murky
adjective
dark, gloomy, and cheerless.
Example Sentences
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Such daylight as followed was dim; for here as the Mountain drew near the air was ever mirky, while out from the Dark Tower there crept the veils of Shadow that Sauron wove about himself.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
She spoke; the other slipped adown the lightsome air of heaven, With wrapping cloak of mirky cloud about her body driven.
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by William Morris
His forehead, covered with his curls, is as a mirky night; Unveiled, 'tis as a shining moon that thrusts the dark aside.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by John Payne
Thick flies their spear-storm: 'tis as when the Strymon cranes give forth Their war-sign on the mirky rack, and down the heavens they run Sonorous, fleeing southern breeze with clamour following on.
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by William Morris
It thunders—and from midnight’s mirky cloud, Comes peal on peal reverberating loud: The froth-clad breakers cast, with sullen roar, A Scottish bark upon the whiten’d shore.
From Romantic Ballads, Translated from the Danish; and Miscellaneous Pieces by George Henry Borrow
