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And so it flew, now a hovering buzzard, now a darking bee until the seventh day.

From Time Magazine Archive

Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

Old Laurence, as he smoked his lonely pipe in the grass-grown courtyard, would cast a disturbed glance at it, as it softly glowed out through the darking aperture, and mutter a prayer or an oath.

From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 2 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Closely scanned, They are gross worms, each with the thought to grow "The Conqueror," as staged by Edgar Poe For darking planets and a world, Last Manned.

From Freedom, Truth and Beauty by Doyle, Edward