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Sentences starting with twilight

Twilight fell around Withersteen House, and dusk and night. [13]
Twilight ages of war and scourge and stress and storm--and faith. [9]
Twilight had gathered under the walls. [13]
Twilight had already shadowed the paths when she left the Dubois house, and on her way home she saw the Emperor approaching. [10]
Twilight was coming on. [9]
Twilight was coming on, the train was winding through the mountain passes, crossing and re-crossing a swift little stream whose banks were massed with alder; here and there, on the steep hillsides, blazed the goldenrod.... [9]
Twilight had already fallen in the gorge. [13]
Twilight had already begun to draw her sable mantle over the earth, and now and then the fiery smoke would ascend from the little town which lay spread out before him. [5]
Twilight was gathering as I joined the group, the sea was silvered by the light of an August moon floating serenely between swaying stays. [9]
Twilight closed in, and Straton pointed westward towards Alexandria. [10]

Sentences ending with twilight

As the troubles with the mother country thickened, she took to a foot-wheel, and often in the crisp autumn evenings I would hear the bumping of it as I walked to the house, and turn the knob to come upon her spinning by the twilight. [9]
Was it worth while living, only to grow older and older, and, coming, heavy with sleep, to the Homestead of the Ages, enter a door that only opened inwards, and be swallowed up in the twilight? [11]
There are many venerable pianos in Hamilton, and they all play at twilight. [5]
It passed, as passed the rolling clouds of smoke, and she saw the valley deepening into the shades of twilight. [13]
Had never got over her taste for riding, but could find nobody that liked a good long gallop since--well--she could n't help wishing she was alongside of him, the other day, when she saw him dashing by, just at twilight. [6]
Was the velarium on fire; had the machinery for lighting up refused to work; and must they remain in this uncomfortable twilight? [10]
He had pondered often on that which she had asked him when he had brought her home over the hills in the autumn twilight. [9]
The night bird of the canyon, with clear and melancholy notes announced the twilight. [13]
The tread reached my very door and paused--the light had dwindled to a sickly blue, and all things about me lay in a spectral twilight. [5]
It was the moment when the last ruddy rays of the sunset brightened momentarily before yielding to twilight. [13]

Short sentences using twilight

The twilight is long. [4]
Twilight was approaching. [5]

