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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)
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The office disappeared, and now Snape and Dumbledore were strolling together in the deserted castle grounds by twilight.
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twilight = the light at the time of day between daylight and darkness
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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.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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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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As twilight settled in, the rawboned Texan moved among the boys of what was now his squad, giving orders for everyone to dig in and align themselves with a good field of fire.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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She woke twisted in her sheets, her hair a mass of tangles and the light outside the window dimmed to a twilight darkness.
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twilight = the light from the time of day between daylight and darkness
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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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The trees changed to beech and oak, and there was a comfortable feeling in the twilight.
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twilight = the time of day 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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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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...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
- Two nights after the dawning of Peter's idea he beckoned the girls mysteriously at the twilight hour. (source)
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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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Presently the four set out together into the still, frosty twilight.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
- There were once three brothers who were traveling along a lonely, winding road at twilight— (source)
- The brief day drew to a close in a long, slow twilight. (source)
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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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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 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
- They pushed it open and walked into a shuttered twilight. (source)
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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
- When twilight came on and Prissy, scurrying like a black wraith, lit a lamp, Melanie became weaker. (source)
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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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Twilight had fallen when the train pulled into Atlanta and a light misting rain obscured the town.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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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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Yet the light only showed them endless lines of straight grey trunks like the pillars of some huge twilight hall.
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twilight = light like that from the time of day 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
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They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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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.
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twilight = the light from the time of day between daylight and darkness
- In the Wide World the Wood-elves lingered in the twilight of our Sun and Moon but loved best the stars; and they wandered in the great forests that grew tall in lands that are now lost. (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)
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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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Their wanderings through the crimson twilight had brought them to the neighborhood of Metre 170 on Rack 9.
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twilight = light like that from the time of day between daylight and darkness
- 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. (source)
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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
- At the gates in the twilight he would kill Mowgli, the Frog! (source)
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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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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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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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It was a twilight engagement.
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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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- We'd lived on the same street when we were little and been friends since we were toddlers and we shared everything, Justin Bieber songs and Twilight movies, the best face-lightening creams.† (source)
- It reminded me of the floating door in the opening credits of the original Twilight Zone.† (source)
- The ice was white at noon, light green in the twilight; the smaller pieces made a tinkling sound, like bells.† (source)
- In the twilight they came upon a snapping turtle the size of a dinner plate marching toward the water.† (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)
