darkle

“You remember that darkle we had in the grenadier company?”

Sharpe's Devil

“Whom It quickens, let them darkle to extinction swift and sure.”

A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry

“By it we have acquired many every-day words, among them, to accept (from acceptum), to exact (from exactum), to darkle (from darkling), and pea (from pease = pois).”

Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 3. The Expanding Vocabulary

“Say any dream of all the dreams that drift and darkle, glint and glow,”

Dreams and Dust

“A single hobgoblin bassoon croaks ludicrously away, the pixies darkle and flirt and dance their hearts out of them.”

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions

“In the fitful light darkle and gleam the swarthy-hued faces around them.”

Legends of the Northwest

“And her proud brow's blue veins to swell and darkle.”

Don Juan

“darkle, I doubt if you could have pulled that stunt with daddy in my school then o!”

The Whipping

“The rough pine-floors showed a black border of tack-heads where carpets had been lifted and put down for generations; the white paint was yellow with age; the apartment had light at the front and at the back, and two or three rooms had glimpses of the day through small windows let into their corners; another one seemed lifting an appealing eye to heaven through a glass circle in its ceiling; the rest must darkle in perpetual twilight.”

Complete March Family Trilogy