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Blackly

Blackly \Black"ly\, adv. In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously. ``Deeds so blackly grim and horrid.''
--Feltham.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
blackly

1560s, from black (adj.) + -ly (2).

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blackly

adv. In a black manner; darkly or gloomily

Usage examples of "blackly".

And suddenly and most wonderfully the door of the room upstairs opened of its own accord, and as they looked up in amazement, they saw descending the stairs the muffled figure of the stranger staring more blackly and blankly than ever with those unreasonably large blue glass eyes of his.

Onward--onward--through the screaming, cackling, and blackly populous gulfs--and then from some dim blessed distance there came an image and a thought to Randolph Carter the doomed.

He had one of the longest beards of all the men, curling blackly half way down his chest.

Rannach sat his borrowed horse beside a pillar of stone shining blackly with frozen meltwater, urging on the youngsters herding the loose horses.

I had looked for poignant wonder and inspiration in the teeming labyrinths of ancient streets that twist endlessly from forgotten courts and squares and waterfronts to courts and squares and waterfronts equally forgotten, and in the Cyclopean modern towers and pinnacles that rise blackly Babylonian under waning moons, I had found instead only a sense of horror and oppression which threatened to master, paralyze, and annihilate me.

The sniffer glanced at the invitations, curling blackly in the fire, and winced.

The moon came up behind the city, etching walls and towers blackly in the yellow glow.

There was Valerian, with his fierce eyes blazing, and a dark, wildly beautiful girl in doeskin loin-clout and beaded moccasins, and her blackly burnished hair bound back by a gold band, curiously wrought.

But while he pondered, they came to the steel grille, etched blackly in the torches beyond, and the body of Shukeli, still slumped against the bars in a curdled welter of crimson.

It was blackly stained, and showed many deep nicks as if a keen edge, cutting through some yielding substance, had sunk into the wood.

The buffalo backed away, wet hooves shining blackly as they danced before One Who Cries' nose.

The southern half, from the rim down as far as they could see, gleamed blackly, smoothly, its surface interrupted by occasional vertical ridges, softly rounded, that ran convergently into the depths.

Han was slumped in the copilots seat, scowling blackly at the star-lined void of hyperspace.

The oil slick stretched, blackly glistening, signaling some stock-footage message of a hasty decampment by the light of the carriage lamp that had been switched on against her late return by Phoebe who kept an eye out for Betsy.

It was a strange, isolated place, filled with the mismatched flora of two states: stagnant lakes dotted with dead cypress, solitary oaks in the middle of flat pasture, tangles of blackjack along the edges of coulees, an alluvial fan of sand dunes that were crested with salt grass and from which protruded tall palm trees silhouetted blackly against the sun.