And just as the fish and the reptile glimmeringly adumbrate man, so do these yearnings and desires adumbrate what man in himself calls "love," spelled all out in capitals.
"The Kempton-Wace Letters"
Jack London Anna Strunsky
I merely adumbrate the shifting goal, as it may have presented itself to the minds of the men engaged in the movement, that you may know at the outset, in vision, those far-off heights, which they, or some of them, essayed not only themselves to climb, but to make all mankind also to climb.
"The Arts and Crafts Movement"
Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson
She marked the colour-lilac-as if faintly to adumbrate the imperial purple of Rome.
"The Passionate Elopement"
Compton Mackenzie