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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Twilight is closing in and I am ill at ease.
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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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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
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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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The last stains of sunset had melted away, and the twilight died, too,
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twilight = light from the sky between daylight and darkness
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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)
- 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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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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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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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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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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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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"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 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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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
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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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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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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 = the time of day between daylight and darkness
- The brief day drew to a close in a long, slow twilight. (source)
- Two nights after the dawning of Peter's idea he beckoned the girls mysteriously at the twilight hour. (source)
- ...and now and again the tiger carried off a man at twilight, within sight of the village gates. (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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After dinner she returned to the tree and sat there until twilight, when she heard Atticus call her.
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twilight = 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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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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Indeed, he seemed almost to hang suspended there in the twilight.
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twilight = light from the time of day between daylight and darkness
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Kit stood shivering in the damp twilight.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
- She rocked, gazing out at the twilight, and the soothing feeling came reliably into her bones. (source)
- Presently the four set out together into the still, frosty twilight. (source)
- But twilight has arrived and their window of attack on me is closing. (source)
- ...and watching the first fireflies of twilight, and greeting their neighbors who strolled by. (source)
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In the thundery twilight, Blackavar looked more sick and dejected than ever.
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twilight = the light from the time of day between daylight and darkness
- They fed among the dew and the long shadows, with twilight already fallen in the fields below. (source)
- In the twilight a swift flew screaming overhead and Hazel turned to Dandelion. (source)
- They reached the sheds in the twilight after sunset. (source)
- In the livid, foggy twilight, Fiver stared at the board. (source)
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The May sunset was red in clouds, and there was still half an hour to twilight.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
- The evening came on cold and misty, and well before twilight a fog came down thick. (source)
- Underfoot the healthy green turf was brushed with dew, and ahead of us we could see a faint green haze hanging above the grass, shot through with the twilight sun. (source)
- Twilights are long, but darkness comes suddenly; the sky turns from dull orange to blue-black before one can take five steps, and with the light goes the last ray of the day's heat, leaving livingroom weather. (source)
- He would return his hat to his head, swing me to his shoulders in her very presence, and we would go home in the twilight. (source)
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For, through the twilight sounds of crickets and sighing trees, a faint, surprising wisp of music came floating to them, and all three turned toward it, toward the wood.
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twilight = time of day between daylight and darkness
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But I kept aloof from their more foolhardy schemes for a while, and on pain of being called a girl, I spent most of the remaining twilights that summer sitting with Miss Maudie Atkinson on her front porch.
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twilights = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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He never seemed to single her out, but sometimes he consented when she suggested that they walk along the green in the twilight.
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twilight = light from the sky between daylight and darkness
- Should she tell William Ashby about Hannah? she wondered that evening as they sat talking in the summer twilight. (source)
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Suppose she should never sit in the twilight with Mercy, or see Judith in the new house, or the girl Prudence would grow to be?
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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In the twilight the memory of him was very sharp, the soft pink skin aging on his fine cheekbones, the thin aristocratic nose, the eyes, so shrewd and yet so loving.
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twilight = light from the sky between daylight and darkness
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Today, he reported, as the family moved inside to escape the twilight mist that rose from the river, he had overseen the carpenter who was splitting the white oak for the clapboards.
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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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when we ran out of the trees I could see the twilight again, that quality of light as if time really had stopped for a while, with the sun hanging just under the horizon,
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twilight = 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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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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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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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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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
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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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It might be just after twilight and it might be midnight.
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twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
- But, as twilight came, they at last entered the final lap of the long journey. (source)
- Twilight had fallen when the train pulled into Atlanta and a light misting rain obscured the town. (source)
- Oh, lazy days and warm still country twilights! (source)
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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
- He had emerged from that crimson twilight into the common electric glare with a self-consciousness intensified to the pitch of agony. (source)
- The liftman slammed the gates, touched a button and instantly dropped back into the droning twilight of the well, (source)
- Their wanderings through the crimson twilight had brought them to the neighborhood of Metre 170 on Rack 9. (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
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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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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
- 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. (source)
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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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In the dull twilight of the winter afternoon she came to the end of the long road which had begun the night Atlanta fell.
