mirk

/ mɜːk /

noun

1. a variant spelling of murk 1

Other Word Forms

• mirkily adverb
• mirkiness noun
• mirky adjective

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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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.

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‘Anything that can keep so in this devil’s mirk,’ answered Elfhelm.

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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.

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