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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Canst thou shine now, then darkle, And being latent, feel thyself no less?
From Poems Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where a fallen sycamore Whitely arches a pathway o'er, And shadows darkle The lambent cool, As, softly a-sparkle.
From Nirvana Days by Cale Young Rice
And the fire-flies wink and darkle, Crowded swarms that soar and sparkle, And in wildering escort gather!
From Faust by Bayard Taylor
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
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 F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter
Northward, a forest darkled, whose glades of brightness I could not see.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various
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
We were standing in front of her cottage, that darkled in the trees.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp
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
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
His face was long, with a high forehead, he had deep darkling eyes, hard to fathom, though the look that they now bore was grave and benevolent, and a little weary.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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