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twilight = light from the sky 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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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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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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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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It was a twilight engagement.
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twilight = elderly years
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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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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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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
- ...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. (source)
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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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"Sunsets are never simple.
Twilight is refracted and reflected
But never true.
Eventide is a disguise
Covering tracks,
Covering lies.
"We don't care
That dusk deceives.
We see brilliant colors,
And never learn
The sun has dropped
Beneath the earth
By the time we see the burn.
"Sunsets are in disguise,
Covering truths, covering lies.
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- Moniba and I had been reading the Twilight books and longed to be vampires.† (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)
- For entertainment, Odysseus told them heroic stories of Achilles, Ajax, Diomedes, making them live again in the twilight air and perform their glorious deeds.† (source)
- Twilight fell upon the Glade and Alby's screams continued to haunt the air.† (source)
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- I was a little shaken as we walked back home in the twilight.† (source)
- It reminded me of the floating door in the opening credits of the original Twilight Zone.† (source)
- Sophie felt as if the entire night had become some kind of twilight zone where nothing was as she expected.† (source)
- It was late into the long twilight before the road crossed the creek.† (source)
- They walked for about ten minutes until they reached a place where the trees stood so closely together that it was as dark as twilight and there was no snow at all on the ground.† (source)
- He stood up, a midnight shadow in the twilight.† (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)
- 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.† (source)
- I looked down at the paper plates in my hands, bluing in the twilight.† (source)
- Faint twilight angles through smoke and shutter slats in hazy red stripes.† (source)
- But inside it's perpetual twilight.† (source)
- I was getting antsy to leave—I wanted out of this twilight zone!† (source)
- I can drive in twilight, and save the sunny part of the day for charging.† (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)
- Now Gogol looks onto a field, some spindly trees against a cobalt twilight sky.† (source)
- Twilight deepened.† (source)
- The bright moon is already on the rise, filling the arena with that strange twilight.† (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)
- I bolted upright, suddenly feeling like I'd been sucked into a Twilight Zone episode.† (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)
- Smoky desert twilight, shades drawn.† (source)
- An old lady stood there smiling, her dentures glowing white in the perpetual green twilight of the hallway.† (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)
- Carvahall's lights shimmered nearby in the twilight; the houses cast long shadows.† (source)
- Heads nodded in the roseate twilight.† (source)
- "Twilight, again," he murmured.† (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)
- They seem to be people, especially in the twilight as evening comes and the edges of hallucinations start.† (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)
- Darkness fell, leaving a false twilight of old snow.† (source)
- Then the black queen put on her red scarf and walked off into the October twilight.† (source)
- Their first month living together, Mae had broken her jaw one twilight, after fainting, flu-ridden and underfed, during finals.† (source)
- "All kinds…." he says, his voice lingering in the twilight.† (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)
- There in the bright spring twilight stood a woman.† (source)
- Lil whistled kind of low, like something out of The Twilight Zone.† (source)
- He felt invisible in the soft twilight.† (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)
- Other glass cases contain artifacts of Kroc's life, mementos of his long years of struggle and his twilight as a billionaire.† (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)
- 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)
- Snakes And Thorns "None of that matters now," said Twilight.† (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)
- In the rapidly falling twilight, his hair looked coppery gold.† (source)
- Twilight came on.† (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)
