Both Uses of
twilight
in
The Railway Children
- Two nights after the dawning of Peter's idea he beckoned the girls mysteriously at the twilight hour.
p. 37.1 *twilight = the time of day between daylight and darknesseditor's notes: In this context, beckoned means "asked them to join him."
- Peter wrung the water from his sleeves and knicker-bocker legs as well as he could, and it was Bobbie who ran like the wind across the bridge and up the long white quiet twilight road towards the 'Rose and Crown'.
p. 154.5twilight = lit by light from 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