Lexicographical Neighbors of Darked
Literary usage of Darked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"And that he maie doen so, 1 will wipe his iyen a little, that be darked by the
cloude of mortal! ..."
2. The Poems of William Dunbar by William Dunbar, Aeneas James George Mackay, George Powell McNeill (1893)
"Cp. the following— " |'e child )'an darked in his den ... And— " Drawe him in to
his den ] darked )'er stille."—Ibid., p. 238, l. 42. ..."
3. Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern by Reginald Brimley Johnson (1894)
"My summer's day in lusty May Is darked before the noon. ... Why say ye so?
Whither will ye go? Alas, what have ye done? red, plan. darked, darkened. ..."
4. The Legend of Good Women by Geoffrey Chaucer, Walter William Skeat (1889)
"The child than darked in his den'; Will, of Palerne, 17; 'drawe [drew] him into
his den, and darked ther stille'; id. 44. And again in the same poem, ll. ..."