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twilight as in: pink clouds in a twilight sky
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It is a beautiful picture taken in twilight.
twilight = the light from the sky in the time of day between daylight and darkness (just after sunset or just before sunrise)
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Twilight, just before sunrise, is my favorite time to be outdoors.
twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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I awakened to a twilight sky but did not know if the sun was setting or rising.
twilight = the light from the sky in the time of day between daylight and darkness
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Due to its orbit, Mercury can only be viewed near the western horizon after sunset or the eastern horizon before sunrise--usually in twilight.
twilight = the light from the sky when the sun is just below the horizon
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I don't know whether it is morning or evening, I lie in the pale cradle of the twilight,
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twilight = the light from the time of day between daylight and darkness
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Twilight was giving way to darkness.
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twilight = the light from the sky between daylight and darkness
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By the time I reached the mountains, it was deep twilight, the trees like shadows of themselves.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
- ...and the sky's orange and ash grey at twilight, (source)
- He waited on the stoop until twilight, pretending to watch the sun melt into the dirty gray Harlem sky. (source)
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The sunset faded to twilight before anything further happened.
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twilight = the time of day immediately following sunset
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Twilight is closing in and I am ill at ease.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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The slice of sky peeking between the curtains was the purple of twilight turning into night.
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twilight = light from the sky between daylight and darkness
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I went out the back door into the twilight.
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twilight = the light from the time of day between daylight and darkness
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It's twilight now.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
- At twilight, once the sun had slid behind the Palen Mountains, the bats came out and swirled through the sky above the shacks of Midland. (source)
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It was so dark it was almost a silhouette; as he watched, the ship's running lights came on, brilliant in the dark purple twilight.
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twilight = light from the sky between daylight and darkness
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We rode a long time in the glow of it, everything silent except for the crickets and the frogs who were revving up for twilight.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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In the twilight Roy and Beatrice crept along, darting from one rusted hulk to the next.
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twilight = light from the sky between daylight and darkness
- The last stains of sunset had melted away, and the twilight died, too, (source)
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The air around him had a greenish, muted hue, as if only several minutes of twilight remained in the day.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
- In summertime, twilights are long and peaceful. (source)
- There were once three brothers who were traveling along a lonely, winding road at twilight— (source)
- The Boardwalk lights against the deepening blue sky gained an ideal, starry beauty and the lights from the belt of honky-tonks and shooting galleries and beer gardens gleamed with a quiet purity in the clear twilight. (source)
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He saw a family of turtles resting on a partially submerged log and watched as a heron broke for flight, skimming just above the water before vanishing into the silver twilight that preceded sunrise.
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twilight = light from the sky between daylight and darkness
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Ralph peered at the child in the twilight.
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twilight = the sky's light between daylight and darkness
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On the fourth day Kit felt chilly and lightheaded, and by twilight she was thankful to sink down on the mat they dragged to the fireside near her cousin.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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The suns were setting on the distant horizon, their slanting rays shining down on the mushrooms nestled within a ring of twilight-blue mountains.
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twilight = light like that from the time of day between daylight and darkness
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I was a proud boy as I walked along in the twilight of the evening.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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The sun was down and a blue twilight filled the park and...
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twilight = the light from the sky between daylight and darkness
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"Hazel?" said Bigwig, sniffing at him in the deep twilight among the tree roots.
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twilight = the light at the time of day between daylight and darkness
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The day, on the other hand, could seem like a perpetual twilight.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
- It's twilight here. (source)
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It was a cold and cheerless waking for them all next morning, with a grey twilight in the wood (for the sun had not yet risen) and everything damp and dirty.
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twilight = time between daylight and darkness
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An incessant buzzing of helicopters filled the twilight.
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twilight = the sky just after sunset or just before sunrise
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I wanted to get out and walk southward toward the park through the soft twilight, but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild, strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair.
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twilight = light from the sky between daylight and darkness
- The sky above turned slowly from azure to the delicate blue-green of a robin's egg, and the unearthly stillness of rural twilight came stealthily down about her. (source)
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It seemed that the blackness in his eyes was changing to something purple something like twilight blue.
