All 9 Uses of
twilight
in
The Return of the King
- It was twilight: the cold dawn was at hand again, and chill grey mists were about them.†
Chpt 5.1
- Who shall call them from the prey twilight, the forgotten people?†
Chpt 5.2
- Yet as Gimli after learned it was still two hours ere sunset of the day on which they had set out from Dunharrow; though for all that he could then tell it might have been twilight in some later year, or in some other world.†
Chpt 5.2
- Twilight lay upon the waterfalls.†
Chpt 5.3 *
- As they drew near Merry saw that the rider was a woman with long braided hair gleaming in the twilight, yet she wore a helm and was clad to the waist like a warrior and girded with a sword.†
Chpt 5.3
- Candles were lit in their chamber, for only a dim twilight came through the windows; the air was heavy as with approaching thunder.†
Chpt 5.4
- Presently Pippin saw torches, and followed by a press of people two horsemen riding slowly: one was in white but shining no longer, pale in the twilight as if his fire was spent or veiled; the other was dark and his head was bowed.†
Chpt 5.4
- At last they came to Rath Danen and hastened towards the House of the Stewards, looming in the twilight under its great dome.†
Chpt 5.7
- Farmer Cotton came up close and stared at him in the twilight.†
Chpt 6.8
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