| It flickered, and struggled with the duskiness, but could not half light up the gloomy cavern with all its melancholy glimmer. |
| Was it the duskiness of the evening, or passion, that made his face so dark? |
| Our voices have the knowing, late-night duskiness of alto-sax jazz. |
| At last our old friend, the brook, peeped out again from the duskiness, and we pitched our camp on the bank. |
| Her eyes, over which heavy lashes drooped diffidently, were bafflingly deep, as with rich colour drowned in duskiness. |
| He remarked the hat she wore, and the delicacy of a little ear against her hair's duskiness. |