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twilight = the color of the sky at the time of day between daylight and darkness
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Too dark? Why, it's only twilight. And goodness knows you've gone over often enough after dark.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
- But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called—called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come. (source)
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He looks up at the gaunt face framed by the window in the twilight.
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twilight = light from the time of day between daylight and darkness
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...and now and again the tiger carried off a man at twilight, within sight of the village gates.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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It was on the dark side of twilight when we got to Bistritz, which is a very interesting old place.
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twilight = the light from the time of day between daylight and darkness
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Two nights after the dawning of Peter's idea he beckoned the girls mysteriously at the twilight hour.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candle light, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars!
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twilight = the light from the sky at the time of day between daylight and darkness
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The earliest riser, coming forth in the dim twilight, would perceive a vaguely-defined figure aloft on the place of shame;
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twilight = light from the time of day between daylight and darkness
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In time, silver twilight is the only remainder of the day, and still we talk of the poetry.
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twilight = light like that from the time of day between daylight and darkness
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There were delicious smells about: chicken, bacon frying crisp as the twilight air.
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twilight = of the time of day between daylight and darkness
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But twilight has arrived and their window of attack on me is closing.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
- Presently the four set out together into the still, frosty twilight. (source)
- She rocked, gazing out at the twilight, and the soothing feeling came reliably into her bones. (source)
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In the dark of twilight, his face was just a pair of eyeglasses reflecting the fading light.
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twilight = light from the sky between daylight and darkness
- In the deepening twilight, the firelight illuminates our faces. (source)
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The brief day drew to a close in a long, slow twilight.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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It was nearly dark, for the full November twilight had fallen around Green Gables, and the only light in the kitchen came from the dancing red flames in the stove.
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twilight = light from the sky between daylight and darkness
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They descended into a thickening twilight.
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twilight = light like that from the time of day between daylight and darkness
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The stillness of the country twilight came down about them as calming as a prayer.
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twilight = light from the sky between daylight and darkness
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They stepped over the threshold into the twilight of a shuttered dormitory.
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twilight = light like that from the time of day between daylight and darkness
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It might be just after twilight and it might be midnight.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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They pushed it open and walked into a shuttered twilight.
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twilight = light like that from the time of day between daylight and darkness
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But, as twilight came, they at last entered the final lap of the long journey.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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Henry Foster loomed up through the twilight of the Embryo Store.
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twilight = light like that from the time of day between daylight and darkness
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When twilight came on and Prissy, scurrying like a black wraith, lit a lamp, Melanie became weaker.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
- Twilight had fallen when the train pulled into Atlanta and a light misting rain obscured the town. (source)
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The dim gloom of drawn blinds and winter twilight closed about her.
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twilight = light from the sky between daylight and darkness
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Oh, lazy days and warm still country twilights!
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twilights = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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It is a warm evening and the twilight seems like a canopy under whose shelter we feel drawn together.
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twilight = light from the sky between daylight and darkness
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In the duty twilight lies a leg torn clean off; the boot is quite whole, I take that all in at a glance.
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twilight = the light from the time of day between daylight and darkness
- We were just coming back from the front line, and at a turning of the road near our billets, marvellous in the morning twilight, stood this cherry tree before us. (source)
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The twilight comes.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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In the cinematographic twilight, Bernard risked a gesture which, in the past, even total darkness would hardly have emboldened him to make.
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twilight = light like that from the time of day between daylight and darkness
- The liftman slammed the gates, touched a button and instantly dropped back into the droning twilight of the well, (source)
- He had emerged from that crimson twilight into the common electric glare with a self-consciousness intensified to the pitch of agony. (source)
- Their wanderings through the crimson twilight had brought them to the neighborhood of Metre 170 on Rack 9. (source)
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Do you remember that afternoon when I sprained my ankle and you carried me home in your arms in the twilight?
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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And as they sang, the lights began slowly to fade–to fade and at the same time to grow warmer, richer, redder, until at last they were dancing in the crimson twilight of an Embryo Store.
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twilight = light like that from the time of day between daylight and darkness
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Every time she thought of that malignant black face peering at her from the shadows of the twilight forest road, she fell to trembling.
