All 4 Uses
twilight
in
Tuck Everlasting
(Edited)
- Indeed, he seemed almost to hang suspended there in the twilight.
p. 18.3twilight = light from the time of day between daylight and darkness
- For, through the twilight sounds of crickets and sighing trees, a faint, surprising wisp of music came floating to them, and all three turned toward it, toward the wood.
p. 20.4twilight = time of day between daylight and darkness
- The last stains of sunset had melted away, and the twilight died, too,
p. 21.6 *twilight = light from the sky between daylight and darkness
- She rocked, gazing out at the twilight, and the soothing feeling came reliably into her bones.
p. 108.3twilight = 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) Much more rarely, twilight can refer to