More example sentences with the word twilight in them

And so, many youthful poets have written as if their hearts were old before their time; their pensive morning twilight has been as cool and saddening as that of evening in more common lives. [6]
There would be yet a half-hour's sun and then a short twilight, and the river and the woods and the Rest of the Flax-beaters would be her own; and she could think of the wonderful thing come upon her. [11]
Stand where you would, or change your position as often as you pleased, you were always a centre from which radiated a dozen long archways and colonnades that lost themselves in distance and the sombre twilight of the place. [5]
I suppose you would bring some things out into daylight questioning that I had rather leave in that twilight of half-belief peopled with shadows--if they are only shadows--more sacred to me than many realities. [6]
Blame me if we wouldn't have run plumb by it if twilight had held on a little longer. [5]
Its mile-breadth of water seemed an ocean to them, in the shadowy twilight, and the vague riband of trees on the further shore, the verge of a continent which surely none but they had ever seen before. [5]
The twilight deepened, until you scarce could see your hands. [9]
The quick-coming winter twilight was already at hand. [5]
He came at twilight to take leave of her, and with genuine pleasure gave her the second seat in his travelling carriage. [10]
Often in the twilight she sat by him in this silent communion. [4]
Even in the twilight she recognized it at once, and when Katharina put her curly head forward, and said in a beseeching tone: "May I get through, and will you listen to me? [10]
There is a twilight ray, beyond question. [6]
In the deep twilight of that forest solitude four desperate rascals--Burgess, Sullivan, Levy, and Kelley--ambushed themselves beside the mountain-trail to murder and rob four travelers--Kempthorne, Mathieu, Dudley, and De Pontius, the latter a New Yorker. [5]
Eyes accustomed to twilight must also endure pain, she told herself, ere they became used to the brilliance of the sun. [10]
By the time, twilight falls, the cook has prepared supper. [4]
The young man turned hastily, noticed that he was in the room overlooking the court-yard, and said, eagerly: I was down below just before twilight, to look at my new quarters, and heard singing from this room, and such singing! [10]
In this hall, too, reigned the same gloomy twilight which had startled him in the vestibule. [10]
And it seemed to him that even the sun, which had been shining brilliantly a few minutes before in a cloudless sky, had disappeared behind clouds, for a strange twilight, unlike anything he had ever seen, surrounded him. [10]
The twilight deepened to dusk, to darkness. [9]
Love prefers twilight to daylight; and a man doesn't think much of, nor care much for, a woman outside of his household, unless he can couple the idea of love, past, present, or future, with her. [6]
As twilight began to approach, the anxiety of the deserted wife became unendurable. [10]
For the fiftieth time he had waited supper for you two in vain, and in the twilight, when he had done work, his grief overcame him, and to see him weep is quite heartbreaking! [10]
In this country there is no twilight, and with sunset came instantly the dusk. [11]
He withdrew into the twilight of the farther end of the barn, where he found the earthen floor bedded a foot deep with straw. [5]
Honora paused in the spring twilight to contemplate the house, which stood out incongruously from its sombre, brownstone brothers and sisters with noisy basement kitchens. [9]
Tom skimmed up the shore through the long twilight, chatting cheerily with Huck, and landed shortly after dark. [5]
The dusk of the gathering twilight concealed the picture, but he had doubtless gazed long at the lovely features, and still beheld them with his mental vision. [10]
The toils of the forenoon, the heats of midday, in the warm season, the slanting light of the descending sun, or the sobered translucency of twilight have subdued the vivacity of the early day. [6]
They had made the circle of the hills, and the sparkling lights of the city lay under them like blue diamond points in the twilight of the valley. [9]
His head-dress touched the ceiling, and the narrow streak of light, which fell through the opening in the roof, streamed on his handsome head and his breast, while all around him was veiled in twilight gloom. [10]
We took another swim in the Sea of Galilee at twilight yesterday, and another at sunrise this morning. [5]
So the long summer afternoon wore away into twilight, and the sun fell behind the blue ridges we were to cross. [9]
Then a fierce stretching of hands In gloom; and my feet, Treading tremulous over hard sands; A wind that wailed wearily slow, A plashing of waters below, A twilight on bleak lone lands, Spread out; and a sheet Of the moaning sea shallows aflow. [11]
There is no sound that troubles; the world goes by and no one heeds; for it is all beyond this musky twilight and this pleasant hour. [11]
Shortly afterward they slipped out of the house in the deepening twilight, and moved toward the river with their precious box. [5]
The young Achaemenidae sat cheerfully talking together in the twilight in a shady bower in the royal gardens, cool fountains plashing round them. [10]
In the twilight saddled horses could be seen, and Cossacks and hussars who had rigged up rough shelters in the glade and were kindling glowing fires in a hollow of the forest where the French could not see the smoke. [2]
Ledscha would have recognised it had the twilight been far deeper. [10]
And, when they reached the house in the October twilight, she had played them for him on this piano. [9]
No inhabitant of Ratisbon was informed of the return of their young fellow-citizen, and Barbara only went out of doors with her companion early in the morning or in the twilight, and always closely veiled. [10]
There they were, ranks on ranks, silent in stone, when the last of the long twilight illumined them; and there in the same impressive patience they waited the golden day. [4]
It was still raining, but the thunder-storm had passed as quickly as it rose, and twilight was already gathering over the mist-veiled houses and spires of the little city, from which the street ran to the ravine. [10]
Here, in the purple twilight of history, they offered men the choice of good and evil. [4]
Moving veils of purple twilight crept out of the hollows and, mustering and forming on the levels, soon merged and shaded into night. [13]
Within its twilight precincts I have often prayed for light, like Ajax, for the daylight found scanty entrance, and the gaslight never illuminated its dark recesses. [6]
The young colored population of New Orleans were much given to flirting, at twilight, on the banquettes of the back streets. [5]
In the twilight poor Muss betook himself to the Nile through the grove of Hathor, with his perilous burden. [10]
The moon peeped, pale and shrouded, out of a russet halo, and ghostly twilight reigned in the streets, still heated by the baked walls of the houses. [10]
The clouds spread over the valley, rolling swiftly and low, and twilight faded into a sweeping darkness. [13]
The twilight came on, the shadows fell deeper and deeper. [5]
As twilight drew on, the ferryboat went back to her accustomed business and the skiffs disappeared. [5]
As they walked on side by side in the twilight, a consciousness of repressed masculine force, of reserve power, which she had never before felt about Peter Erwin, invaded her; and she was seized with a strange uneasiness. [9]
