half-darkness

In the gray twilight and half-darkness Shorty had located their two claims on the horseshoe.

THE STAMPEDE TO SQUAW CREEK 2010

She pushed the door open, sucked in a breath as her eyes adjusted to the half-darkness.

Sparks Laura Bickle 2010

She pushed the door open, sucked in a breath as her eyes adjusted to the half-darkness.

Sparks Laura Bickle 2010

I sit on the edge of her bed in the half-darkness, tempting fate, fidgeting with a paperweight with bursts of red color inside, tossing it in the air.

The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010

For a moment, unable to choose, Alec stood rooted in the half-light, half-darkness between the living room and the corridor.

The Unpublished Writer and His Love Interest (The Painter) David Russo 2010

For the interior of that engine-house looked and sounded like the Inferno gone wild: the building reverberated to the incessant din of rifle fire, glass was shattering, timber splintering, men were screaming and cursing, and all in half-darkness, for there wasn't a light in the place bar the flashes from the guns, and only torch-glare outside.

THE NUMBERS 2010

She pushed the door open, sucked in a breath as her eyes adjusted to the half-darkness.

Sparks Laura Bickle 2010

Now they were all left in shadowy half-darkness, with curtains drawn, except for the dining room at the very end of the corridor.

Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

In the corner, on the gateleg table, the glass paperweight which he had bought on his last visit gleamed softly out of the half-darkness.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

In the corner, on the gateleg table, the glass paperweight which he had bought on his last visit gleamed softly out of the half-darkness.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008