shadowy
/ˈʃæd.oʊ.i/ adjective B1- In shadow; darkened by shadows. · He sat in a shadowy corner.
- Dark, obscure. · He was a shadowy man who rarely spoke.
- Vague, dim, unclear, faint.
Comparative shadowier · Superlative shadowiest
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The boys, who had to wriggle hastily down from the trees, were later; and Anne, who had not been picking gum at all but was wandering happily in the far end of the grove, waist deep among the bracken, singing softly to herself, with a wreath of rice lilies on her hair as if she were some wild divinity of the shadowy places, was latest of all.
Here and there the lane was splashed with it, but for the most part it was already quite shadowy beneath the maples, and the spaces under the firs were filled with a clear violet dusk like airy wine.
The cry had been loud on account of its vehemence, but it had pealed out from somewhere far off on the shadowy plain.
Then as the moon rose we climbed to the top of the rocks over which our poor friend had fallen, and from the summit we gazed out over the shadowy moor, half silver and half gloom.
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