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"Darkling" Quotes from Famous Books

... my brother died, 'T was but a fatal chance; For darkling was the battle tried, And ...

— The Lady of the Lake • Sir Walter Scott

... night and gave the fatal wound." The warriors scoured the country miles around, Seeking for sign or trail, but naught they found: The murderer left behind no clue or trace More than a vampire's flight through darkling space. ...

— Indian Legends of Minnesota • Various

... which life was no longer endurable. The wind-swept crests, the undulating, barren plains no longer spoke of a boundless freedom and the elemental battle. These things had become something to forget in the absorbing claim of a life to come, wherein the harshness of battle had no place. The darkling woods, scarce trodden by the foot of man, no longer possessed the mystic charm of childhood's fancy. The trackless wastes held only threat, upon which watchful eyes would now gladly close. The stirring glacial fields ...

— The Triumph of John Kars - A Story of the Yukon • Ridgwell Cullum

... about it! All us girls think it ever so romantic, and we call you sometimes the lord of the realm, and when we see you walking through the darkling wood at evenfall we say, ‘My lord is brooding ...

— The House of a Thousand Candles • Meredith Nicholson

... our pain with foolish, unfounded hopes and he never permits mad despair to paralyse him. He takes life as it is, and, as we all have to do, makes the best of its confusions. If we are here "as on a darkling plain, swept by confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night," we can at least be "true to ...

— Visions and Revisions - A Book of Literary Devotions • John Cowper Powys

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