Wiktionary
a. (obsolete spelling of dark English) n. (obsolete spelling of dark English)
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 21583
Land area (2000): 599.798031 sq. miles (1553.469702 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.489384 sq. miles (1.267498 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 600.287415 sq. miles (1554.737200 sq. km)
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.127147 N, 84.611169 W
Headwords:
Darke, OH
Darke County
Darke County, OH
Wikipedia
Darke may refer to:
- Dark (alternate spelling)
- Darke (surname)
- Drake (rapper)
- Darke County, Ohio
- Darke County Airport
- Darke Lake Provincial Park
- Darke Peak, South Australia
-
, US Navy Haskell-class attack transport
- Darke (novel), the sixth book in the child fantasy Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage
Darke is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Francis Nicholson Darke (1863-1940), Leading citizen of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Harold Darke (1888-1976), English composer and organist
- Ian Darke, English football and boxing commentator
- Jack Darke (c.1852–1897), British-born miller who spent his later life in the town of Gold Rush in Queensland, Australia
- John Charles Darke (1806–1844), Surveyor and explorer in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania ) and South Australia
- Nick Darke (1948-2005), British playwright
- General William Darke (1736–1801), American soldier
- William Wedge Darke (1810–1890), Australian colonist and surveyor
Fictional characters:
- Sebastian Darke, eponymous hero of a series of children's novels written by British author Philip Caveney
Usage examples of "darke".
The day gan failen, and the darke night, That reaveth* beastes from their business, *taketh away Berefte me my book for lack of light, And to my bed I gan me for to dress,* *prepare Full fill'd of thought and busy heaviness.
Who so in pompe of proud estate (quoth she)Does swim, and bathes himselfe in courtly blis,Does waste his dayes in darke obscuritee,And in obliuion euer buried is:Where ease abounds, yt's eath to doe amis.
First shee had a great abundance of haire, dispersed and scattered about her neck, on the crowne of her head she bare many garlands enterlaced with floures, in the middle of her forehead was a compasse in fashion of a glasse, or resembling the light of the Moone, in one of her hands she bare serpents, in the other, blades of corne, her vestiment was of fine silke yeelding divers colours, sometime yellow, sometime rosie, sometime flamy, and sometime (which troubled my spirit sore) darke and obscure, covered with a blacke robe in manner of a shield, and pleated in most subtill fashion at the skirts of her garments, the welts appeared comely, whereas here and there the starres glimpsed, and in the middle of them was placed the Moone, which shone like a flame of fire, round about the robe was a coronet or garland made with flowers and fruits.
Sorrow had gathered to Tahquil-Rohain from all its hiding places in the woods of Darke: from empty nests and buds untimely shriveled.