Use sunset in a sentence
Sentences starting with sunset
- Sunset came, bringing with the end of her labor a patient calmness and power to wait that had not been hers earlier in the day. [13]
- Sunset and twilight gave way to night, and the canyon bird whistled its melancholy notes, and the wind sang softly in the cliffs, and the camp-fire blazed and burned down to red embers. [13]
- Sunset was almost come, as David left the city and galloped away to send forces to stop the gap of danger before it was filled by the foe. [11]
- Sunset had come, and, with it, the Muezzin's call to prayer from the minaret of a mosque hard by. [11]
- Sunset had come, and they had been foiled; but hunger demanded the feast. [11]
Sentences ending with sunset
- The money for your son shall be conveyed to you to-day before sunset. [10]
- One word more: You must be in the Circus by sunset. [10]
- Only the drawbridge will be raised after sunset. [10]
- Sunset--the Three Pashas were to die at sunset! [11]
- For one thing, weather permitting, they would all breakfast at twelve on the yacht, and then sail about the harbor, and come home in the sunset. [4]
- Did not its waters lead, after long wanderings, to the great highway of the world, and open to her the gates of those cities from which she could take her departure unchallenged towards the lands of the morning or of the sunset? [6]
- Emerging from the vestibule of the theatre, Janet seemed not to see the slushy street, her eyes shone with a silver light like that of a mountain lake in a stormy sunset. [9]
- I have just ventured to send out a carrier dove," he added, turning to the artist, "to inform Myrtilus that he may expect you before sunset. [10]
- What is the use of being the wife of the imperial magistrate, if a Nuremberg drawbridge cannot be raised for me even after sunset? [10]
- He had already three engagements of violence for sunset. [11]
Short sentences using sunset
- My banishment began at sunset. [11]
- You will start at sunset! [10]
Sentences containing sunset two or more times
- There was a wonderful sunset beyond the Capitol, but Mr. Balch did not talk about the sunset, although Jethro was watching it from behind the curtains. [9]
- On Friday she came to him, on Friday at sunset, for the days were growing longer, and that was the happiest sunset of his life. [9]
More example sentences with the word sunset in them
- This day perhaps would witness the sunset of his life's joy, would drive him forth once more to war--to fight, and do nothing but fight, till death should meet him on the battle-field. [10]
- Those who fought with us but now were to shoot us at sunset, and remain here till other troops came. [11]
- After sunset the wind had dropped. [2]
- Before sunset we will conduct you to the gate of the temple. [10]
- It was sunset when they started, and they had not gone a thousand yards before some of the mutineering ships opened fire on the Ariadne. [11]
- Before sunset they were out in the open, and could feel the long ocean swell. [4]
- On Sunday the weather broke in a violent storm of wind and rain, and at sunset, when it abated, there were portentous gleams on the hills, and threatening clouds lurking about the sky. [4]
- And once, as we drifted into an inlet at sunset, we caught sight of the shaggy head of a bear above the brown water, and leaping down into the cabin I primed the rifle that stood there and shot him. [9]
- There they silently watched the sunset, golden, purple and splendid--and ominous, as the captain knew. [11]
- She, whose nature was so hopeful that, when the glow of the sunset faded, she already anticipated with delight the rosy dawn of the next day, now beheld in Cleopatra's hand the reed which was to sign the death-sentence of Dion and herself. [10]
- The widow Tynan was practical, and she saw none of those things which made her daughter stand for minutes at a time and look into the distance over the prairie towards the sunset light or the grey- blue foothills. [11]
- At sunset it was lighted, but long before midnight it was extinguished. [11]
- When the dessert was finally eaten, and after sunset, in the brilliant light of the lamps and candles, greater attention was paid to the mixing vessels, all remained silent to listen to his fervid speech. [10]
- The sunset light was falling upon the splendid panorama and softening it. [4]
- A pious seer was charged to tell him more exactly what this was; and he would meet him if he went at about sunset to the shrine of Isis, and called three times on the name of Severus before the altar of the goddess. [10]
- For awhile there was a partial break, which furnished about such a sunset as will be exhibited when the Last Day comes and the universe tumbles together in wreck and ruin. [5]
- Only these: I want the well and the surroundings for the space of half a mile, entirely to myself from sunset to-day until I remove the ban--and nobody allowed to cross the ground but by my authority. [5]
- She used to wander off and spend whole days in the country, and come back after sunset with her arms full. [9]
- At sunset that very day several guests had arrived as usual, followed by Antyllus, a youth of nineteen. [10]
- But Barine, who usually could never gaze her fill at such a spectacle, did not thank her, for this sunset reminded her of another which she had lately watched at Dion's side, and she again broke into convulsive sobs. [10]
- Both were silent under the spell, but a yearning arose within him when he glanced at the sunset glow on her face: would sunsets hereafter bring sadness? [9]
