All 8 Uses
twilight
in
All the Pretty Horses
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- The sun was down and a blue twilight filled the park and...
Chpt 4 *twilight = the light from the sky between daylight and darkness (in this case just after sunset)
- Early winter twilight in the streets.†
Chpt 1
- In the gray twilight those retchings seemed to echo like the calls of some rude provisional species loosed upon that waste.†
Chpt 1
- He thought she might overtake him that they could change the horses back again but she did not and in the red twilight he led the black horse past Armando's house afoot and took it to the stable behind the house and removed the bridle and loosed the cinches and left it standing in the bay saddled and tied with a rope halter to the hitchingrail.†
Chpt 2
- Then they went on from sight past the gerente's house, five riders riding singlefile down out of the north through the twilight toward the tile-roofed ranchhouse below them.†
Chpt 2
- The country they traversed was advanced in season and the acacia was in bloom and there had been rain in the mountains and the grass along the selvedge of the draws was green and blowsy in the long twilight where they rode.†
Chpt 3
- He backed away down the tables and turned and staggered to the door and unlatched it and walked wobbling out into the deep blue twilight.†
Chpt 3
- The floodplain he crossed was walled about with fallen traprock and in the twilight the little desert foxes had come out to sit along the walls silent and regal as icons watching the night come and the doves called from the acacia and then night fell dark as Egypt and there was just the stillness and the silence and the sound of the horses breathing and the sound of their hooves clopping in the dark.†
Chpt 4
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