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Definition of Duskier
1. dusky [adj] - See also: dusky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Duskier
Literary usage of Duskier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"I might mistake my dearest son. But never the Son who cannot change. ALICE MEYNELL.
WILLY TO JINNY. duskier than the clouds that lie 'Tween ..."
2. The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak, T. Arundel Harcourt, Albert Goldschmidt, Walter Mulrea Fisher, William Nemos (1874)
"The Toon- glas are duskier; ... The former are distinguished by a somewhat ruddy
hue, with a hooked nose; while his duskier brother is taller, ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1852)
"The sky at first slate-colored, became duskier and duskier : not the twinkle of
a star was to be seen. I felt my fate for the present fixed. ..."
4. White Conquest by William Hepworth Dixon (1876)
"Does Nature mean her duskier children to be seized and made to labour for the
fairer kinds? The red ants hunt them down. A red ant is no bigger in body, ..."
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