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twilight = light from the sky between daylight and darkness
- The train was very late and the long, deeply blue twilight of June was settling over the countryside when Scarlett alighted in Jonesboro. (source)
- And there's the long view down the road to the river, across the cotton fields, and the mist rising from the bottom lands in the twilight. (source)
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Driving home with Archie in the chill twilight, Scarlett saw a clutter of saddle horses, buggies and wagons outside the Girl of the Period Saloon.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
- But she loved him so much that, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews. (source)
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But what Alex was thinking as he peered at her in the twilight was that her face had changed so completely he wondered how he had ever recognized her.
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twilight = light from the sky between daylight and darkness
- In the dull twilight of the winter afternoon she came to the end of the long road which had begun the night Atlanta fell. (source)
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It was with real hate in her eyes that she stormed into her bedroom at twilight and told Rhett that she was going to have a baby.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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It sleeted the next day, but as the wintry twilight drew on the icy particles stopped falling and a cold wind blew.
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twilight = time of day between daylight and darkness
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And the convicts had marched out too, to die in the twilight of the Confederacy, to freeze in the snow and sleet of that last campaign in Tennessee.
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twilight = a time of decline following successes
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As he was several cuts above the Slatterys in education, it was only natural that he should not want to marry Emmie, no matter how often he might walk with her in the twilight.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
- Moreover, now that she was away from Tara, she missed it dreadfully, missed the red fields and the springing green cotton and the sweet twilight silences. (source)
- When he rode home in the twilight almost too drunk to stay in the saddle, scowling at those who spoke to him, the ladies said "Poor thing!" and redoubled their efforts to be kind and gentle. (source)
- Why, only last week, when they were riding home at twilight from Fairhill, he had said: "Scarlett, I have something so important to tell you that I hardly know how to say it." (source)
- He belonged to another woman and he had gone to the war, but his ghost still haunted the roads in the twilight, still smiled at her from drowsy gray eyes in the shadows of the porch. (source)
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But when he had climbed down and untied his horse from the back of the buggy and stood in the twilight road, grinning tantalizingly at her, she could not smother her own grin as she drove off.
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twilight = lit by light from the time of day between daylight and darkness
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With the disappearance of the sun, a bitter chill had fallen on the twilight world and a cold wind blew through the dark woods, making the bare boughs crack and the dead leaves rustle.
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twilight = time of day between daylight and darkness
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Later, in the long, hot summer twilight, the ambulances came rumbling down the road from the battle field and commissary wagons, covered with muddy canvas.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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He had been silent since supper and had sat in the twilight listening to the war talk with a down-twisted mouth, holding the sleeping child against his shoulder.
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twilight = light from the sky between daylight and darkness
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The dusty red road was empty and lifeless, and the only sounds in the village were a few whoops and drunken laughs that floated on the still twilight air from a saloon far down the street.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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His audience heard him with varying emotions, for all who sat there rocking quietly in the fading twilight, watching the first fireflies of the season moving magically through the dusk, had weighty matters on their minds.
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twilight = light from the sky between daylight and darkness
- She could see the white house gleaming welcome to her through the reddening autumn leaves, feel the quiet hush of the country twilight coming down over her like a benediction, feel the dews falling on the acres of green bushes starred with fleecy white, see the raw color of the red earth and the dismal dark beauty of the pines on the rolling hills. (source)
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Sometimes, he thought it was worth it to have her smiling when she opened the front door in the cold twilights, kissing him on the ear or the nose or some other inappropriate place, to feel her head snuggling drowsily on his shoulder at night under warm quilts.
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twilights = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.
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twilight = light from the sky between daylight and darkness
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At the gates in the twilight he would kill Mowgli, the Frog!
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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twilight as in: the twilight of her career
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He ruled in the twilight of the empire.
twilight = a condition of decline following successes
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- She was more considerate in the twilight of her career.
- Only then shall you know that the erect and the fallen are but one man standing in twilight between the night of his pigmy-self and the day of his god self, (source)
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I seem to be in a strange, continual twilight.
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twilight = a period of low energy following a more energetic time
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He'd served the Army for nineteen years; he'd fought in two wars; he'd been passed over for promotion to lieutenant colonel, and—at a time when all the good "field grade" officers were in Washington or Vietnam—he'd ended up as a ROTC professor for his twilight tour of duty.
