dusky

• Her relief vanished as a dusky-eyed stranger broke from their ranks and started for Justin Emily slumped with a long-suffering sigh, awaiting the deferent bow, the adoring squeal of "Pakeha Justin, my darling!" —  Teresa Medeiros - Once An Angel
• She saw a tick that was somewhat dusky, as if spoiled. —  Demons Don't Dream
• He looked at the Somers pair with eyes gone dusky, as if unseeing, and the mask-like smile lingering on his face like the reflection from some fire, curiously natural, not even grotesque. —  Lawrence - Kangaroo
• I stood looking at a dusky island in the moonlight, and began praying a favorite prayer of mine for those times, asking God to let Saint Michael cover our heads in the day of battle. —  Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales
• In the window of one of these cabins we saw a face--dusky, beautiful, sensitive. —  Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska

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