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His would always be a tough love given freely at the dusky ending of the day
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itself, letting in golden light where there should have been dusky
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The storm-darkened sky, beautiful in its dusky radiance, was a dire signal to cut her perceived losses and seek refuge for the night
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His features were classically Imperial, dusky and striking
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One door was immediately swung back to admit us, but the dusky janitors nearly dropped with astonishment when two presumptuous white men entered
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The woods were very dusky by this time; but
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There silhouetted against the dusky West was the military Raptor unmanned aircraft hovering over the path
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Pretty soon, daylight became too bright for the naked eye to handle but where the stone lay, it was pleasantly dusky, and one could actually close his eyes and fall asleep with ease
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The night had the better of Laru and made dusky sounds outside the window
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When Maggie looked down the earth was a dusky colour, streaked with the glowing silver of rivers, lakes, and the seas themselves
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Of the fifteen Sounds they only could contemplate the Dusky, the Doubtful and the
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magnificent natural spout of fjords and still covered with mist, Doubtful Sound is less impressive than Dusky Sound for in two and a half-hours of its crossing, only fewer islands, lower hills and fewer and less impressive waterfalls could be found
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And again I said: Lord thereafter what will You do? And I heard a voice saying to me: Hear righteous John; Then shall appear the denier and he who is set apart in the darkness who is called Antichrist; And again I said: Lord reveal to me what he is like; And I heard a voice saying to me: The appearance of his face is dusky; the hairs of his head are sharp like darts; his eyebrows like a wild beast's; his right eye like the star which rises in the morning and the other like a lion's; his mouth about one cubit; his teeth span long; his fingers like scythes; the print of his feet of two spans; and on his face an inscription Antichrist; he shall be exalted even to Heaven and shall be thrown down even to Hades making false displays; And then will I make the Heaven brazen so that it shall not give moisture on the Earth; and I will hide the clouds in secret places so that they shall not bring moisture on the Earth; and I will command the horns of the wind so that the wind shall not blow on the Earth
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What were we doing to our nation? It was now getting dusky and we left again
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So they passed out of the dusky hall into the clear blaze of the summer sun
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She scanned the rocks nervously, then, with a shuddering suspicion, crept to the north edge of the cliff and gazed down into the waving green mass below, already dusky with the sunset
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Near him swayed the dusky lotus, and he hastened to draw away from it
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Her dark eyes, shaded by long dusky lashes, were deep with sensuous mystery
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"I came here when a young girl," she answered, leaning lithely back against the velvet divan, and intertwining her slender fingers behind her dusky head
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I am a daughter of Luxur, and before I had known fifteen summers I had been led through the temples of Derketo, the dusky goddess, and had been initiated into the mysteries
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For an instant a dimming witchfire glimmered in those dusky depths; then it disappeared and Conan lay staring down into the blackness of the ultimate abyss from which no sound came
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There was no sound of footsteps, but the great dusky form grew more distinct until Conan recognized the figure of a man
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Under its edge the dusky metal of Khosatral's body gave way like common flesh beneath a cleaver
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This dais stood in a great, dim room whose walls were hung with dusky tapestries across which crawled dragons reproduced with repellent realism
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But like an impression left in the gloom, a faint luminance remained, and revealed a slender dusky shaft shooting up from the shadowy floor
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'Black dog of hell!' Conan drove his sword between the dusky shoulders with such vengeful fury that the broad blade stood out half its length from the black breast
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with dusky beauty very rare
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A wind whispered through the black branches, rippling the dusky water
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In the dusky emerald glow of the fire-gems she saw a shadowy figure bending over her
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The people were a mixed race, a dusky nobility ruling a population that was largely pure Negro
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He did not refuse tests devised by the dusky lords
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The slave shuddered and his dusky face went ashen
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Again Thoth shuddered and an ashen hue tinged his dusky skin
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The slave's eyes were blazing, his mouth wide, his huge dusky hands outstretched like talons
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"My Ring—stolen from me—" Steel glittered in the Stygian's hand and with a heave of his great dusky shoulders he drove the dagger into the baron's fat body
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Conan wasted no more breath on his dusky betrayer
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Treachery had its birth in that dusky land
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Each stood in a niche in the dusky stone, and the tiers mounted up and up to be lost in the gloom above
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He towered beside the altar, dusky, naked, with a face like a carven image
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The dusky masters have been driven south of the great river Styx, Nilus, or Nile, which, flowing north from the shadowy hinterlands, turns almost at right angles and flows almost due west through the pastoral meadowlands of Shem, to empty into the great sea
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The Stygians are tall and well made, dusky, straight- featured—at least the ruling classes are of that type
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He could see JY clearly though the dusky light was fading
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Yet checkers still with red the dusky brakes
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Her mother’s eyes, green, like her own and wide, with a slight upward slant at the edges, even in the dusky light seemed sharper than she remembered, but there was a raw austerity in them that made her wary
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He wasn't too successful, especially when she nuzzled up close and he could smell her perfume and the dusky scent of her skin
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It’s as though her whole body is endued with a magnetic layer, isn’t it? If not, how can one explain her dusky complexion? Oh, some god could have turned horny while making her! Why else is she the femme fatale of the first order?’
