All 9 Uses of
twilight
in
The Jungle Book
- By Red Flower Bagheera meant fire, only no creature in the jungle will call fire by its proper name. Every beast lives in deadly fear of it, and invents a hundred ways of describing it.
"The Red Flower?" said Mowgli. "That grows outside their huts in the twilight."
Chpt 1.twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
- "By the Broken Lock that freed me," said Bagheera, when twilight had fallen, "thou art no slow goer!"
Chpt 3.
- Have a care, manling, that I do not mistake thee for a monkey some twilight when I have newly changed my coat.
Chpt 3.
- Mowgli walked on, for he was feeling hungry, and when he came to the village gate he saw the big thorn-bush that was drawn up before the gate at twilight, pushed to one side.
Chpt 5.
- ...and now and again the tiger carried off a man at twilight, within sight of the village gates.
Chpt 5. *
- Mowgli went on with his work, but it was nearly twilight before he and the wolves had drawn the great gray skin clear of the body.
Chpt 5.
- The herd rounded up in the misty twilight, and when they got near the village Mowgli saw lights, and heard the conches and bells in the temple blowing and banging.
Chpt 5.
- At the gates in the twilight he would kill Mowgli, the Frog!
Chpt 6.
- Little Toomai lay back and slept all through the long afternoon and into the twilight, and while he slept Petersen Sahib and Machua Appa followed the track of the two elephants for fifteen miles across the hills.
Chpt 11.
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