- Our bedroom has two great glass bird-cages (enclosed balconies) one looking toward the Rhine valley and sunset, the other looking up the Neckar cul-de-sac, and naturally we spend nearly all our time in these --when one is sunny the other is shady. [5]
- Towards sunset about twenty hay-wagons arrived and camped around the house and all the teamsters came in to supper--a very, very rough set. [5]
- It is the true Sunset Land: I am sure no other country can show so good a right to the name. [5]
- He proposed to travel after sunset, with a few faithful servants on swift horses as far as Keft, and from thence ride fast across the desert to the Red Sea, where they could take a Phoenician ship, and sail to Aila. [10]
- But they came too late; just before sunset Herr Ernst had availed himself of the visit of the imperial forester, Waldstromer, to give him the petition to convey to the protonotary, by whom it was to reach the Emperor. [10]
- It is time to be rural, to adore the country, to speak about the dew on the upland pasture, and the exquisite view from Sunset Hill. [4]
- The legion was to assemble again at sunset at the Gate of the Sun, at the eastern end of the road, after having swept it from end to end. [10]
- We made good time; and a couple of hours before sunset we stood upon the high confines of the Valley of Holiness, and our eyes swept it from end to end and noted its features. [5]
- During his visitation throughout the rambling buildings Obada had looked out for spots that might suit his purpose, and two hours after sunset he had lighted fire after fire with his own hand, in secret and undetected. [10]
- It seemed as though they were riding into the sunset. [11]
- As soon as this reaches you, arrange to have some unpretending litters ready for us every evening at sunset. [10]
- The gate to this kingdom was placed in the West among the sunset hills, where the sun goes down daily,--where he dies. [10]
- Fully possessed by this dream of the future, he had long ceased to gaze at the glories of the sunset and was sitting with eyes fixed on the ground. [10]
- If they conquered, they were to join the young followers of Ephraim before sunset. [10]
- In an hour they were on their way again, and towards sunset they had reached the foot of Manitou Mountain. [11]
- In this country there is no twilight, and with sunset came instantly the dusk. [11]
- Barine's mother was there also, so Anukis could inform them of the fate of Didymus and his brother, and tell them that he, Dion, intended to leave her house and the city an hour after sunset. [10]
- An hour after the two gossips had had their say Gabriel Druse paced up and down the veranda of his house, stopping now and then to view the tumbling, hurrying Sagalac, or to dwell upon the sunset which crimsoned and bronzed the western sky. [11]
- At sunset on the thirteenth day, Kassandane sent to beg a visit from him. [10]
- Towards sunset of the third day, when the young gentlemen thought they ought to be near the town of Magnolia, near which they had been directed to find the engineers' camp, they descried a log house and drew up before it to enquire the way. [5]
- Something out of the sunset, out of the glorious freshness and primal majesty of the new land, diffused through the room where those four people stood, and made them silent. [11]
- A glance at the sky showed him that it wanted still an hour and a half of sunset. [10]
- In the distance the shadowed western ridge hung like a curtain of deep blue velvet against the sunset. [9]
- One evening when the sails flapped idly and the blocks rattled, when they had been watching in silence the flaming orange of the sunset above the amethystine Camden hills, he spoke the words for which she had been waiting. [9]
- Get you to the Palace of Abdin, and wait upon me at sunset after prayers," said Ismail. [11]
- We sailed by the hotel in the mellow glow of sunset, and came slashing down with the mad current into the narrow passage between the dikes. [5]
- Then there was the evening promenading on the broad verandas and out upon the miniature pier, or at sunset by the water-batteries of the old fort --such a peaceful old fortress as it is. [4]
- By infinitesimal degrees the dark cloud-line merged upward into the golden-red haze of the afterglow of sunset. [13]
- Below us, round the curving bay, lies white Chillon; and at sunset we row down to it over the bewitched water, and wait under its grim walls till the failing light brings back the romance of castle and prisoner. [4]
- We assembled in the court-yard just before sunset. [10]
- A voice from the bed at the foot of which she stood drew her gaze away from the sunset sky to meet the bright, troubled eyes. [11]
- I went down the backbone of the limestone ridge towards the sea the other afternoon, before sunset, and unexpectedly came upon a group of little stone cottages on a ledge, which are quite hidden from below. [4]
- So it happened that one evening just at sunset, Wassef came to his hut, with the sun like the red rim of a huge thumb-nail in the sky behind him, ready beyond telling for his breakfast, and found nothing. [11]
- He had fancied that he saw sails on the horizon at sunset, but the swiftest galley became a hedgehog when the wind blew against its prow, and even checked the oars. [10]
- Let it be that after to-morrow night at sunset none shall speak to him till that time be come, the first day of winter. [11]
- Not everybody was taking joy of sunrises and losing himself in the delicate contentment of the sunset. [11]
