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- noun Plural form of
twilight .
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Examples
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From the pleasant fields of sun-lit pagan doubt comes to our ears the piping of the undying Pan -- older than all the "twilights" of all the
Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917
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As skilful as the Vikings were as navigators, their ambitious voyages would have been beset by thick fog, cloudy skies and the prolonged twilights of the polar summer, which would have made direct observations of the sun and stars all but impossible.
Sunstones could have helped Vikings navigate from Norway to America 2011
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Thankfully, Didion writes about more than just grief and loss in her new memoir, and she does it in poetry: "In certain latitudes there comes a span of time approaching and following summer solstice, some weeks in all, when the twilights turn long and blue."
Joe Woodward: Joan Didion: Late in Life Joe Woodward 2012
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We do not speak of the turning of twilights either.
Joe Woodward: Joan Didion: Late in Life Joe Woodward 2012
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We do not speak of the turning of twilights either.
Joe Woodward: Joan Didion: Late in Life Joe Woodward 2012
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Softly throbbing, voice and strings arose on sensuous crests of song, died away to whisperings and caresses, drifted through love-dusks and twilights, or swelled again to love-cries barbarically imperious in which were woven plaintive calls and madnesses of invitation and promise.
CHAPTER III 2010
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And as black night wrapped around him, his head upon her breast, he felt a great peace steal about him, and he was aware of the hush of many twilights and the mystery of silence.
NEGORE, THE COWARD 2010
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HP is cool and all, but twilights where its at for me!
usatoday.com: TWILIGHT ECLIPSES HARRY POTTER | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009
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Especially he cursed the phonograph that in the cool twilights ground out gospel hymns from the deck of the Rattler.
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Thankfully, Didion writes about more than just grief and loss in her new memoir, and she does it in poetry: "In certain latitudes there comes a span of time approaching and following summer solstice, some weeks in all, when the twilights turn long and blue."
Joe Woodward: Joan Didion: Late in Life Joe Woodward 2012
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