Just above yon sandy bar,
As the day grows fainter and dimmer.
Lonely and lovely, a single star
Lights the air with a dusky glimmer. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

The champion true
Loves victory more when, dim in view,
He sees her glories gild afar
The dusky edge of stubborn war,
Than if th' untrodden bloodless field
The harvest of her laurels yield. [ Keble ]

Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation. [ Beaumont ]

Midnight brought on the dusky hour friendliest to sleep and silence. [ Milton ]

When the glad sun, exulting in his might, comes from the dusky-curtained tents of night. [ Emma G. Embary ]

Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining. [ Adam Clarke ]