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Keep "darksome" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.
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5 total sentences available.
She sat upon one of the disjointed stones of the ancient fountain, and seemed to watch the progress of its current, as it bubbled forth to daylight, in gay and sparkling profusion, from under the shadow of the ribbed and darksome vault.
Source: tatoeba (7760580)
His fiery eies are fixt vpon the earth. / As if he now deuiſ’d some Stratageme: / Or meant to pierce Auernus darkſome vauts. / To pull the triple headed dog from hell.
Source: wiktionary
That sometimes from the savage den, / And sometimes from the darksome shade, / And sometimes staring up at once / In green and sunny glade.
Source: wiktionary
I did not like re-entering Thornfield. To pass its threshold was to return to stagnation: to cross the silent hall, to ascend the darksome staircase, to seek my own lonely little room, and then to meet tranquil Mrs. Fairfax, and spend the long winter evening with her and her only, was to quell wholly the faint excitement wakened by my walk,—to slip again over my faculties the viewless fetters of an uniform and too still existence; of an existence whose very privileges of security and ease I was becoming incapable of appreciating.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include black, dark, dark, darkish, dim.
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