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  • noun Plural form of gloaming.

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    November « 2009 « In The Gloaming Podcasts 2009

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  • The camels, with their heads down snatching plants and grass, moved uncomfortably for us cocked over the chute of their sloped necks; yet we must let them eat, since we were marching eighty miles a day, with halts to breathe only in the brief gloamings of dawn and sunset.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • Well! (may it count to me as gain!), rather than seem to offend him I lay down in that manger, though I had no more desire to sleep than has the flittermouse in our Sussex gloamings; also I was careful to offer no money, for that is brutality.

    The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911

  • The dense trees of the avenue rendered the road dark as a tunnel, though the open land on each side was still under a faint daylight, in other words, they passed down a midnight between two gloamings.

    The Mayor of Casterbridge 1887

  • Sometimes she did it yet when the spring gloamings were gathering fast, but no one knew this except Jock Forrest, the ploughman, who never told any more than he could help.

    The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

  • He was a gentleman at heart, not a cad like Tozer; and this boy was the son of a girl whose laugh he remembered in the gloamings at Tenshillingland.

    The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885

  • The dense trees of the avenue rendered the road dark as a tunnel, though the open land on each side was still under a faint daylight, in other words, they passed down a midnight between two gloamings.

    The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884

  • And there came many to Krarup Kro -- folk from the surrounding district, who gathered in the autumn gloamings, and sat in the inn parlour drinking coffee-punches, usually without any definite object; and also travellers and wayfarers, who tramped in, blue and weather-beaten, to get something hot to carry them on to the next inn.

    Norse Tales and Sketches Alexander Lange Kielland 1877

  • The day is drawing to a close, but there is one of those marvellous gloamings of the Great

    Winter Adventures of Three Boys Egerton R. Young 1874

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