mirk
Britishnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Other Word Forms
- mirkily adverb
- mirkiness noun
- mirky adjective
Example Sentences
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The plain was dark with their marching companies, and as far as eyes could strain in the mirk there sprouted, like a foul fungus-growth, all about the beleaguered city great camps of tents, black or sombre red.
From Literature
And out of the gathering mirk the Nazgûl came with their cold voices crying words of death; and then all hope was quenched.
From Literature
‘Anything that can keep so in this devil’s mirk,’ answered Elfhelm.
From Literature
An 1896/97 Scottish Football League Championship Winners' medal, won by James Mirk An 1894/95 Scottish Football League Championship Winners' medal, won by George Scott A Victory Cup Final runners-up medal from 1919, awarded to Bob Mercer A Victory medal awarded posthumously to Harry Wattie, who was killed in action during the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
From BBC
In Scotland strange and weird customs linger, and Sir H. G. Reid in his entertaining volume, “’Tween Gloamin’ and the Mirk,” has related how he himself, during infancy, underwent a mysterious cure for the “falling sickness.”
From Project Gutenberg
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