All 5 Uses of
twilight
in
The Call of the Wild
- He plunged into the swimming tank or went hunting with the Judge's sons; he escorted Mollie and Alice, the Judge's daughters, on long twilight or early morning rambles; on wintry nights he lay at the Judge's feet before the roaring library fire; he carried the Judge's grandsons on his back, or rolled them in the grass, and guarded their footsteps through wild adventures down to the fountain in the stable yard, and even beyond, where the paddocks were, and the berry patches.
p. 5.6twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
- It was dawn by three in the morning, and twilight lingered till nine at night.
p. 115.7
- 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.
p. 159.9 *twilight = the time of day between daylight and darknesseditor's notes: During the summer, twilight can last for hours (even through midnight) in the far northern latitudes due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.
- He made it clear to Buck that he was to come, and they ran side by side through the sombre twilight, straight up the creek bed, into the gorge from which it issued, and across the bleak divide where it took its rise.
p. 162.6twilight = light from the time of day between daylight and darkness
- As twilight fell the old bull stood with lowered head, watching his mates—the cows he had known, the calves he had fathered, the bulls he had mastered—as they shambled on at a rapid pace through the fading light.
p. 171.2twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, twilight can refer to