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twilight = a period of decline
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This was a group of white-shirted, khaki-trousered, suspendered old men who had spent their lives doing nothing and passed their twilight days doing same on pine benches under the live oaks on the square.
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twilight = elderly years
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I have no time for worry in this twilight of my life.
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twilight = time of decline towards the end
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It was a twilight engagement.
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twilight = elderly years
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The old king, however, who knew nothing of his sons' animosity, was very happy in the twilight of his reign and spent his days quietly walking and contemplating in the royal gardens.
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twilight = later and less energetic years
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First I had to prove myself in places where I was not part of the landscape, but after just a little over six months in that crowded, frenetic newsroom in New York, and a couple more in the dark, miserable twilight of Haiti, I was as close to home as I would perhaps ever be.
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twilight = a condition of decline
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The town was caught in the lingering twilight of a prior time, a way of life less typical of the Depression than of the Belle Epoque.
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twilight = time of decline following prior growth
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But what I desire to know is this: When the twilight of the Nephilim comes, will the Courts stand with or against me?
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twilight = decline or fall
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...the twilight of his own habitual stupor.
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twilight = a condition of decline
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Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season; suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men, and drowsing asleep at dawn with the beads and chiffon of an evening dress tangled among dying orchids on the floor beside her bed.
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twilight = a condition of decline following successes
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She never refused the favor, just as she never refused the countless men who sought her out, even in the twilight of her maturity, without giving her money or love and only occasionally pleasure.
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twilight = elderly years
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...a recurring story as old as time: the chapter which concerned her began two hundred years ago and was played out in a proud society the bloodiest war and harshest peace in modern history could not destroy, returning, to be played out again on private ground in the twilight of a civilization no wars and no peace could save.
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twilight = a condition of decline following successes
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Twilight is refracted and reflected
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- Moniba and I had been reading the Twilight books and longed to be vampires.† (source)
- It reminded me of the floating door in the opening credits of the original Twilight Zone.† (source)
- Salammbo, Strange Fugitive, Twilight of the Idols, A Farewell to Arms.† (source)
- The long twilight had faded.† (source)
- In the darkening red twilight they would point out to each other the things that they saw: a dog chasing a porcupine, a tiny pink seashell, the husk of a beetle, a column of fire ants marching across the sand.† (source)
- He was upset that my mother did not want to make time-shares a regular part of their twilight years.† (source)
- But all she could see was a misty sea of trees in the twilight.† (source)
- When I'd stumbled into our makeshift camp in the woods at twilight, Susie had almost shot me.† (source)
- I was a little shaken as we walked back home in the twilight.† (source)
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- It was late into the long twilight before the road crossed the creek.† (source)
- Laila likes Murree's cool, foggy mornings and its dazzling twilights, the dark brilliance of the sky at night; the green of the pines and the soft brown of the squirrels darting up and down the sturdy tree trunks; the sudden downpours that send shoppers in the Mall scrambling for awning cover.† (source)
- The growing darkness of twilight was a perfect fit for how grim things felt to Thomas.† (source)
