and he could only follow the shadowy pantomime of their…

“That done, I sank into an uneasy sleep wherein I dreamed of an assembly line of pale, bloodless girls walking down an endless dark…

— Jeff Rice

The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me...

— Heinrich Heine

In the shadowy light that twisted and distorted its features I was struck by the notion that this figure looked more like an angry…

— Avi

“There was always that shadowy twin, thin when I was fat, fat when I was thin, myself in silvery negative, with dark teeth and…

— Mona Awad

“The slick, chin-high tops of cars made an undulating surface that stretched away into the darkness in all directions; beneath it stood endless shadowy…

— Richard Yates

We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.

— Christopher Pearse Cranch

Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms; night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden gravel still,…

— William Butler Yeats

“Even the brightest of dreams-come-true had shadowy recesses.”

— James Luceno

I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything…

— Anonymous

I'm genuine! I've not got some dark, shadowy corporation behind me pulling the strings.

— Limmy

The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.

— Laozi

“If you were a shadowy, anonymous figure, it made sense to pretend everything had gone according to some diabolical plan. Never mind if it…

— Courtney Milan

“Shadowy figures watched them from doorways, as shadowy figures are wont to fucking do.”

— Jesse Bullington

“the only life is a shadowy turbulence at the periphery of my vision, a fox perhaps,”

— Gilly Macmillan

“Yet I thought I saw her stand, A shadow there at my feet, High over the shadowy land.”

— Alfred Lord Tennyson