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  • She passed round the shrubbery, unlatched the garden door, and skimmed with her keen eyes the whole twilighted space that the four walls enclosed and sheltered: they were not there.

    A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

  • They always walked down the twilighted streets together, and it seemed to Marcia there was a sweet solemnity about that walk.

    Marcia Schuyler Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

  • They crept through the trees where it twilighted and where the sun played so prettily with little golden arrows in the leafage; from there they came into the high pine-wood.

    The Path of Life Stijn [pseud.] Streuvels 1920

  • Living in the twilighted dimness of the decades of slavery, few, if any, could prognosticate the future as to the social, political and religious outcome of the unique and peculiar system of American slavery that then prevailed in "the union of States."

    Progressive Missions in the South and Addresses; With Illustrations and Sketches of Missionary Workers and Ministers and Bishops' Wives Sara J. Duncan 1906

  • We seem to sit at his feet, feel his throbbing heart, hear his thrilling voice, while the halo of his countenance fills the whole human hemisphere in the twilighted splendors of a majesty that comes from beyond the stars of God.

    Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898

  • Ysolde then hastens to the open door, and gazes anxiously out into the twilighted forest, frantically waving her veil to hasten the coming of her lover, and runs to meet and embrace him when at last he appears.

    Stories of the Wagner Opera 1894

  • Quiet fell upon all the world -- in the twilighted room, in the tenement, in the falling night without, where no breeze moved.

    The Mother Norman Duncan 1893

  • With his downward course the tower of the church rose into the evening sky in a manner of inquiry as to why he had come; and no living person in the twilighted town seemed to notice him, still less to expect him.

    Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891

  • With his downward course the tower of the church rose into the evening sky in a manner of inquiry as to why he had come; and no living person in the twilighted town seemed to notice him, still less to expect him.

    Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884

  • This street and the water-front were lighted -- twilighted -- with lard-oil lamps; the rest of the place was dark.

    Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884

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