- Sophie felt as if the entire night had become some kind of twilight zone where nothing was as she expected.† (source)
- The grass was still wet and looked almost black in the twilight.† (source)
- He stood up, a midnight shadow in the twilight.† (source)
- I can drive in twilight, and save the sunny part of the day for charging.† (source)
- Faint twilight angles through smoke and shutter slats in hazy red stripes.† (source)
- I looked down at the paper plates in my hands, bluing in the twilight.† (source)
- Their first month living together, Mae had broken her jaw one twilight, after fainting, flu-ridden and underfed, during finals.† (source)
- He sat watching the twilight fade beyond the kitchen windows.† (source)
- I was getting antsy to leave—I wanted out of this twilight zone!† (source)
- Twilight deepened.† (source)
- Well, it was a little bit Twilight Zone" 'Had Peter ever said anything like that to you before?† (source)
- But inside it's perpetual twilight.† (source)
- The bright moon is already on the rise, filling the arena with that strange twilight.† (source)
- Through a buggy twilight, I walked to the pay phone, which was drilled into the wall between Rooms 44 and 45.† (source)
- Stealing a glance, I could see the California twilight being overtaken by darkness.† (source)
- The aircar rocketed them at speeds in excess of R17 through the steel tunnels that led out on to the appalling surface of the planet which was now in the grip of yet another drear morning twilight.† (source)
- This was the Twilight Zone.† (source)
- An old lady stood there smiling, her dentures glowing white in the perpetual green twilight of the hallway.† (source)
- Smoky desert twilight, shades drawn.† (source)
- It's just that when you're standing beside an open window at twilight, you can say more to each other than in bright sunshine.† (source)
- A History-shaped Hole in the Universe through which, at twilight, dense clouds of silent bats billowed like factory smoke and drifted into the night.† (source)
- He felt invisible in the soft twilight.† (source)
- So for the next eight hours, it would be twilight on the Fowl estate.† (source)
- I could recall walking along the narrow dirt road that ran past the Weylin house and seeing the house, shadowy in twilight, boxy and familiar, yellow light showing from some of the windows—Weylin was surprisingly extravagant with his candles and oil.† (source)
- Carvahall's lights shimmered nearby in the twilight; the houses cast long shadows.† (source)
- "Twilight, again," he murmured.† (source)
- It's going down...It took a minute to locate it in the deepening twilight, and the surge of the ocean was doing its best to drive me into the pier.† (source)
- After dinner and before lights-out every night, Simon and I had been bringing our cellos outside to hold impromptu concerts in the long twilight.† (source)
- Lil whistled kind of low, like something out of The Twilight Zone.† (source)
- Snakes And Thorns "None of that matters now," said Twilight.† (source)
- Now Gogol looks onto a field, some spindly trees against a cobalt twilight sky.† (source)
- "All kinds...." he says, his voice lingering in the twilight.† (source)
- Unexpected fires at twilight.† (source)
- They seem to be people, especially in the twilight as evening comes and the edges of hallucinations start.† (source)
- Heads nodded in the roseate twilight.† (source)
- I bolted upright, suddenly feeling like I'd been sucked into a Twilight Zone episode.† (source)
- In the waning moments of twilight, Mack could make out the rocky shore of the lake, not overgrown as he remembered, but beautifully kept and picture perfect.† (source)
- Or else they would feel drawn to Night, to Twilight, to old ruins and the supernatural.† (source)
- Then the black queen put on her red scarf and walked off into the October twilight.† (source)
- There in the bright spring twilight stood a woman.† (source)
- It's getting close to twilight, the control tower of the Enterprise looms hard and black against a deep gray sky that's getting dark and gloomy so fast that it seems darker, now, than it will at midnight.† (source)
- Twilight came on.† (source)
- Twilight came on and Amy said she had to go; that she wouldn't be caught dead in daylight on a busy river with a runaway.† (source)
- Thanksgiving break had only been a long weekend, but it felt a lot longer, considering that Twilight Zone of a Thanksgiving dinner, the vases flying between Macon and Lena, and our journey to the center of the earth, all without leaving the Gatlin city limits.† (source)
- He went with his father to a Titans baseball game, in the twilight semipro league.† (source)
- Boo and Stewart had invited us over for a dinner to celebrate my first night home, so at twilight my parents and I walked across the damp grass and over the small hill separating our yards to their backyard.† (source)
- Out there, somewhere, in the deathly silence of the twilight, there would almost certainly be three more, looking for the one surviving American from that original four-man platoon that had inflicted such damage on their troops.† (source)
