All 6 Uses of
twilight
in
The Time Machine
- Presently, as I went on, still gaining velocity, the palpitation of night and day merged into one continuous greyness; the sky took on a wonderful deepness of blue, a splendid luminous color like that of early twilight; the jerking sun became a streak of fire, a brilliant arch, in space; the moon a fainter fluctuating band; and I could see nothing of the stars, save now and then a brighter circle flickering in the blue.†
Chpt 3
- 'So we went on in the quiet, and the twilight deepened into night.†
Chpt 7 *
- At last a steady twilight brooded over the earth, a twilight only broken now and then when a comet glared across the darkling sky.†
Chpt 11
- At last a steady twilight brooded over the earth, a twilight only broken now and then when a comet glared across the darkling sky.†
Chpt 11
- It was the same rich green that one sees on forest moss or on the lichen in caves: plants which like these grow in a perpetual twilight.†
Chpt 11
- But a terrible dread of lying helpless in that remote and awful twilight sustained me while I clambered upon the saddle.†
Chpt 11
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