All 6 Uses of
twilight
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- 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.
p. 46.9twilights = the time of day between daylight and darkness
- In summertime, twilights are long and peaceful.
p. 48.3 *
- 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.
p. 115.9
- 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.
p. 185.7 *twilight = elderly years
- There were delicious smells about: chicken, bacon frying crisp as the twilight air.
p. 195.2twilight = of the time of day between daylight and darkness
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- 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.
p. 163.6 *twilight = (figurative) the end-of-the-day before falling asleep
Definitions:
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(1)
(twilight as in: pink clouds in a twilight sky) the time of day between daylight and darkness (just after sunset or just before sunrise); or the light from the sky at that time
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(2)
(twilight as in: the twilight of her career) a condition of decline following successes
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, twilight can refer to