- Darkness fell, leaving a false twilight of old snow.† (source)
- I thought, Oh my God—I'm living in the twilight zone!† (source)
- Later, in the deepest part of a stormy twilight when even the things directly in front of you look unreal, the second-shift man drives by, headed in the opposite direction, and entombs it.† (source)
- What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars ...† (source)
- In the rapidly falling twilight, his hair looked coppery gold.† (source)
- In that instant, I could almost hear the discordant melody that played on TV with The Twilight Zone.† (source)
- I glanced back at Zu out of the corner of my eye, but the twilight had lulled her to sleep.† (source)
- It was still relatively light out, summer prolonging the balmy twilight warmth.† (source)
- Out on the desert, she knew, it already was red nightfall, but here in the cavern hall was perpetual twilight, a gray vastness thronged with people come to see her risk her life.† (source)
- Later Buddy told me the woman was on a drug that would make her forget she'd had any pain and that when she swore and groaned she really didn't know what she was doing because she was in a kind of twilight sleep.† (source)
- Then she raised her arms and lifted her head to the twilight sky.† (source)
- I followed Narciso mechanically, weak and disillusioned I tramped after him into the dark twilight of the storm.† (source)
- They walked around stark naked in the eternal twilight of the basement, defying the humidity and drafts.† (source)
- 'Why — ' Jim examined his friend, curiously, twilight in his face 'no one can tell you.† (source)
- Years later, when he tried to remember what the maiden idealized by the alchemy of poetry really was like, he could not distinguish her from the heartrending twilights of those times.† (source)
- They should meet by twilight near the Fire Swamp.† (source)
- After being so exposed to the bright Angeles sun, the palace halls looked like twilight as I waited for my eyes to adjust.† (source)
- Above them, the sky is purple with twilight.† (source)
- He grins, and his teeth are white in the twilight.† (source)
- As I watched him disappear in the twilight shadows, I whispered these words: "Good-bye, old fellow."† (source)
- It was twilight, the sun was gone, soon the street lamps would be turned on.† (source)
- In a twilight corner of her consciousness, one tiny fragment and another tiny fragment call out wordlessly to each other, their spreading ripples intermingling.† (source)
- It was as if she had entered some twilight zone of her own, some state halfway between sleep and waking, where she would not have to consider too fully the consequences of her decisions, or the fate of the baby sleeping in her dresser drawer, or her own.† (source)
- Other glass cases contain artifacts of Kroc's life, mementos of his long years of struggle and his twilight as a billionaire.† (source)
- In South Africa, a man who tried to fulfill his duty to his people was inevitably ripped from his family and his home and was forced to live a life apart, a twilight existence of secrecy and rebellion.† (source)
- He said, "Only a mole that sneaks through the twilight."† (source)
- The enormous room was hidden away from the circadian lights, in a state of perpetual twilight.† (source)
- It was a quiet twilight evening, much like tonight.† (source)
- At twilight, Sister Mary Joseph Praise and Thomas Stone slipped the shrouded bodies over the rail, with no help from the superstitious crew who wouldn't even look their way.† (source)
- The chief ceremony of their day is performed at twilight.† (source)
- Another choice: Try to find peace in the twilight zone, or climb into the monster's rocket and lift off.† (source)
- Those who had spawned Brewster Place, countless twilights ago, now mandated that it was to be condemned.† (source)
- She was just a shape in the twilight.† (source)
- The sun has set, the sky settling into that hazy blue of twilight.† (source)
- We're going to be well out of the woods before twilight.† (source)
- The machine comes to life in the grey twilight, blushing its way through a spectrum of soft, romantic colours.† (source)
- After lingering for a long time, she slipped out of the barn into the twilight.† (source)
- Right before Adam carried his gear through the gate into DEVGRU, Kelley felt compelled to ask the guard to snap a photo of the family together, there in the twilight—something they'd never done before.† (source)
- The sun went down and it began to be twilight.† (source)
- It was twilight in the garden, the time between day and evening.† (source)
- All that twilight litter.† (source)
- We have lost even this twilight.† (source)
- They ate, thanked Roxy and her man Zack in the simple uneffusive mountain fashion, and started away in the twilight of dawn.† (source)
- Uncle Willie sat in the twilight on the front porch mumbling or maybe singing, and smoking a ready-made.† (source)
- Not in the twilight.† (source)
- David nodded, gazed up at the fading twilight, and gestured impatiently for the Agent to go.† (source)
