their familiar, and now Death was here.—Byron.
From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)
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 Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
We were standing in front of her cottage, that darkled in the trees.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Kemp, Harry
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 plump, glossy larvae of the darkling beetle, nicknamed “superworms” perhaps because of their size, are usually content to munch on wheat bran.
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2022
Her silver was trotting through the grass, to a darkling stream beneath a sea of stars.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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