shadowily

But gradually, one after another looming shadowily under their hoods, the crucifixes seem to create a new atmosphere over the whole of the countryside, a darkness, a weight in the air that is so unnaturally bright and rare with the reflection from the snows above, a darkness hovering just over the earth.

Twilight in Italy 2003

He hurried to it, thinking of the fine supper the kind-hearted farmers would doubtless give him, when, just as he reached the gate of the door-yard, there was a most blood-curdling uproar, and two or three furious dogs came bounding shadowily toward him.

The Dozen from Lakerim Rupert Hughes 1914

On the port bow there was a big one more distant and shadowily imposing by the great space of sky it eclipsed.

The Secret Sharer 1911

But gradually, one after another looming shadowily under their hoods, the crucifixes seem to create a new atmosphere over the whole of the countryside, a darkness, a weight in the air that is so unnaturally bright and rare with the reflection from the snows above, a darkness hovering just over the earth.

Twilight in Italy 1907

For the rest, faded and peaked, he hurried shadowily down to the club.

The Lost Girl 1907

And as she felt the returning pressure of his large, powerful, protective grasp, she covered -- but in imagination only -- she covered his face, which she could shadowily see, with brave and abandoned kisses; and she whispered to him, but unheard: 'Admit that I am made for love.'

Leonora Arnold Bennett 1899

On the port bow there was a big one more distant and shadowily imposing by the great space of sky it eclipsed.

The Secret Sharer Joseph Conrad 1890

On the port bow there was a big one more distant and shadowily imposing by the great space of sky it eclipsed.

'Twixt Land and Sea Joseph Conrad 1890

They reveal Rousseau to us with a truth beyond that attained in any of his other pieces -- a mournful sombre figure, looming shadowily in the dark glow of sundown among sad and desolate places.

Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880

"Sunny spots of greenery," with the bell-towers of demolished cloisters shadowily showing above their trees; -- for in the days of the Republic nearly every one of the islands had its monastery and its church.

Venetian Life William Dean Howells 1878