Careful Words

shady (adj.)

The nodding horror of whose shady brows

Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.

John Milton (1608-1674): Comus. Line 38.

Where'er she lie,

Locked up from mortal eye,

In shady leaves of destiny.

Richard Crashaw (Circa 1616-1650): Wishes to his Supposed Mistress.

Her angels face,

As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright,

And made a sunshine in the shady place.

Edmund Spenser (1553-1599): Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto iii. St. 4.

Under the shady roof

Of branching elm star-proof.

John Milton (1608-1674): Arcades. Line 88.

O give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall!

Charles Morris (1739-1832): Town and Country.