Darkening

(adj.) becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over; 'the darkening sky' .

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• The room was darkening to his sight; the world was narrowing around him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Biddy cried; the darkening garden, and the lane, and the stars that were coming out, were blurred in my own sight. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• A great square house, with a heavy portico darkening the principal windows, as its master's heavy brows overshadowed his eyes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• While he stood observing the darkening scene somebody came up. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I trace these lines, self-distrustfully, with the shadows of after-events darkening the very paper I write on; and still I say, what could I do? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• With a darkening face my friend strode along the margin, eagerly observant of every muddy stain upon the mossy surface. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• At moments she was a Calvinist, and, sinking into the gulf of religious despair, she saw darkening over her the doom of reprobation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• With a hope ever darkening, and with a heart always growing heavier and heavier, Mr. Lorry passed through this anxious time. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• As the light goes in, the great eyes in the shutters, darkening, seem to close. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• After a darkening hour or so, suddenly the rudder-lines tightened in his hold, and he steered hard towards the Surrey shore. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• My darkening the light made her look up. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Pip, Pip, she said one evening, coming to such a check, when we sat apart at a darkening window of the house in Richmond; will you never take warning? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• With a sudden darkening of the eye and austere fixing of the features she demanded, Have you been asked to interfere? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He showed her into a darkening room, and left her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• We went into the drawing-room with her, and sat down by the darkening window. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.

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