It was now so nearly sunset that the chamber had grown duskier than ever; but a mild and moon-like splendor gleamed from within the vase, and rested alike on the four guests, and on the doctor's venerable figure.

The man cursed once, blasphemously, his face dusky and evil in the eerie firelight, but immediately turned back to his talk.

Her hand, still holding my roses, went up to her face, and her cheek glowed dusky and pink against the yellow petals.

The hall grew dusky; she heard a far-off cry, and when she meant to flee, she fainted in her chair.

It was a lovely June twilight; the bats were flitting about like the children of the gloamin', and the lamps of the laburnum and lilac hung dusky among the trees of Osterfield Park.

" It was marvellous (or rather would have been so to a stranger,) to hear this poor old dusky blacksmith, speaking and reasoning as he did; but who shall limit or set bounds to the power of the Lord the Spirit in enlightening the mind, independently as it were, of human ministry, or at least of any other ministry than that which teaches and promulgates the mere letter of Scripture?

" But could their vision now extend To those bright realms where dwells their friend, Their tears would cease to flow; They'd long to leave this dusky sphere, And from their lips we soon should hear, "Dear Savior, let me go.

A wind came shrieking over the hills, and long before evening the little town lay dusky in a scud of snow mist.

11. 'Now to the blest abode, with wonder fill'd, The sun and moving planets he beheld; Then, looking down on the sun's feeble ray, Survey'd our dusky, faint, imperfect day, And under what a cloud of night we lay.

(Pellæa, from the Greek pellos, meaning dusky, in allusion to the dark stipes.) (1) PURPLE CLIFF BRAKE.

Because of them the name of England of my heart might be but Happiness, oras for ages we have named that far-off dusky Arabia,Anglia Felix.

On approaching near where the two were engaged in some weird incantation the voyageur overheard the dusky maiden impart a strange message to the paleface by her side.

It was the wild music of the boatman's horn winding its way back from the little ship, now far away and rounding the dusky bend.

As I passed Cato, the old man bowed till his coat-cuffs hung covering his dusky, wrinkled fingers.

Perched on the seat was a Greek who turned his dusky face up toward the two women leaning over the porch railings.