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Later, your mutual attraction resulted in your passionate liaison that catered to Roopa’s craving for male élan, and yours, for your dusky dame
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I led Bill to my car, parked under the dusky street light
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Grimacing, he crawled into the dusky shade of the trees
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The scene was to be filmed in a dusky light, almost dream sequence surreal
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But the spreading of the conscious self (the spirit) in the darkness, along with its dusky medium, the devil, causes eternal spiritual misery and destruction unless it is followed by true repentance and a retreat from this awful and terrible way
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The old man’s eyes went wide, yellow-white in his dusky face
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He walked towards the white folded piece of paper with a dull and dusky face, and when he unfolded it, his face’s color became even more swarthy and dim
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Laurie was dusky grey and her lips were blue
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Now, when I take my poets up with into the forest, and sit on one of those dusky pine-grown slopes where the light is subdued to a mysterious gray-green and the world is quieted into a listening silence, and far away below the roofs of Jena glisten in the sun, and the white butterflies, like white flowers come to life, flutter after each other across the blue curtain of heat that hangs beyond the trees, now when I open them and begin to read the noble, familiar words, will not those other words, those anecdotes, those personal descriptions, those suggestions, those button holing, leer at me between the lines? Shall I, straining my ears after the music, not be shown now for ever only the instrument, and how pitifully the ivory has come off the keys? Shall I, hungering after my spiritual food, not have pushed upon my notice, so that I am forced to look, the saucepan, tarnished and not quite clean, in which it was cooked? Please don't tell me you can't understand
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So much preoccupied were they, so dusky was the shrub-screened comer, and so light of foot the slender, not to say emaciated, Fanny, that she was upon them before either they or she knew it
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Stars twinkled in the dusky sky
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Her eyebrows were reddish like her hair, and very straight, and her eyelashes lay dusky and long on her white face
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It was clean and convenient, but there were more local children playing in it, darting in and out of the dusky cells like bats
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Morrison, watching their dusky golden curve, "and the girl would have had scarlet hair and white-eyebrows and masses of freckles and been frightful
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I could have come out as dusky as a gipsy
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His heart was beating so hard he could hear it! He was feeling his way through the dusky half-dark when he heard a voice from the jail: “Who are you?”
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He was dressed head to toe in black, his short dusky blonde hair cropped close to his scalp, broad shoulders held proudly
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He looked from the dusky face to the foot of the bed and saw a second man
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Most likely it was my skin tone, so dusky next to Celia's paleness, and the fact I looked nothing at all like either of the people in the pictures he held
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The valuables shone and glittered in the dusky light of the longhouse lamps
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The heavy thrum of three approaching helicopters, flashing lights in the dusky sky over the Hudson
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Her dusky skin and jet black hair had lost their luster
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She was just the right age, three or four years younger than I was; a bright, pretty, dusky girl who was a second year student at the Faculty of Medicine
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Given the dusky
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She was quite exotic looking, with the dusky skin of a Native American, but her eyes were a striking jade green
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When they arrived there, the place appeared dusky and silent
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When Saint Antoine had again enfolded the Defarges in his dusky wings, and they, having finally alighted near the Saint's boundaries, were picking their way on foot through the black mud and offal of his streets, Madame Defarge spoke to her husband:
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Over the dusky green of the rye as it ripples and shades in the breeze; Scaling mountains, pulling myself cautiously up, holding on by low
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For, come, tell me, can there be anything more delightful than to see, as it were, here now displayed before us a vast lake of bubbling pitch with a host of snakes and serpents and lizards, and ferocious and terrible creatures of all sorts swimming about in it, while from the middle of the lake there comes a plaintive voice saying: 'Knight, whosoever thou art who beholdest this dread lake, if thou wouldst win the prize that lies hidden beneath these dusky waves, prove the valour of thy stout heart and cast thyself into the midst of its dark burning waters, else thou shalt not be worthy to see the mighty wonders contained in the seven castles of the seven Fays that lie beneath this black expanse;' and then the knight, almost ere the awful voice has ceased, without stopping to consider, without pausing to reflect upon the danger to which he is exposing himself, without even relieving himself of the weight of his massive armour, commending himself to God and to his lady, plunges into the midst of the boiling lake, and when he little looks for it, or knows what his fate is to be, he finds himself among flowery meadows, with which the Elysian fields are not to be compared
