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
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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
Should It never Curb or cure Aught whatever Those endure Whom It quickens, let them darkle to extinction swift and sure.
From A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry by Various
Stars, for my mariner sparkle, As the nights darkle!
From Targum by George Henry Borrow
Canst thou shine now, then darkle, And being latent, feel thyself no less?
From Poems Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson
And the fire-flies wink and darkle, Crowded swarms that soar and sparkle, And in wildering escort gather!
From Faust by Bayard Taylor
Down below the twilight darkled in the streets.
From Orrain A Romance by S. Levett-Yeats
We were standing in front of her cottage, that darkled in the trees.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp
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
Against the horizon a peasant boy leaned on his staff and darkled against the darkening sky.
From Familiar Spanish Travels by William Dean Howells
I was so far from wishing myself to smile at it, that I darkled most respectfully about it, without the courage to inquire directly into the mystery.
From Seven English Cities by William Dean Howells
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
Across the United States this autumn, exhibitions and collection displays of historical treasures promise to elucidate our own darkling age.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
Before them, darkling against a pallid sky, the great mountains reared their threatening heads.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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