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Definition of Shadowlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shadowlike
Literary usage of Shadowlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Complete Works of Rev. Thomas Smyth, D. D. by Thomas Smyth (1912)
"... A something deep, And shadowlike, yet shadowless Like day, 'neath some still
fountain seen, With a white moon and cloudy sheen, Unreal, yet like all we ..."
2. Villette by Charlotte Brontë (1853)
"... or kind in him (and Lucy felt the full amount) should have kept her quite
tame, or absolutely inoffensive and shadowlike. He looked, but he desisted. ..."
3. The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Julian Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop (1883)
"I SERVE you not, if you I follow, shadowlike, o'er hill and hollow ; And bend my
fancy to your leading, All too nimble for my treading. ..."
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