All 10 Uses of
twilight
in
Bleak House
- My Lady Dedlock (who is childless), looking out in the early twilight from her boudoir at a keeper's lodge and seeing the light of a fire upon the latticed panes, and smoke rising from the chimney, and a child, chased by a woman, running out into the rain to meet the shining figure of a wrapped-up man coming through the gate, has been put quite out of temper.†
Chpt 1-3
- It is now twilight.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- It is quite a story for twilight.†
Chpt 10-12
- Twilight comes on; gas begins to start up in the shops; the lamplighter, with his ladder, runs along the margin of the pavement.†
Chpt 16-18
- We had often noticed the dark beauty of this lodge standing in a deep twilight of trees, and how the ivy clustered over it, and how there was a steep hollow near, where we had once seen the keeper's dog dive down into the fern as if it were water.†
Chpt 16-18
- Mr. Tulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open window, enjoys his wine.†
Chpt 22-24
- More impenetrable than ever, he sits, and drinks, and mellows as it were in secrecy, pondering at that twilight hour on all the mysteries he knows, associated with darkening woods in the country, and vast blank shut-up houses in town, and perhaps sparing a thought or two for himself, and his family history, and his money, and his will—all a mystery to every one—and that one bachelor friend of his, a man of the same mould and a lawyer too, who lived the same kind of life until he was…†
Chpt 22-24
- The blazing fires of faggot and coal—Dedlock timber and antediluvian forest—that blaze upon the broad wide hearths and wink in the twilight on the frowning woods, sullen to see how trees are sacrificed, do not exclude the enemy.†
Chpt 28-30
- My Lady, do you object to the twilight?†
Chpt 40-42
- He melted out of his turret-room this morning, just as now, in the late twilight, he melts into his own square.†
Chpt 40-42
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