- No alarm was taken when they threw out a skirmish-line of magazines and began to deploy an occasional wild poet, who advanced in buckskin leggings, revolver in hand, or a stray sharp-shooting sketcher clad in the picturesque robes of the sunset. [4]
- They started at sunset, two hours ago, and the evening meal is already prepared; they cannot remain away much longer. [10]
- One evening, towards sunset, the comfortable citizen, taking the mild air on his piazza, sees an interesting figure approach. [4]
- An hour before sunset, Mr. Bixby took the wheel and Mr. W----stepped aside. [5]
- But just at sunset, hearing that the massacre was ended, the man had incautiously gone out into the town, where he had been slain by a drunken solder of the Scythian legion. [10]
- That night at sunset, Dicky, once more clothed and shaven and well appointed, but bronzed and weatherbeaten, was shown into the presence of the Khedive, whose face showed neither pleasure nor displeasure. [11]
- Come again after sunset, but you must expect to hear no pleasant tale. [10]
- It was about sunset, and she and Fay had finished supper and were sitting in the court, when Venters's quick steps rang on the stones. [13]
- Dust shrouded the sunset red of shaking rims; dust shrouded Tull as he fell on his knees with uplifted arms. [13]
- Two hours after sunset of this day the fire in front of Tinoir's home was lighted, and was not put out, and Tinoir sat and watched it till it died away. [11]
- We had a sunset of a very fine sort. [5]
- Out of the sunset had come her father with a face twisted with misery, and as she ran to him, he had caught her by both shoulders, looked through her eyes to something far beyond, and hoarsely said: "She is gone--gone from us! [11]
- Octavianus had appointed sunset for the interview, and it still lacked several hours of the time. [10]
- I know every sunset and where it belongs just by its color. [5]
- To Venters both sunrise and sunset were unreal. [13]
- Then came the sugaring, the warm days and the freezing nights when the earth stirs in her sleep and the taps drip from red sunrise to red sunset. [9]
- The storm had suddenly ceased, and a glimmer of sunset light was breaking over the distant wastes of snow. [11]
- She thought of Stephen as he had stood that evening in the sunset, and this proposal seemed a degradation. [9]
- In the little southern parlor of the house you may have seen With the gambrel-roof, and the gable looking westward to the green, At the side toward the sunset, with the window on its right, Stood the London-made piano I am dreaming of to-night. [6]
- We were not sorry, towards sunset, to descend along the Elk River towards Cranberry Forge. [4]
- You've eaten nothing since sunset, two days ago. [11]
- Toward sunset another show; this is the drive around the sea-shore to Malabar Point, where Lord Sandhurst, the Governor of the Bombay Presidency, lives. [5]
- Red sunset haze shone through cracks where the wall had split. [13]
- Shortly after sunset she was welcomed to Frau Schurstab's house. [10]
- For an instant she turned and gazed at the sunset, and her eyes took on a strange mystical glow. [11]
- She sat where she could see the sunset. [11]
- In the morning she allowed herself a little sleep, but she was obliged at noon to dress for the assembly, which was to begin before sunset. [10]
- Before sunset we shall have reached the brazen gates of Babylon. [10]
- The invitations were sent out before sunset, and straightway the young folks of the village were thrown into a fever of preparation and pleasurable anticipation. [5]
- Just before sunset Seleukus, Korinna's father, came in to look upon his daughter once more. [10]
- I shall never see another sunset to begin with it this side of heaven. [5]
- Before sunset we saw the danger, since no help came. [11]
- The peasant, to save his fields from the stags and does which broke into them in herds at sunset, tried to keep them out by means of clappers and bad odours. [10]
- As M. Fille sat with his host at the table in the sunset light, Jean Jacques seemed quieter and steadier of body and mind than he had been for a long, long time. [11]
- The man turned round, and looked at David, then he jerked his head in a friendly sort of way and motioned towards the sunset. [11]
- There was no reason why King should not enjoy the chaff and merriment and the sunset light which touched the group, except that the one woman he cared to serve was enveloped in the attentions of Mr. Meigs. [4]
- There is a quality of refinement in their granite robustness; their desolate, bare heights and sky-scraping ridges are rosy in the dawn and violet at sunset, and their profound green gulfs are still mysterious. [4]
- His really startling points, however, were his remarks upon the colours of the mountains of Egypt and the sunset tints to be seen on the Red Sea and the Suez Canal. [11]
- Over the plaintive pink and golden glow of sunset was slowly being drawn a pervasive silver veil of moonlight. [11]
- Everybody who is patient and waits in the cold and inhospitable-looking valley of the Chamouny long enough, sees Mont Blanc; but every one does not see a sunset of the royal order. [4]
- We walked all over the building with the hermits afterward, and then sat on the lofty battlements and smoked while we enjoyed the cool air, the wild scenery and the sunset. [5]
- Outside we had our pipes for consolation, and the sunset beauty of the lake. [9]
- Half-hour after sunset one needed a spring overcoat; by 8 a winter one. [5]
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