crepuscular

• It was rather laughable to hear a cadet, who was expounding the theory of twilight, say, pointing to his figure on the blackboard: "If a spectator should cross this limit of the crepuscular zone he would enter into final darkness." —  Henry Ossian Flipper The Colored Cadet at West Point
• Now "final darkness," as we usually understand it, refers to something having no resemblance whatever to the characteristics of the crepuscular zone. —  Henry Ossian Flipper The Colored Cadet at West Point
• Crawl, then, to the next curve of the staircase, crawl in the shadow, silent and dark -- garbed, moving a centimetre at a time past the ornate archway, a thing unseen, a creature of the shades, crepuscular, a night -- crawler of harm to none, yet with the hairs lifted at the nape of its neck and its arms goosefleshed, its ears alert for the bang of the gun and the whine of the homing shot Crawl. —  Quiller Meridian
• Chosa, a devout Shintoist, had attended this ceremony every year since he had attained manhood, and more than once he had knelt, shaven head bowed, in the midst of these priests, praying to the gods of the shrine's sacred cam-phorwood trees from which it was built, the piercing white snow that lay atop its eaves, and the crepuscular moon that illuminated them all, with blood on his hands, the remnants of affairs of business or of honor. —  Floating City
• Boars are crepuscular, that is they forage from dusk until dawn and they are the only hoofed animals known to dig burrows. —  thinkSPAIN - The leading English Spanish website

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