- The fear flowed everywhere, into Dunbar's squadron, where Dunbar poked his head inquiringly through the entrance of the medical tent there one twilight and spoke respectfully to the blurred outline of Dr. Stubbs, who was sitting in the dense shadows inside before a bottle of whiskey and a bell jar filled with purified drinking water.† (source)
- Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade!† (source)
- After dark, fortified with strong green tea and three plates of dhal chana, a curry of yellow lentils, from a roadside stand, Mortenson lay back in his nest on top of the truck and watched individual stars pinprick the fabric of twilight.† (source)
- Rosie is at the far end of the menagerie, and as my eyes adjust to the twilight I see someone standing beside her.† (source)
- In the dim twilight, the young men could almost imagine the great cathedrals that may have once stood on the island—but that age was long past, and nature had since reclaimed it for herself.† (source)
- THEY CROSSED THROUGH GREY TWILIGHT and blowing snow to a house by the shore, where sailors from the Boston were waiting out of the bitter wind.† (source)
- Twilight settled over Zuckerman's barn, and a feeling of peace.† (source)
- I feel like I've found myself in the middle of a Twilight Zone episode where everything around me has frozen and I'm the only one who can move.† (source)
- As twilight deepens, their mothers call them in.† (source)
- When I spoke thus to Jakob Merrill, it was in the sure knowledge that he would be dead by twilight.† (source)
- Twilight is sliding fast into full dark around us.† (source)
- First stop: the Twilight Inn.† (source)
- No, The Twilight Zone.† (source)
- In this growing twilight, a child could hide and never be found.† (source)
- A twilight whisper in the leaves before The great araba falls?† (source)
- I did not want to lose that twilight sleep, with its odors and sounds and whispered flow of music.† (source)
- If I could have managed better in that twilight zone, I might not have.† (source)
- The sun is below the horizon now and twilight is on us.† (source)
- (Later the same night) So anyway, I went outside for a while and I just walked around the neighborhood, enjoying the soft twilight (the sun had just set and the western horizon was glowing all rosy and pink, and the eastern sky looked like a smooth piece of smoky blue velveteen rolling out)† (source)
- It's the twilight, he thought; I hate the twilight.† (source)
- The wine or Trina's clever fingers mellowed Eve's mood toward some twilight world of relaxation.† (source)
- Men and women were coming home from work in the early twilight.† (source)
- Esther's sitting by the cistern watching Sammy and Magda play in the twilight.† (source)
- He directed Wulfgar's gaze to the west, where the sky had already begun to take on the pink shades of twilight.† (source)
- Many Americans still harbor a twilight yearning for the sound of English speech.† (source)
- I stand with Clay in a kind of twilight.† (source)
- Almost twilight.† (source)
- The late-summer twilight had finally arrived.† (source)
- The tree will be lighted every day from twilight to midnight until Jan. 2.† (source)
- Listen for me at twilight.† (source)
- "Look," Betonie said, pointing east to Mount Taylor towering dark blue with the last twilight.† (source)
- When the sun is below the horizon, but it's still light enough to see, it's called 'civil twilight.'† (source)
- Merle had said it was like the "Twilight Zone" episode where the man opens the drapes of his new home, which the people of the planet where he crashed have built for him, only to see people lined up and looking in.† (source)
- We stand outside the church in twilight.† (source)
- The servants stalking mosquitoes at twilight, crafty, pouncing on the window screens.† (source)
- So Lucille danced, all alone in the still twilight.† (source)
- Do you know, at the top of the world the twilight is six months long?† (source)
- Walking to the diner in the twilight, they passed people sitting out on their porches, and everyone—friend or stranger—said "Evening," or "Nice night."† (source)
- And he turned without another word and walked quickly away into the twilight.† (source)
- That Christmas Eve at about 5 P.M., we left Jack's house in a smoky, wet twilight.† (source)
- I feel like I was reborn into a never-ending episode of The Twilight Zone.† (source)
- Often she returned to the house to find Gabriel waiting, and they would walk a mile or two through the perfumed twilight of the valley.† (source)
- She's the rose of No Man's Land," and we sang, "Hello, central, give me Heaven, 'cause my Daddy's there," and we sang, "Just a baby's prayer at twilight, when lights are low.† (source)
- But I see what it is, you are not from these parts, you don't know what our twilights can do.† (source)
- Perhaps she'd be hounded someday as far as joining Tristero itself, if it existed, in its twilight, its aloofness, its waiting.† (source)
