half-lights

We shall never know who fashioned the word for the interval of darkness which divides the two half-lights.

A History of Night Sean 2009

He knew that if his policy of compromise were to bear fruit, he must concealit, or show it, at most, in half-lights.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

He knew that if his policy of compromise were to bear fruit, he must concealit, or show it, at most, in half-lights.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

He knew that if his policy of compromise were to bear fruit, he must concealit, or show it, at most, in half-lights.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

He knew that if his policy of compromise were to bear fruit, he must concealit, or show it, at most, in half-lights.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

He knew that if his policy of compromise were to bear fruit, he must concealit, or show it, at most, in half-lights.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

There are so many half-lights and cross-lights, so much of the colour of mythology, and of the manner of sophistry adhering — rhetoric and poetry, the playful and the serious, are so subtly intermingled in it, and vestiges of old philosophy so curiously blend with germs of future knowledge, that agreement among interpreters is not to be expected.

The Symposium 2006

Even where the trees were largest the sunshine penetrated, subdued by the foliage to exquisite greenish-golden tints, filling the wide lower spaces with tender half-lights, and faint blue-and-gray shadows.

Green Mansions 2004

Dimmer effects of winter, mist, or evening half-lights are also sought; in each case with a definite tonality approximating one observable in the everyday world.

IMPRESSIONISM IN ART THOMAS MUNRO 1968

Cecil suspected that this woman was trained in discriminations and half-lights to which she and her generation had joyfully made themselves blind.

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Various