He darkly hinted that the mutinous spirit of certain regiments was said to be extending, but he wrote this with all the reserve of an official, and the fear that Aunt Grainger might misquote him.
Prometheus defies the power of his enemy, and endures centuries of torture; till the hour arrives when Jove, blind to the real event, but darkly guessing that some great good to himself will flow, espouses Thetis.
Some were ribald, some jocose, some so darkly explanatory that intelligence could not peer through the mist or could only divine that these hated their wives.
The first attendant, to whom he had spoken, glanced darkly at the second door of the room, which remained closed.
But Aladdin mused darklyuntil his eyes rested upon his lamp.
Thee, great restorer of the world, the song Darkly described, and that mysterious shrine That bore thee o'er the desolate abyss, When the earth sank with all its noise!
Wave o'er the world beneath their shadow spread; Who darkly speedest on thy destined way, Midst shrieks and cries, and sounds of dire dismay; Spirit!
The youngster did not smile either to himself darkly or at his servant.
Then a horror as of a writhing whiteness Winds out of the July glare And stops the flow of his blood, As he hears from the re-echoing room The voice of Widow La Rue Moving darkly between banks Of delirious fear and woe!
The theology of Zoroaster was darkly comprehended by foreigners, and even by the far greater number of his disciples; but the most careless observers were struck with the philosophic simplicity of the Persian worship.
The same custom is more darkly insinuated by Mela, l.
The treacherous language of panegyrics and medals darkly announces a long series of victories.
But now that he was alone and unobserved, a troubled look had settled on his face, and his brow was as darkly clouded as it had been serene before.
Wanda stopped in her walk, and looked darkly across at the speaker.
The young Countess's eyes were fixed, darkly meditative, on her companion's face, as though she must and would decipher some enigma there.
So passed all too swiftly three full years--years crowded with work and play and many rare experiences--and less darkly shadowed by the spectre that had stalked beside them ever since their marriage.
I do not like to make insinuations, but I do think the above statistics darkly suggest that these people over here drink this detestable water "on the sly.
Dimly and darkly had the sombre shadows of a summer's night fallen upon all around, when they again reached Dingley Dell, and stood within the entrance to Manor Farm.
He turned sharply, and by a play of light it seemed that at one of them there stood looking down on us out of the distance a shape that so had watched for ever, leering darkly out of the void.
The showman, leering avariciously at me out of his shifty eyes, led us on towards the huge ballooning tent, its pennon fluttering darkly against the stars.
Some darkly insinuate that neighboring organizations have sidetracked those turkeys.
Some of the boys lugubriously predicted that I would never return, while others darkly insinuated that they suspected I was “goin’ to Paris to git married.
Mrs. Transome had darkly felt the pressure of that unchangeable fact.
Here a cross is darkly outlined on my forehead--right here--look.
The crosses stood out darkly but vaguely against this background, and at the foot of the middle cross white kneeling figures were seen indistinctly.
He brooded a while, fixing the candidate with a clear darklyburning eye.
It was a wholly unforeseen development, and the parrot, ruffling its feathers, edged along its perch and brooded darkly at the other end of it.
The expert went away grumbling, and the father, after another glance, which showed him his daughter nestling comfortably on the mate's right shoulder, stole away and brooded darklyover this crowning complication.
The mate flung his on the floor and crunched it beneath his heel, then he thrust his hands in his pockets, and, leaning back, scowled darkly up at the rain as it crackled on the skylight.
A scramble of running feet tearing a path through the brush, a crouching body showing darkly for an eyeflash, and then the pounding of a horse's retreating feet.
He glanced at Hughie, whose hands were trembling in spite of him, and then darkly at the brute who was attacking him.
The inhabitants darkly handsome, gentle in manner, and never in a hurry, seemed born for such a soft luxurious home.
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