- When I trained my glasses on the gully (the telescope was not as good as ordinary binoculars for night viewing, in the twilight conditions which then prevailed) she had already emerged and was standing facing the point where the strangers were.† (source)
- Usually Jim dined with them, and often Keetah, and the times Mark liked the best were the long summer twilights when the elders dropped in to speak of the old culture.† (source)
- In the twilight, JAMES, AUNT EV, and KELLER move off slowly, formally, in separate directions; KATE with HELEN in her arms remains, motionless, in an image which overlaps into the next scene and fades only when it is well under way.† (source)
- But then it was twilight, and she might not have noticed.† (source)
- In the neon glare at twilight hundreds of sports and idlers jammed the streets.† (source)
- The sun had set, the glow of twilight was touched with darkness, before he came out.† (source)
- Her best friend Alice Cooksey, the librarian, claimed to have seen a Sputnik one evening at twilight.† (source)
- Twilight, in the Northern Territory, is short.† (source)
- With the coming of twilight Pio was awake.† (source)
- I used to watch 'Twilight Zone.'† (source)
- They sat in twilight at a ghost-white table.† (source)
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The Magi stood in shadow (the byre seemed in twilight);
They spoke in whispers, groping for words.† (source)
- Now the trumpet summons us again — not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need — not as a call to battle, though embattled we are — but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" — a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.† (source)
- Children greeted each other dreamily at twilight.† (source)
- In the twilight of morphling, Peeta whispers the word and I go searching for him.† (source)
- The lights of the city were blinking on at twilight.† (source)
- They're stuck in a kind of twilight life.† (source)
- You only prolonged my long, painful passing, my dark twilight sleep.† (source)
- In the twilight, her wild volutions of hair look more radiant than ever: a struck match.† (source)
- It's twilight," Edward murmured, looking at the western horizon, obscured as it was with clouds.† (source)
- "Do you think..." began Sol but at the moment Rachel approached them in the autumn twilight.† (source)
- Let's pretend it's a Twilight movie and that we're vampires in the forest," I said to Moniba.† (source)
- Almondine stood waiting for him in the midday twilight of pinholes and cracks.† (source)
- Twilight was falling and the streets below were bathed in a reddish purple glow.† (source)
- Because of the broken windows, the vast room was in semi-twilight.† (source)
- She glanced back and hesitated for a moment, then waved and ran off into the early evening twilight.† (source)
- Twilight fell upon the Glade and Alby's screams continued to haunt the air.† (source)
- Even the gathering twilight couldn't drain them of their brightness.† (source)
- He studied the deepening twilight in that half-bored, half-distracted way he had.† (source)
- I reach for Prim in the twilight, clamp my hand on her leg, and pull myself over to her.† (source)
- He sat in the crypt, aching to be out in the summer's twilight, under the ghost moon.† (source)
- By the time I reached the main road, coming down off the mountain, twilight had begun to spread.† (source)
- She never began begging before twilight came on, probably for fear of being recognized.† (source)
- He stood at a rise in the road and tried to take his bearings in the twilight.† (source)
- The ball flew high above the cheering crowd into the twilight sky, over the billboarded fence.† (source)
- I remember how peaceful the twilight was.† (source)
- Other times the mood was darker and angst was heavy in the twilight air.† (source)
- What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars ...† (source)
- It was twilight in a spooky churchyard, and the hairs on the back of her neck were prickling.† (source)
- It was twilight, and the air was alive with drifting fireflies.† (source)
- Near twilight the clouds fractured and the rain let up.† (source)
- Beneath the Buick, I slipped into a warm and dreamy twilight.† (source)
- There was the feel of permanent twilight.† (source)
- "Sometimes I think it's easier to be a Twilight vampire than a girl in Swat," I sighed.† (source)
- Not cloudy, not twilight, not the early minutes of dawn.† (source)
- It was very early, and morning twilight had only just broken.† (source)
- I darted a look at the thin strip of sky visible overhead and saw it was purpling into twilight.† (source)
- Though it had been twilight on the street, here in the alley it was as dark as nightfall.† (source)
- The sudden twilight cast his face in shadow under the cowl of the robe.† (source)
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He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies.
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twilight = (figurative) the end-of-the-day before falling asleep
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