All 7 Uses of
twilight
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- The sun had crept round the tree as a last effort before death, and then began to sink, the shearers' lower parts becoming steeped in embrowning twilight, whilst their heads and shoulders were still enjoying day, touched with a yellow of self-sustained brilliancy that seemed inherent rather than acquired.†
Chpt 22-24
- The slow twilight expanded and enveloped them completely before the signs of moving were shown.†
Chpt 22-24 *
- By reason of the density of the interwoven foliage overhead, it was gloomy there at cloudless noontide, twilight in the evening, dark as midnight at dusk, and black as the ninth plague of Egypt at midnight.†
Chpt 22-24
- CHAPTER XXIX PARTICULARS OF A TWILIGHT WALK We now see the element of folly distinctly mingling with the many varying particulars which made up the character of Bathsheba Everdene.†
Chpt 28-30
- He turned his face away, and withdrew, and his form was soon covered over by the twilight as his footsteps mixed in with the low hiss of the leafy trees.†
Chpt 31-33
- It had grown twilight before she was aware, but Boldwood assured her that there was no cause for uneasiness, as the moon would be up in half-an-hour.†
Chpt 49-51
- He looked out of the window, and regarded the dim outline of the trees upon the sky, and the twilight deepening to darkness.†
Chpt 52-54
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