- a variation of murk.
mirk
Britishnoun
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And out of the gathering mirk the Nazgûl came with their cold voices crying words of death; and then all hope was quenched.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
He had taken that tree, and that tree, and that rock as markers of the path...but there was no path, only the mirk, and the twilight, and the pale trees.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
Not a mirk night, for no man ever walked that moor on a mirk night, except one, and he, though blind-fou, was drowned.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
Sometimes, as we looked on His crayon's work, Some angel-face would dawn Out radiant, from the mirk Of features old and thin, Or jowled with double-chin, And eyes asmirk, And gaping mouths agrin.
From The Old Soldiers Story Poems and Prose Sketches by James Whitcomb Riley
It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sons came hame, 20 And their hats were o' the birk.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
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