- Gradually, the monotone of twilight gave way to a burst of color as the sun broke the horizon ahead of me.† (source)
- I was a little shaken as we walked back home in the twilight.† (source)
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- 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)
- Sophie felt as if the entire night had become some kind of twilight zone where nothing was as she expected.† (source)
- Not cloudy, not twilight, not the early minutes of dawn.† (source)
- The grass was still wet and looked almost black in the twilight.† (source)
- It was late into the long twilight before the road crossed the creek.† (source)
- A boy comes toward them out of the smoky twilight, no older than Marie-Laure, streaked with ash, pushing a wheeled dining cart through the gravel.† (source)
- In the twilight of the graveyard there was a silent implosion, a flutter of velvet darkness, and Silas was gone.† (source)
- I can drive in twilight, and save the sunny part of the day for charging.† (source)
- In the fall he burned brush piles and raked leaves for Virginia Gatewood, a stick figure at twilight in cloth gloves and a threadbare mackinaw coat ragged at the elbows.† (source)
- Their first month living together, Mae had broken her jaw one twilight, after fainting, flu-ridden and underfed, during finals.† (source)
- I looked down at the paper plates in my hands, bluing in the twilight.† (source)
- I was getting antsy to leave—I wanted out of this twilight zone!† (source)
- Well, it was a little bit Twilight Zone" 'Had Peter ever said anything like that to you before?† (source)
- It was twilight, and the air was alive with drifting fireflies.† (source)
- Then he adjusts the light in the room to mimic twilight and presses a button just inside the fabric on my wrist.† (source)
- Stealing a glance, I could see the California twilight being overtaken by darkness.† (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)
- Through a buggy twilight, I walked to the pay phone, which was drilled into the wall between Rooms 44 and 45.† (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)
- But inside it's perpetual twilight.† (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)
- So for the next eight hours, it would be twilight on the Fowl estate.† (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)
- The twilights out there were florid and melodramatic, great sweeps of orange and crimson and Lawrence-in-the-desert vermilion, then night dropping dark and hard like a slammed door.† (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)
- 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)
- A soft beam of light fell through the aperture, illuminating the crater's center, though it left the rest of the cavernous expanse in hushed twilight.† (source)
- Henry Dobbins sitting in the twilight, sewing on his new buck-sergeant stripes, quietly singing, "A tisket, a tasket, a green and yellow basket."† (source)
- As my eyes become accustomed to the twilight, I see that his face is moist, his plump cheeks wet, his forehead soaked.† (source)
- Twilight was beginning to fall when the mountains drew back from the road and the sea suddenly appeared beyond green hills, a sea as wide as another sky.† (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- "Look!" cried Brawne Lamia, pointing to the balcony doorway where the fading twilight had been replaced with pulses of strong light.† (source)
- Chronicler, I would like you to meet Bastas, son of Remmen, Prince of Twilight and the Telwyth Mael.† (source)
- Twilight had long fallen when a little company of laggards, their SS escorts urging them to make haste, passed the building where I was still hiding.† (source)
- "Twilight, again," he murmured.† (source)
- At twilight the sky turns a pale but intense blue, and the trees on the lawn and the shapes of the neighboring houses become silhouettes, solidly black.† (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)
- Darkness fell, leaving a false twilight of old snow.† (source)
- They seem to be people, especially in the twilight as evening comes and the edges of hallucinations start.† (source)
- Then he took off his hat, and in the October twilight, I recognized the young German watchmaker whom Father had discharged four years ago.† (source)
- Or else they would feel drawn to Night, to Twilight, to old ruins and the supernatural.† (source)
- I bolted upright, suddenly feeling like I'd been sucked into a Twilight Zone episode.† (source)
- They were passing a row of restaurants, and she could see Taki's, brightly lit in the gathering twilight.† (source)
- Then the black queen put on her red scarf and walked off into the October twilight.† (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- They walked around stark naked in the eternal twilight of the basement, defying the humidity and drafts.† (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)
- I thought, Oh my God—I'm living in the twilight zone!† (source)
- In that instant, I could almost hear the discordant melody that played on TV with The Twilight Zone.† (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)
- I followed Narciso mechanically, weak and disillusioned I tramped after him into the dark twilight of the storm.† (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)
- He went with his father to a Titans baseball game, in the twilight semipro league.† (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)
- After being so exposed to the bright Angeles sun, the palace halls looked like twilight as I waited for my eyes to adjust.† (source)
- It was still relatively light out, summer prolonging the balmy twilight warmth.† (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)
- We were going too fast, and we were too far into twilight, for me to make out the patchwork of leaves that had grown in.† (source)
