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1563 T. Sackville in W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Induct. sig. R.i^v With visage grym, sterne lookes, and blackely hewed.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella (1591) 40 Since kind or chaunce giues both one libertie, Both sadly blacke, both blackly darkned be.

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre v. xi. 248 This project so blackly blasted with perjury.

1680 J. Phillips Dr. Oates's Narr. Vindicated i. 12 It had been a noble piece of service for such a Grave Father..to have diverted the Tempest so blackly threatning the heads of his dear friends.

1729 Lothario's Answer Sarah the Quaker 4 Did I, when living, prove my Honour clear, To be rejudg'd, and blackly sentenc'd Here?

1798 W. S. Landor Gebir iii. 27 Others, if worse be any, float immerst In prisons blackly green with ropy slime.

1837 T. Campbell Poet. Wks. (new ed.) 326 His shape distinct Was blackly shadow'd on the sunny ground.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iv. xxx. 247 The pool blackly shivering.

1898 H. S. Salt in Dict. National Biogr. LVI. 256/2 His writings are blackly pessimistic in the main.

1900 H. Lawson Over Sliprails 27 He went and stood before the fire..and looked blackly at a print against the wall before his face.

1940 ‘N. Shute’ Landfall vi.172 Outside the trees massed blackly against the deep blue sky.

1968 N.Y. Mag. 10 June 60/3 The Anti-Death League is Amis at his best—astute, merciless and blackly comic.

2001 J. Waterman Arctic Crossing ii. 195 Late-afternoon clouds stack blackly up into the stratosphere.