All 4 Uses of
twilight
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- If your business necessitated your seeing "the House," you were put into a species of Condemned Hold at the back, where you meditated on a misspent life, until the House came with its hands in its pockets, and you could hardly blink at it in the dismal twilight.†
Chpt 2.1
- When the tea-table was done with, they all moved to one of the windows, and looked out into the heavy twilight.†
Chpt 2.6
- They travelled in the night, halting an hour or two after daybreak, and lying by until the twilight fell.†
Chpt 3.1 *
- Through the dismal prison twilight, his new charge accompanied him by corridor and staircase, many doors clanging and locking behind them, until they came into a large, low, vaulted chamber, crowded with prisoners of both sexes.†
Chpt 3.1
Definition:
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(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