- Unexpected fires at twilight.† (source)
- What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars ….† (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)
- The enormous room was hidden away from the circadian lights, in a state of perpetual twilight.† (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)
- In that instant, I could almost hear the discordant melody that played on TV with The Twilight Zone.† (source)
- The sun is below the horizon now and twilight is on us.† (source)
- He sat watching the twilight fade beyond the kitchen windows.† (source)
- Or else they would feel drawn to Night, to Twilight, to old ruins and the supernatural.† (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)
- We're going to be well out of the woods before twilight."† (source)
- Uncle Willie sat in the twilight on the front porch mumbling or maybe singing, and smoking a ready-made.† (source)
- It was still relatively light out, summer prolonging the balmy twilight warmth.† (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)
- They should meet by twilight near the Fire Swamp.† (source)
- He grins, and his teeth are white in the twilight.† (source)
- The chief ceremony of their day is performed at twilight.† (source)
- Well, it was a little bit Twilight Zone" 'Had Peter ever said anything like that to you before?† (source)
- He went with his father to a Titans baseball game, in the twilight semipro league.† (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)
- 'Why — ' Jim examined his friend, curiously, twilight in his face 'no one can tell you.† (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)
- Rosie is at the far end of the menagerie, and as my eyes adjust to the twilight I see someone standing beside her.† (source)
- I thought, Oh my God—I'm living in the twilight zone!† (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)
- 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)
- I glanced back at Zu out of the corner of my eye, but the twilight had lulled her to sleep.† (source)
- They ate, thanked Roxy and her man Zack in the simple uneffusive mountain fashion, and started away in the twilight of dawn.† (source)
- We have lost even this twilight.† (source)
- He said, "Only a mole that sneaks through the twilight."† (source)
- The machine comes to life in the grey twilight, blushing its way through a spectrum of soft, romantic colours.† (source)
- She was just a shape in the twilight.† (source)
- All that twilight litter.† (source)
- The sun has set, the sky settling into that hazy blue of 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)
- 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)
- Another choice: Try to find peace in the twilight zone, or climb into the monster's rocket and lift off.† (source)
- Then she raised her arms and lifted her head to the twilight sky.† (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)
- Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade!† (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)
- It was a quiet twilight evening, much like tonight.† (source)
- They walked around stark naked in the eternal twilight of the basement, defying the humidity and drafts.† (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)
- 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)
- She tried not to think of what he was going to do to her out here in these bewildering Twilight Zone-type woods.† (source)
- I followed Narciso mechanically, weak and disillusioned I tramped after him into the dark twilight of the storm.† (source)
- It was twilight in the garden, the time between day and evening.† (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)
- I did not want to lose that twilight sleep, with its odors and sounds and whispered flow of music.† (source)
- The sun went down and it began to be twilight.† (source)
- Twilight settled over Zuckerman's barn, and a feeling of peace.† (source)
- Not in the twilight.† (source)
- If I could have managed better in that twilight zone, I might not have.† (source)
- After lingering for a long time, she slipped out of the barn into the twilight.† (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)
- When I spoke thus to Jakob Merrill, it was in the sure knowledge that he would be dead by twilight.† (source)
- Listen for me at twilight.† (source)
- The late-summer twilight had finally arrived.† (source)
- As twilight deepens, their mothers call them in.† (source)
- Those who had spawned Brewster Place, countless twilights ago, now mandated that it was to be condemned.† (source)
- So Lucille danced, all alone in the still twilight.† (source)
- I stand with Clay in a kind of 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)
- "When the sun is below the horizon, but it's still light enough to see, it's called 'civil twilight.'† (source)
- Twilight is sliding fast into full dark around us.† (source)
- It's the twilight, he thought; I hate the twilight.† (source)
- Esther's sitting by the cistern watching Sammy and Magda play in the twilight.† (source)
- Many Americans still harbor a twilight yearning for the sound of English speech.† (source)
- A twilight whisper in the leaves before The great araba falls?† (source)
- The tree will be lighted every day from twilight to midnight until Jan. 2.† (source)
- We stand outside the church in twilight.† (source)
