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Definition of Darklings
1. darkling [n] - See also: darkling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Darklings
Literary usage of Darklings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"Here again we are cowled in the precarious scraps and darklings of an aggravating
incompleteness. Some say he went to Spain, planting there <M ..."
2. The Story of Spanish Paintingby Charles Henry Caffin by Charles Henry Caffin (1910)
"The "Naturalists" were also addicted to the use of dark shadows, which gained
for them the nickname of "darklings." Between them and the "Eclectics" there ..."
3. The World's Painters and Their Pictures by Deristhe Levinte Hoyt (1898)
"Tenebrosi " (darklings) has been given to the followers of the school. It is one
of the least important of the Italian schools. ..."
4. The Story of French Paintingby Charles Henry Caffin by Charles Henry Caffin (1911)
"Neither the blacks of Caravaggio and the school of the darklings, nor the reds
of Rubens, nor the grays of Van Dyck, nor the browns of Hobbema and Ruisdael; ..."
5. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1872)
"RR The addition of the adverbial termination ling or lings, as in darklings,
blind- lings, &c., ..."
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