All 7 Uses of
twilight
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- As twilight drew on, the ferryboat went back to her accustomed business and the skiffs disappeared.†
Chpt 14
- As the twilight drew on, they found themselves hanging about the neighborhood of the little isolated jail, perhaps with an undefined hope that something would happen that might clear away their difficulties.†
Chpt 23
- Shortly afterward they slipped out of the house in the deepening twilight, and moved toward the river with their precious box.†
Chpt 26
- CHAPTER XXXII TUESDAY afternoon came, and waned to the twilight.†
Chpt 32 *
- When the cave door was unlocked, a sorrowful sight presented itself in the dim twilight of the place.†
Chpt 33
- It is falling now; it will still be falling when all these things shall have sunk down the afternoon of history, and the twilight of tradition, and been swallowed up in the thick night of oblivion.†
Chpt 33
- Tom skimmed up the shore through the long twilight, chatting cheerily with Huck, and landed shortly after dark.†
Chpt 33
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