An almost irresistible impulse all but controlled him to crush her to him, to kiss her lips and her throat, to lose his fingers in the soft, shadowy fineness of her hair.
The gate latch clicked and two shadowy figures defined themselves approaching up the concrete walk.
In silence once more they returned to the shadowy low library filled with its evidences of good taste.
Deirdre and Conchubar, and Angus and Maeve and Dectora and all the shadowy figures in them scarcely become embodied.
Arthur is at once too legendary and too shadowy for an epic hero, and nothing but the treatment that Milton gave to Satan (i.
That inner room was, even more than the hall, haunted by the shadowy presence of Juan.
Then they had turned off the lights and gone away together, and the house had sunk into shadowy repose.
Against the shadowy front of the house opposite, two figures were vaguely discernible, the taller a little darker than the encompassing space, the other a little lighter.
The party was soon winding through theshadowy aisles of a live-oak forest.
It was but the shadowy reflection of a coming deed that should forever stain my soul with a deeper red, that the years of eternity could never efface.
Across the shadowy fields a pale sheet of water gleamed out in moonlight.
In the shadowy light of her drawing-room, he was almost like a spirit sitting there in his grey tweed--silvery from head to foot.
The fisherman, who lies afloat, With shadowy sail, in yonder boat, Is singing softly to the Night!
Suddenly a shadowyfigure whirled toward them out of the darkness.
But the shadowy figure turned out to be only Jo Perkins on his bicycle.
Thus, while we read, while we write, the shadowy procession is passing; the good are being gathered into life, and heaven enriched by the garnered treasures of earth.
When we got out before the abbey there was enough light behind the Eildon Hills to throw their three shadowy cones out distinctly to view, and to touch with a gloaming, uncertain ray the ivy-clad walls.
Now blue and shadowy loom up the distant form of the Youghal Mountains, (pronounced Yoole.
Our teeth fairly chattered as we dipped into the cold shadowy hollows; but the level rays of the rising sun caught us as we topped the ridges, and cheered us with an ample promise of a warm time to come.
The gradient of the northern face is distinctly steeper than the southern, and the road zigzags down sharply through the shadowy pine-woods which clothe all this portion of the range.
The sombre light in Renee's eyes quickened through shadowy spheres of surprise and pain to resolution.
He was awakened by light on his eyelids, and starting up beheld the many pinnacles of grey and red rocks and shadowy high white regions at the head of the gulf waiting for the sun; and the sun struck them.
Colonel Halkett was obliged to enter into a consultation, of a shadowy sort, with his daughter, whose only advice was that they should leave the castle.
These mortal hills, this flickering sea, This shadowy and thoughtful night, Throb with infinity, Burn with immortal light.
If a bat flitted it was an evil thing; Sadder the trees grew with every shadowy wing-- Their shape enlarged, their arms quivered, their thought Stirring in the leaves a silent anguish wrought.
But from the increasing shadowiness is spun A shadowy shape growing clear to sight, And fading.
Curled shadowyby the wall a servant slept: A sleepy hound from the same corner crept.
For an instant Arthur stood staring at him, or rather at the space beyond him, as if trying to recall something too distant or too shadowy to assume any tangible form; then bursting into a laugh he said: 'Gretchen a child!
And now and then a tiny green frog would come out of a shadowy nook in the bank of the stream to see what the little girl was doing; or a bird would drop from out the blue sky for a drink or a bath in the pebbly shallows.
As the twilight deepened, the elms in the pasture across the road, the maples along the drive, and the willows down by the creek, became shadowy and indistinct.
And often when the night Has drawn her shadowy veil, And solemn stars look forth Serenely pure and pale, A spectre bark and form May still be seen to glide, In wondrous silence down The Laughing Water's tide.
And on the rugged mountain height, Where snow and sunbeam meet, That never yet in storm or shine Was trod by human feet, A weird and spectral presence came Between me and the light; The waving of a shadowy hand That faded into night.
The shadowysilences Have made me beautiful and dressed me in velvet dignities, And that is why The noise of tambourines has maddened my soul into dancing, And I am clad In the lust-lipped whispering of furtive caresses.
And happiness expands The rainbow arch for a procession of dreams, For moth-like fancies winged with evening, For dove-breasted silences, For shadowy reveries And starry pilgrims.
And I can hear the call of birds and bells And shadowy sound of waves, and wind through leaves And wind that rustles through the burnished sheaves, And far off voices whispering farewells.
We will go there, you and I, to wake the nodding contentment, And toast our fancies reverently with red wine and with white wine, And with eyes mesmerised to the horizon gazing, Dream our iridescent dreams and sigh our shadowy sighs.
As though a shadowy part of him were detached from his body, and mounted guard over it.
He sawshadowy figures appear, one after another, and take stations at the four corners of the house.
As the shadowyforms hesitated, he picked up a stick and hurled it at them.
Then, of a sudden, his shadowy visage became contorted and he jerked up his rifle and threw a cartridge into the magazine.
And yet, somehow, every quivering instinct within her was telling her that the crouched and shadowy watcher beyond the fire was Quintana.
And in her dark and shadowy eye There dwelt a tender light, Like some soft trembling star that shines Upon the brow of night.
Other eyes have learned to look upon the mountains, and trace ideal imagery upon their shadowy sides.
Their shadowy forms are floating round, In parlor and in hall; They come and go without a sound,-- As night dews gently fall.
Shadows of the Past Sister, the solemn midnight hour Is meet, to weave the web of thought, To trace the shadowy imagery, From fancy's secret chambers brought.
Thus did old Scotia's ancient bard, Hold converse with the dead; "Back in the dim and shadowy past; Those phantoms all had fled.
But we will sit calmly down upon the teacher's desk and recall the dim shadowy forms of the past, the by-gone past.
They seemed more shadowy and unreal, and now and then Fern felt a little dull.
Come soon to the island, dear Emile," she said, suddenly and with the impulsiveness that was part of her, forgetting all her jealousy and all her shadowy fears.
Hermione spoke in a low voice, pointing to the shadowy form of a boat upon the Pool.
She looked again at the other boat, searching the shadowy blackness for the form of Ruffo.
Very faint they were, scarcely relieved against the night, very still and dumb--two shadowy darknesses, Emile and Vere sitting together in silence.
And as her eyes became accustomed to their environment she perceived that the pallor without was impinged upon by two shadowy darknesses.
And the love that is mingled with regret has surely something shadowy in it.
It was very dark, but she saw the shadowy shape of a fishing-boat lying close to the rock.
The gray was lifting a little over Naples, the distant shadowy form of Vesuvius was becoming clearer, more firm in outline.
And he could not tell the Marchesino the truth of his shadowy colloquy in a by-street with the old creature from behind the shutter.
Treading softly he obeyed her, and sat down near her, facing the shadowy coast.
Take one instance, omitting others; which happily proves to be the finish of that first shadowy line, and introduces us to a new set very slightly more substantial.
We passed under the shadowy arch and down a cool stone passage to yet another heavy door that barred our way.
Grim nudged me sharply in one shadowy place, where the street went down in twenty-foot-long steps between the high walls of windowless harems.
After what seemed like a long-drawn hour we sawshadowy arms below reach up and seize our prisoner.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shadowy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
