gloaming

• It was something else, standing here in the red gloaming--some foreign entity, cogently reasoning, swiftly acting. —  The Crucial Moment 1911
• Quietly and imperceptibly the shadows of night mantled the long twilight gloaming, and then one by one the stars came out from their hiding places, until the whole high dome of heaven was bright. —  Oowikapun How the Gospel Reached the Nelson River Indians
• The lovers that met on the commonty in the gloaming are gone, but there are other lovers to take their place, and still the commonty is here. —  A Window in Thrums
• The softness of the gloaming, and the freshness of the falling dew, and the scent of the honeysuckle in the hedge, and the smell of the cut corn in the fields--for harvest is earlier down there than with us--and the cattle chewing the cud, and the sheltering shadow of old beech trees, shed peace upon him and touched the young minister's imagination. —  Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers
• The rustling of a bush in the evening twilight startles them with the dread of some ghastly apparition; the sight of a pig in the gloaming is converted by their fears into the vision of a horrible spectre. —  The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia

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