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Palely   Listen
adverb
Palely  adv.  In a pale manner; dimly; wanly; not freshly or ruddily.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Palely" Quotes from Famous Books



... thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has withered from the lake, And no ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 2 (of 4) • Various

... off water-fall, were faintly heard. The twinkling fire-fly arose from the surrounding verdure and illuminated the air with a thousand transient gleams. The mingling discordance of curs and watch-dogs echoed in the distant village, from whence the frequent lights darted their palely lustre thro' the gloom. The solitary whippoorwills stationed themselves along the woody glens, the groves and rocky pastures, and sung a requiem to departed summer. A dark cloud was rising in the west, across whose gloomy front the vivid lightning ...
— Alonzo and Melissa - The Unfeeling Father • Daniel Jackson, Jr.

... walking along the firm, hard road, and the fresh air was exhilarating—the sunshine, thin and wintry though it was, gilded palely the little shallow lakes and pools left by the outgoing tide along the shore, for it was almost low water now. Even the bare stretches of sand did not look ugly, as they sometimes do—a touch of sunshine makes ...
— The Rectory Children • Mrs Molesworth

... the enormous, double-headed body advanced until it completely enveloped the forward part of the Astronef. The two hideous heads came close to the sides of the conning-tower; the huge, palely luminous eyes looked in upon them. Zaidie, in her terror, even thought that she saw something like human curiosity ...
— A Honeymoon in Space • George Griffith



Words linked to "Palely" :   pallidly, pale, dimly



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