All 20 Uses of
twilight
in
Anne Of Green Gables
- Below the boughs the air was full of a purple twilight and far ahead a glimpse of painted sunset sky shone like a great rose window at the end of a cathedral aisle.†
Chpt 2
- At last they lingered on one away to the left, far back from the road, dimly white with blossoming trees in the twilight of the surrounding woods.†
Chpt 2
- That bridge led Anne's dancing feet up over a wooded hill beyond, where perpetual twilight reigned under the straight, thick-growing firs and spruces; the only flowers there were myriads of delicate "June bells," those shyest and sweetest of woodland blooms, and a few pale, aerial starflowers, like the spirits of last year's blossoms.†
Chpt 9
- When Marilla went home Anne came out of the fragrant twilight of the orchard with a sheaf of white narcissi in her hands.†
Chpt 10
- She learned her lessons at home, did her chores, and played with Diana in the chilly purple autumn twilights; but when she met Gilbert Blythe on the road or encountered him in Sunday school she passed him by with an icy contempt that was no whit thawed by his evident desire to appease her.†
Chpt 15
- One evening Marilla, coming in from the orchard with a basket of apples, found Anne sitting along by the east window in the twilight, crying bitterly.†
Chpt 15
- Katie Boulter gave her a perfume bottle to keep slate water in, and Julia Bell copied carefully on a piece of pale pink paper scalloped on the edges the following effusion: When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.†
Chpt 17
- Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.†
Chpt 18
- All the school girls and boys had one golden afternoon gathering them, coming home in the clear, echoing twilight with arms and baskets full of flowery spoil.†
Chpt 20
- Why, it's only twilight.†
Chpt 20
- She talked it all over with Diana Tuesday night in the twilight, as they sat on the big red stones by the Dryad's Bubble and made rainbows in the water with little twigs dipped in fir balsam.†
Chpt 21
- Anne evidently got through her visit without any serious breach of "etiquette," for she came home through the twilight, under a great, high-sprung sky gloried over with trails of saffron and rosy cloud, in a beatified state of mind and told Marilla all about it happily, sitting on the big red-sandstone slab at the kitchen door with her tired curly head in Marilla's gingham lap.†
Chpt 22
- He had come into the kitchen, in the twilight of a cold, gray December evening, and had sat down in the woodbox corner to take off his heavy boots, unconscious of the fact that Anne and a bevy of her schoolmates were having a practice of "The Fairy Queen" in the sitting room.†
Chpt 25
- 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.
Chpt 30 *twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness (in this case, just after sunset; though in other instances, it could be just before sunrise)
- And that night, when Anne had gone to prayer meeting with Diana, Marilla sat alone in the wintry twilight and indulged in the weakness of a cry.†
Chpt 31
- They were together in the east gable chamber; outside it was only twilight—a lovely yellowish-green twilight with a clear-blue cloudless sky.†
Chpt 33
- They were together in the east gable chamber; outside it was only twilight—a lovely yellowish-green twilight with a clear-blue cloudless sky.†
Chpt 33
- It was lonesomer still when Anne found herself alone in her hall bedroom that night at twilight.†
Chpt 34
- Marilla is all alone and she gets lonely at twilight.†
Chpt 37
- They liked to sit there when the twilight came down and the white moths flew about in the garden and the odor of mint filled the dewy air.†
Chpt 38
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