The summer homes of these refugees are sprinkled, a mile apart, among the forest-clad hills, with access to each other by firm smooth country roads which are so embowered in dense foliage that it is always twilight in there, and comfortable. [5]
Tom being one of the best shots in Kentucky, he had won two beaver skins before the early autumn twilight fell. [9]
After the glare of light outside, which was almost blinding, the twilight within was for the moment a relief to Diodoros. [10]
Overhead was the Northern sky, so clear, so thrilling, and the stars were beginning to sparkle in the incredibly swift twilight which links daytime and nighttime in that Upper Land. [11]
For Iris had no mother to infold her, Nor ever leaned upon a sister's shoulder, Telling the twilight thoughts that Nature told her. [6]
When they rose night was spreading over the landscape, for the twilight is short in Thebes. [10]
I had pictured myself sitting at eve, with my family, in the shade of twilight, contemplating a garden hoed. [4]
It has made my adjectives sweat pretty hard, I know, to put together an answer returning thanks and not lying beyond the twilight of veracity, if one may use a figure. [6]
At twilight Hannibal Melas appeared, full of joyous excitement. [10]
When they left me twilight was gathering, but the happiness I had just enjoyed shone radiantly around me, and I lived over for the second time all the delights I had experienced. [10]
As twilight approached, Maria turned her steps towards home. [10]
If they cannot make themselves at home in a thoughtful, sympathetic mind, and diffuse through its twilight a cheering, domestic glow, it is their fault; they are not, in that case, so amiable, so benignant, not so real as they ought to be. [14]
How often her loved image appears before me when, in lonely twilight hours, I recall the past! [10]
There's no music like the bugle to stir the blood, in the still solemnity of the morning twilight, with the dim plain stretching away to nothing and the spectral mountains slumbering against the sky. [5]
Not neglecting to let it be known that Jethro had sent for him, Jake hurried off through the summer twilight to the tannery house, bowed ceremoniously to Cynthia under the butternut tree, and discovered Jethro behind the shed. [9]
But when at length, at twilight, he had risen to go, he had taken both her hands and looked down into her face with a very different expression than she had seen him wear before--a much more serious expression, which puzzled her. [9]
It was even larger than I had imagined it from the plans; in the Summer twilight there was an air about it,--if not precisely menacing, at least portentous, with its gaping windows and towering roof. [9]
Then, as everybody knows, there is that about twilight and an after-dinner cigar which leads to communication. [9]
Heinz had seen Katterle only by moonlight and in the twilight, so her unexpected appearance gave him no information. [10]
Now clear out, Jerry, your complexion has brought on the twilight half an hour ahead of time. [5]
The music of its twilight minstrels has long ceased, but their memory lingers like an echo in the name it bears. [6]
By this time it was three in the afternoon, and consequently it was not very long before night came--and not with a lingering twilight, but with a sudden shutting down like a cellar door, as is its habit in that country. [5]
By and by it became impossible to endure the intolerable glare and heat any longer; so we struck across the ravine and entered the deep cool twilight of the forest, to hunt for what the guide-book called the "old road. [5]
Revealed was the incredible brilliance of another day,--the arsenic-green of the spruce, the red and gold of the maples, the yellow of the alders bathing in the shallows, of the birches, whose white limbs could be seen gleaming in the twilight of the thickets. [9]
Darkness comes quickly in this land of brief twilight. [11]
The valley swam in thick, transparent haze, golden at dawn, warm and white at noon, purple in the twilight. [13]
The pale afterglow in the west darkened with the merging of twilight into night. [13]
And to Austen, in the twilight in front of Jabe Jenney's, the affair might well have assumed the proportions of an intimacy of long standing rather than that of the chance acquaintance of an hour. [9]
They were sitting in the twilight by a window in the drawing room. [2]
The brisk walk in the rosy twilight had heightened her color, and given her a glowing expression which her face had not the night before, and a tenderness and softness, an unworldliness, brought from the quiet hour in the church. [4]
The audience sat in the cool gloom of a deep twilight, which greatly enhanced the glowing splendors of the stage. [5]
She had ventured in not long ago at twilight, with her cough and her pale face, in a silk gown and flower-garden of a hat, and crept into one of the confessional boxes, and told him her story. [4]
Something I find in me that well might claim The love of beings in a sphere above This doubtful twilight world of right and wrong; Something that shows me of the self-same clay That creeps or swims or flies in humblest form. [6]
I'm the breadwinner; I'm the breadwinner; I'm the fighter; I'm the man that makes the machine go; but I don't like the twilight, and I don't like to wait until it's dark before I light up. [11]
When Honora and Howard drove up to the door in the deepening twilight, every window was a yellow, blazing square, and above the sound of voices rose a waltz from "Lady Emmeline" played with vigour on the piano. [9]
For one short hour the music went on, then twilight came. [11]
At five o'clock his stylish trap was sent around from the boarding stable, and we drove in the Park till twilight. [4]
Vividly she recalled his home-coming in the twilight, his coat torn and muddy, a bleeding cut on his forehead, and the colt quivering tame. [9]
We have glimpses, here and there and yonder, through the dim cathedral twilight, of portions of many galleries and balconies, wedged full with other people, the other portions of these galleries and balconies being cut off from sight by intervening pillars and architectural projections. [5]
The curtains of her windows and doors were only closed when the position of the sun absolutely required it; while in Nefert's rooms, from morning till evening, a dim twilight was maintained. [10]
When at last he drove away with Archibius, twilight was already gathering, torches were lighted in front of the temple and the little mausoleum adjoining the cella, and pitch-pans were blazing in the square. [10]
That was sufficient; he did not wait to scan them critically, but hurried on, and never abated his pace till he was far within the twilight depths of the wood. [5]
But as I have said, a day came when I began to cease from noting the glories and the charms which the moon and the sun and the twilight wrought upon the river's face; another day came when I ceased altogether to note them. [5]
Years after it happened to John to be at twilight at a railway station on the edge of the Ravenna marshes. [4]
I kissed my hand to them all, unseen as I stood in the outer darkness; and as I turned and went my way, the table and all around it faded into the realm of twilight shadows and of midnight dreams. [6]
Before they had had time to traverse the "Corridor" and reappear, twilight was come, and the power of the telescope was at an end. [5]
The morning twilight had dawned into day, and the sun had risen on the first of December of the year of our Lord 129, but was still veiled by milk-white mists which rose from the sea, and it was cold. [10]
Bathsheba's virgin perceptions had caught a faint early ray of its glimmering twilight. [6]

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