ashily

comparative more ashily · superlative most ashily

1. In an ashy way.

   A man was standing on top of the bluff, ashily silhouetted against the night sky.

   1965, John Fowles, The Magus, Boston: Little, Brown, Part 2, Chapter 49, pp. 318-319

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   The window is full of the bare blue gloom, And by the low hearth ashily sinking, Half asleep, is a fairy winking.

   1855, Thomas Caulfield Irwin, “The Fairies’ Child”, in Edward Hayes, editor, The Ballads of Ireland, volume 2, London: A. Fullarton, page 113

   A low exclamation of horror escaped from Nancy Dampier’s lips. She turned ashily pale.

   1913, Marie Belloc Lowndes, chapter 6, in The End of Her Honeymoon, New York: Scribner, page 105