Both Uses of
twilight
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvellous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of…†
p. 31..8
- The court was very cool and a little damp, and full of premature twilight, although the sky, high up overhead, was still bright with sunset.†
p. 49..1 *
Definition:
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(twilight as in: pink clouds in a twilight sky) the time of day between daylight and darkness (just after sunset or just before sunrise); or the light from the sky at that time