- 'Why — ' Jim examined his friend, curiously, twilight in his face 'no one can tell you.† (source)
- Lil whistled kind of low, like something out of The Twilight Zone.† (source)
- Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming ...† (source)
- He grins, and his teeth are white in the twilight.† (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)
- Other glass cases contain artifacts of Kroc's life, mementos of his long years of struggle and his twilight as a billionaire.† (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)
- 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)
- Above them, the sky is purple with twilight.† (source)
- When she emerged, it was into an eerie twilight formed of heavy dust and smoke that blotted out the sun.† (source)
- Another choice: Try to find peace in the twilight zone, or climb into the monster's rocket and lift off.† (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 twilight lasted while we set up a camp just off the trail and Pol made dinner on a small cookfire.† (source)
- Those who had spawned Brewster Place, countless twilights ago, now mandated that it was to be condemned.† (source)
- The cats, for example: the two thin gray toms who appeared with every twilight and prowled the Square, stopping to examine the cars parked around its periphery-behavior puzzling to him until Mrs. Meier explained that the cats were hunting for dead birds caught in the vehicles' engine grilles.† (source)
- They should meet by twilight near the Fire Swamp.† (source)
- Then she raised her arms and lifted her head to the twilight sky.† (source)
- They got back to Wilbarger a little after sundown, before the plains had begun to lose the long 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)
- The machine comes to life in the grey twilight, blushing its way through a spectrum of soft, romantic colours.† (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)
- It was twilight in the garden, the time between day and evening.† (source)
- Half awake, half asleep, I felt as if I were myself the cave, my thoughts coursing downward through my own strange hollows ...or some impulse older and darker than thought, as old as the mindless mechanics of a bear, the twilight meditations of a wolf, a tree ...Who knows what all this means?† (source)
- But first Clyde had to convince the Boss that missing an hour or two of party time was not going to haunt the twilight years of his directorate.† (source)
- The sun went down and it began to be twilight.† (source)
- Uncle Willie sat in the twilight on the front porch mumbling or maybe singing, and smoking a ready-made.† (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)
- One twilight, just as my mother stepped on the bridge, two smoky columns spiraled up taller than she.† (source)
- We're going to be well out of the woods before twilight.† (source)
- It was twilight, and the room was in shadow: deep purples and blues except for a sliver of yellow light under the door.† (source)
- Paddling faster, eyes straining to see the darker shape in the strange twilight, he made out the whiteness of the surf over the reef.† (source)
- Between the jostling of the carriage and the long evening, everyone has fallen into a twilight sleep.† (source)
- We have lost even this twilight.† (source)
- After lingering for a long time, she slipped out of the barn into the twilight.† (source)
- For a few heartbeats, everyone stares into the twilight with eyes wide as if waiting for a nightmare to come to life.† (source)
- He saw the Mountain silent rise where twilight lies upon the knees of Valinor, and Eldamar beheld afar beyond the seas.† (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)
- 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)
- When I spoke thus to Jakob Merrill, it was in the sure knowledge that he would be dead by twilight.† (source)
- The wine or Trina's clever fingers mellowed Eve's mood toward some twilight world of relaxation.† (source)
- Maybe it's information the whitecoats never wanted anyone to find out," Fang said in the hollow Twilight Zone-y voice he used sometimes when things got unusually weird—as opposed to regular weird.† (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)
- The enormous room was hidden away from the circadian lights, in a state of perpetual twilight.† (source)
- Many Americans still harbor a twilight yearning for the sound of English speech.† (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)
- Do you guys ever watch The Twilight Zone?† (source)
- We exit from the park at Gardiner, where not much rain seems to fall, because the mountainsides show only grass and sage in the twilight.† (source)
- Twilight settled over Zuckerman's barn, and a feeling of peace.† (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)
- If I could have managed better in that twilight zone, I might not have.† (source)
- I stand alone in the twilight, at the edge of the cemetery, as my family returns to their homes, slowly, silently, heads bowed.† (source)
- Her father visits her regularly at twilight, on her evening walks home from the bakery, and whispers to her through the oak and maple trees.† (source)
- He glanced at the soft twilight around them, then at the sparkle of two wine glasses on their table.† (source)
- Men and women were coming home from work in the early twilight.† (source)
- I stand with Clay in a kind of twilight.† (source)
- The tree will be lighted every day from twilight to midnight until Jan. 2.† (source)
- We said yours was the doorway at which we first spy the tapper when he comes down from the tree, yours was the blessing of the twilight wine, the purl that brings night spirits out of doors to steal their portion before the light of day.† (source)
- He directed Wulfgar's gaze to the west, where the sky had already begun to take on the pink shades of twilight.† (source)
- If turmoil touched her heart and mind, she hid it well, for she seemed as tranquil as a country pond in a windless twilight.† (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)
