All 6 Uses of
twilight
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- But I kept aloof from their more foolhardy schemes for a while, and on pain of being called a girl, I spent most of the remaining twilights that summer sitting with Miss Maudie Atkinson on her front porch.
p. 55..9 (definition 1)twilights = the time of day between daylight and darkness
- In summertime, twilights are long and peaceful.
p. 57..5 (definition 1) *
- He would return his hat to his head, swing me to his shoulders in her very presence, and we would go home in the twilight.
p. 134..2 (definition 1)
- This was a group of white-shirted, khaki-trousered, suspendered old men who had spent their lives doing nothing and passed their twilight days doing same on pine benches under the live oaks on the square.
p. 217..9 (definition 2) *twilight = elderly years
- There were delicious smells about: chicken, bacon frying crisp as the twilight air.
p. 229..3 (definition 1)twilight = of the time of day between daylight and darkness
Uses with a very rare meaning:
- He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies.
p. 192..5 (definition 3) *twilight = (figurative) the end-of-the-day before falling asleep
Definitions:
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(1) (twilight as in: pink clouds in a twilight sky) the time of day between daylight and darkness (just after sunset or just before sunrise); or the light from the sky at that time
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(2) (twilight as in: the twilight of her career) a condition of decline following successes
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(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, twilight can refer to