- Almost twilight.† (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)
- No, The Twilight Zone.† (source)
- Men and women were coming home from work in the early twilight.† (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)
- He directed Wulfgar's gaze to the west, where the sky had already begun to take on the pink shades of twilight.† (source)
- The wine or Trina's clever fingers mellowed Eve's mood toward some twilight world of relaxation.† (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- I feel like I was reborn into a never-ending episode of The Twilight Zone.† (source)
- The servants stalking mosquitoes at twilight, crafty, pouncing on the window screens.† (source)
- "Look," Betonie said, pointing east to Mount Taylor towering dark blue with the last twilight.† (source)
- That Christmas Eve at about 5 P.M., we left Jack's house in a smoky, wet twilight.† (source)
- In this growing twilight, a child could hide and never be found.† (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)
- Her best friend Alice Cooksey, the librarian, claimed to have seen a Sputnik one evening at twilight.† (source)
- Perhaps she'd be hounded someday as far as joining Tristero itself, if it existed, in its twilight, its aloofness, its waiting.† (source)
- In the neon glare at twilight hundreds of sports and idlers jammed the streets.† (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)
- Twilight, in the Northern Territory, is short.† (source)
- But I see what it is, you are not from these parts, you don't know what our twilights can do.† (source)
- Do you know, at the top of the world the twilight is six months long?† (source)
- In a rage she ran to the kitchen screen door, opened it wide, and flung Doris's present into the darkening twilight.† (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)
- I used to watch 'Twilight Zone.'† (source)
- With the coming of twilight Pio was awake.† (source)
- They sat in twilight at a ghost-white table.† (source)
- And he turned without another word and walked quickly away into the twilight.† (source)
- The Magi stood in shadow (the byre seemed in twilight); They spoke in whispers, groping for words.† (source)
- The sun had set, the glow of twilight was touched with darkness, before he came out.† (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)
- They're stuck in a kind of twilight life.† (source)
- In the twilight of morphling, Peeta whispers the word and I go searching for him.† (source)
- The grass was still wet and looked almost black in the twilight.† (source)
- It was nearly twilight now in Idris: The sky was dark as cobalt.† (source)
- You only prolonged my long, painful passing, my dark twilight sleep.† (source)
- It was getting dark outside, and his snow-white shirt shone in the gathering twilight.† (source)
- There were once three brothers who were traveling along a lonely, winding road at twilight —† (source)
- He stood at a rise in the road and tried to take his bearings in the twilight.† (source)
- Because of the broken windows, the vast room was in semi-twilight.† (source)
- The sky had turned a twilight iron gray and the black clouds looked like heavy stones.† (source)
- Evan fires; the twilight stillness shatters.† (source)
- What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars ….† (source)
- The sun dimmed from midday to twilight; the air from cool to frigid.† (source)
- When my eyes were used to the twilight again, there was no cab left.† (source)
- In the twilight, her wild volutions of hair look more radiant than ever: a struck match.† (source)
- Not cloudy, not twilight, not the early minutes of dawn.† (source)
- Let's pretend it's a Twilight movie and that we're vampires in the forest," I said to Moniba.† (source)
- "You die now!" he promised, arakh shivering through the red twilight.† (source)
- By the time I reached the main road, coming down off the mountain, twilight had begun to spread.† (source)
- He sat in the crypt, aching to be out in the summer's twilight, under the ghost moon.† (source)
- Twilight was falling and the streets below were bathed in a reddish purple glow.† (source)
- "Do you think…" began Sol but at the moment Rachel approached them in the autumn twilight.† (source)
- Almondine stood waiting for him in the midday twilight of pinholes and cracks.† (source)
- I remember how peaceful the twilight was.† (source)
- I reach for Prim in the twilight, clamp my hand on her leg, and pull myself over to her.† (source)
- Soon twilight faded into darkness and my head began to spin pleasantly from the beer.† (source)
- I look at the map in the twilight, and then look at it some more with the flashlight.† (source)
- It's twilight," Edward murmured, looking at the western horizon, obscured as it was with clouds.† (source)
- The sudden twilight cast his face in shadow under the cowl of the robe.† (source)
- The growing darkness of twilight was a perfect fit for how grim things felt to Thomas.† (source)
- I float in and out of a delirious twilight sleep while they throw everything at the infection.† (source)
- The last of twilight had faded from the sky by the time I found the square.† (source)
- She never began begging before twilight came on, probably for fear of being recognized.† (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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