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murky Adjective [murkier, murkiest] 1. gloomy or dark 2. cloudy or hard to see through: a murky stagnant pond 3. obscure and suspicious; shady: murky goings-on, his murky past murkily adv
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| It was the wintry, murky time of cold gales and heavy seas. It needs scarcely to be told, with what feelings, on the eve of a Nantucket voyage, I regarded those marble tablets, and by the murky light of that darkened, doleful day read the fate of the whalemen who had gone before me, Yes, Ishmael, the same fate may be thine. There they sat winking, while the summer-house was cleared of the rank growth that had choked it up, while the rotten wood-work was renewed, while all the murky place was purified with air and light. |
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