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That was his most perfect idea of heaven's happiness: mine was rocking in a rustling green tree, with a west wind blowing, and bright white clouds flitting rapidly above; and not only larks, but throstles, and blackbirds, and linnets, and cuckoos pouring out music on every side, and the moors seen at a distance, broken into cool dusky dells; but close by great swells of long grass undulating in waves to the breeze; and woods and sounding water, and the whole world awake and wild with joy
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complexion was of the brownest, not of that dusky dun colour which
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Then they began to pass around the dusky, piquant, Arlesian sausages, and lobsters in their dazzling red cuirasses, prawns of large size and brilliant color, the echinus with its prickly outside and dainty morsel within, the clovis, esteemed by the epicures of the South as more than rivalling the exquisite flavor of the oyster,—all the delicacies, in fact, that are cast up by the wash of waters on the sandy beach, and styled by the grateful fishermen "fruits of the sea
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He observed by the vacant expression of the Indian's countenance, that his eye, accustomed to the open air had not yet been able to penetrate the dusky light which pervaded the depth of the cavern
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Here and there a picket had, indeed, raised a song, or mingled in a dance, which had drawn the dusky savages around them, from their lairs in the forest
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Before Major Heyward would imitate this proof of confidence, he glanced his eyes around the plain, and beheld with uneasiness the numerous dusky groups of savages, who looked out from the margin of the surrounding woods, curious spectators of the interview
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The curling and spotless mists, which had been seen sailing above the hills toward the north, were now returning in an interminable dusky sheet, that was urged along by the fury of a tempest
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His head was immovable; nor did he betray the slightest consciousness that any were present, except when his haughty eye rolled toward the dusky forms of the warriors, who stalked in the background silent and sullen observers of the scene
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The dying fires in the clearing cast a dim and uncertain light on the dusky figures that were silently stalking to and fro; and occasionally a brighter gleam than common glanced into the lodge, and exhibited the figure of Uncas still maintaining its upright attitude near the dead body of the Huron
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Each dusky figure seemed a breathing statue, so motionless was the posture, so intense the attention of the individual
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For a moment he sees her there, on his bed, falling back on the dark, glossy furs, laughing, dusky ice frosting her hair, a handful of velvety petals fluttering down to land on her bare breasts
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At such moments it would not have been difficult to have fancied the dusky savage the Prince of Darkness brooding on his own fancied wrongs, and plotting evil
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The instant, however, he was concealed by the foliage of the bushes, his dusky form was to be seen gliding, like that of a serpent, toward the desired treasure
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The delegation partook of luncheon at the conclusion of which the dusky potentate, in the course of a happy speech, freely translated by the British chaplain, the reverend Ananias Praisegod Barebones, tendered his best thanks to Massa Walkup and emphasised the cordial relations existing between Abeakuta and the British empire, stating that he treasured as one of his dearest possessions an illuminated bible, the volume of the word of God and the secret of England's greatness, graciously presented to him by the white chief woman, the great squaw Victoria, with a personal dedication from the august hand of the Royal Donor
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A dusky tumult would flap its wings from one house to another
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She made the sombre crowd cheerful by her erratic and glistening ray; even as a bird of bright plumage illuminates a whole tree of dusky foliage, by darting to and fro, half seen and half concealed amid the twilight of the clustering leaves
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Philosophically considered, therefore, the two passions seem essentially the same, except that one happens to be seen in a celestial radiance, and the other in a dusky and lurid glow
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The angel and apostle of the coming revelation must be a woman, indeed, but lofty, pure, and beautiful; and wise, moreover, not through dusky grief, but the ethereal medium of joy; and showing how sacred love should make us happy, by the truest test of a life successful to such an end!
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As the observation train drew back upriver again for the start of the varsity race, the atmosphere grew electric, the dusky sky crackling with static
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Sir Walter awaited me in a dusky dining-room where a little round table was lit with silver candles
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A human ear would hardly have heard them, but to the rabbits the air was sunshine, but among the firs the light was dusky and here the bats were coming full of their calls
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But the hand which I now saw, clearly enough, in the yellow light of a mid-London morning, lying half shut on the bedclothes, was lean, corder, knuckly, of a dusky pallor and thickly shaded with a swart growth of hair
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"Here," he would say, pointing to a niche in the wall of the dusky aisle, "you see the bust of Don Jose Avellanos, 'Patriot and Statesman,' as the inscription says, 'Minister to Courts of England and Spain, etc
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They were talking no secrets, and the clear unconcerned voice of the young woman, in response to the warmer accents of the man, spread into the chilly air as the one soothing thing within the dusky horizon, full of a stagnant obscurity upon which nothing else intruded