- When I turned off Lee Avenue that Shabbat and started up the sunless street on which Danny lived, the feeling of having crossed into a twilight world was only a little less strong than it had been the week before.† (source)
- It is twilight again, and Lelia sits on the bed as I dress.† (source)
- We stand outside the church in twilight.† (source)
- When the sun is below the horizon, but it's still light enough to see, it's called 'civil twilight.'† (source)
- So Lucille danced, all alone in the still twilight.† (source)
- "Look," Betonie said, pointing east to Mount Taylor towering dark blue with the last twilight.† (source)
- Then there were fewer birds; and after that there was grass of an unearthly green, so bright it glowed far into the twilight, like a luminescent clock dial.† (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)
- 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)
- I feel like I was reborn into a never-ending episode of The Twilight Zone.† (source)
- We walked back jubilant that day in the coppery twilight already edged with black, like ashes around dying embers.† (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)
- That Christmas Eve at about 5 P.M., we left Jack's house in a smoky, wet twilight.† (source)
- I have given them bones, I have talked to them about this and that, I have explained the twilight, admittedly.† (source)
- They turned, and Leamas distinguished in the twilight twenty yards away three men standing, apparently waiting for Fiedler.† (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)
- 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)
- It was twilight all about the Pavilion of Silence, and the winds that circled through Heaven flowed past them.† (source)
- That the deportations from Warsaw had already been extensive may be seen from some twilight statistics.† (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)
- Do you know, at the top of the world the twilight is six months long?† (source)
- Her best friend Alice Cooksey, the librarian, claimed to have seen a Sputnik one evening at twilight.† (source)
- There was no water; but the rocks retained the warmth of the sun, and the twilight wind passed high over their heads.† (source)
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The Magi stood in shadow (the byre seemed in twilight);
They spoke in whispers, groping for words.† (source)
- There is no peace greater than that of twilight on the desert, but there was more to my waiting than a desire to watch the fading light.† (source)
- I used to watch 'Twilight Zone.'† (source)
- They sat in twilight at a ghost-white table.† (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)
- She lay with her face hidden in the pillow.... The summer day became vast and opalescent with twilight.† (source)
- They're stuck in a kind of twilight life.† (source)
- The lights of the city were blinking on at twilight.† (source)
- In the twilight of morphling, Peeta whispers the word and I go searching for him.† (source)
- You only prolonged my long, painful passing, my dark twilight sleep.† (source)
- It's twilight," Edward murmured, looking at the western horizon, obscured as it was with clouds.† (source)
- I reach for Prim in the twilight, clamp my hand on her leg, and pull myself over to her.† (source)
- Faint twilight angles through smoke and shutter slats in hazy red stripes.† (source)
- "All kinds...." he says, his voice lingering in the twilight.† (source)
- He sat watching the twilight fade beyond the kitchen windows.† (source)
- The growing darkness of twilight was a perfect fit for how grim things felt to Thomas.† (source)
- It was a dim, cloudy twilight, but I knew my way around by now.† (source)
- Beneath the Buick, I slipped into a warm and dreamy twilight.† (source)
- He stood at a rise in the road and tried to take his bearings in the twilight.† (source)
- Now Gogol looks onto a field, some spindly trees against a cobalt twilight sky.† (source)
- It was getting dark outside, and his snow-white shirt shone in the gathering twilight.† (source)
- The ball flew high above the cheering crowd into the twilight sky, over the billboarded fence.† (source)
- Twilight had ended but the kitchen window cast enough light.† (source)
- The bright moon is already on the rise, filling the arena with that strange twilight.† (source)
- Let's pretend it's a Twilight movie and that we're vampires in the forest," I said to Moniba.† (source)
- It was twilight in a spooky churchyard, and the hairs on the back of her neck were prickling.† (source)
- Because of the broken windows, the vast room was in semi-twilight.† (source)
- When I'd stumbled into our makeshift camp in the woods at twilight, Susie had almost shot me.† (source)
- It produced an eerie twilight the likes of which Roran had never imagined.† (source)
- There was the feel of permanent twilight.† (source)
- When my eyes were used to the twilight again, there was no cab left.† (source)
- Though it had been twilight on the street, here in the alley it was as dark as nightfall.† (source)
- "You die now!" he promised, arakh shivering through the red twilight.† (source)
- Salammbo, Strange Fugitive, Twilight of the Idols, A Farewell to Arms.† (source)
- The sudden twilight cast his face in shadow under the cowl of the robe.† (source)
- Carvahall's lights shimmered nearby in the twilight; the houses cast long shadows.† (source)
- Snakes And Thorns "None of that matters now," said Twilight.† (source)
- Twilight fell upon the Glade and Alby's screams continued to haunt the air.† (source)
- When the afternoon twilight arrived, the dwarves hung a round lantern at each corner of the rafts.† (source)
- I remember how peaceful the twilight was.† (source)
- I float in and out of a delirious twilight sleep while they throw everything at the infection.† (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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