Word Finder - twilight

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The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.

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I could just make out her face in the twilight.

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The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.

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It was twilight by the time I got back home.

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The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.

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Any faint light through which something is seen; an in-between or fading condition.

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The twilight of one's life

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To illuminate faintly.

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Pertaining to or resembling twilight; faintly illuminated; obscure.

They were sitting in the twilight by a window in the drawing room.

The sense of being in the Twilight Zone returned.

In the twilight and the night the rabbits came regularly and made a hearty meal.

When did she step into the Twilight Zone?

The stage pulled into Bradley in a cloud of twilight dust.

Practically this is when twilight is first ended in the evening, and about to begin in the morning.

Sometimes in the twilight I alternately lost and recovered sight of one sitting motionless under my window.

As they left the tavern in the twilight of the dawn, Rostov and Ilyin both glanced under the wet and glistening leather hood of the doctor's cart, from under the apron of which his feet were sticking out, and in the middle of which his wife's nightcap was visible and her sleepy breathing audible.

But the few observations made show that, after ordinary twilight has ended in the evening, the northern base of the zodiacal light extends more and more toward the north as the hours pass until, towards midnight, it merges into the light of the sky described by the two observers mentioned.

In the northern United States, in May, " legions of these delicate minute flies fill the air at twilight, hovering over wheat-fields and shrubbery.

The team set about getting their runners ashore in the gathering twilight.

Neither fully public nor fully private the urinal occupied a twilight zone in the wider urban landscape.

He was in his late sixties and in the twilight of life.

His Bedroom The twilight zone does n't have a look in.

For humans, fish appear as alien creatures living in a weightless twilight world.

So far only is it possible to speak with certainty, but it is permissible to take a few steps into the twilight of dawning knowledge and indicate the chief subdivisions which are likely to be established in the great crust-hollow and the great crust-heap. The boundary between these should obviously be the mean surface of the sphere.

Athena has been variously described as the pure aether, the storm-cloud, the dawn, the twilight; but there is little evidence that she was regarded as representing any of the physical powers of nature, and it is better to endeavour to form an idea of her character and attributes from a consideration of her cultepithets and ritual.

With him the twilight period which succeeds to the apostolic age is over, and we enter upon the main course of ecclesiastical history.

In the twilight it moves about cautiously and as noiselessly as a rat, to which, indeed, at this time it bears some outward resemblance.

The effect of the light falling upon them is to produce along the midrib of each a number of short white streaks of light, which contrast most strongly with the shadows cast by the leaves themselves, and with the general twilight gloom of the forest.

In 1892 he published another volume of verse, including The Countess Kathleen (a romantic drama), which gave the book its title, and in 1893 The Celtic Twilight, a volume of essays and sketches in prose.

Moreover, a simple libation of water should be offered to the Fathers twice daily at the morning and evening devotion called sandhya (" twilight").

In May and June the sun shines from eighteen to twenty hours and diffused twilight fills the rest of the day.

The best part for me was dressing up as a local Indian village girl and playing coy with Aamir at twilight.

In the tropics, where the ecliptic is nearly perpendicular to the horizon, it may be seen after the end of twilight on every clear evening, and before ' Schlegel, Ur.

A lot of bullshit posted by wannabe vampires and Twilight fans.

In the late summer twilight, their target resembled only a shifting, jerking pile of black rags.

To these nations the classical writers had ascribed a traditional importance, the glamour of which still lighted their names, albeit revealing them in the vague twilight of tradition rather than in the clear light of history.

It is therefore of interest to test this inference by observations at midnight in such a latitude that the distance of the sun below the horizon is no more than necessary to preclude the possibility of twilight.

I will not insult your intelligence by indulging in a tuneless rendition of the theme from The Twilight Zone.

Sloterdijk equates our position, two and a half millennia after Plato, with a gigantic twilight of the gods.

The Twilight of Atheism Atheism is one of the most important movements in modern Western culture.

Twilight revision sessions for ' A ' level students will take place during May.

A dozen images of Kagami now stood looking down at him, pale against the bloody twilight sky.

And welcome to the twilight shift of today 's conference - which has once again been given to me !

We'll be here for you with a selection of thoughtful, informative articles, from the moment you pick out your first kitten, during your pet's prime and right on through those twilight years.

For a deep blue that is brighter than the grays in Newburyport Blue, look for Twilight Blue.

Out of a Coma, Into a Twilight Accident victim Robert Wendland is " minimally conscious.

Caroline snuggled against Gordon's shoulder and gradually grew drowsy in the twilight.

Three shops down, and my decision not to pre-order Twilight Princess suddenly looked a little foolhardy.

Kuma start off the twilight roaring with his low grunts.

The summer term began with two twilight inset sessions for the whole staff team.

The Twilight Kingdom attempts the latter approach, with Shindler using the confined environment of Koth's subterranean lair to hide hidden horror within.

Webb's next solo LP, Twilight Of The Renegades will be released prior to these two exclusive London shows.

The long curved lake in the valley bottom seems otherworldly in the twilight.

The scene modes you can choose from are twilight, Twilight portrait, Soft Snap, Landscape and Beach.

From what has been said it might be concluded that Mercury is difficult to locate in the daytime or twilight sky.

As the story takes place in Sweden at the time of the midnight sun, there is a continuing twilight.

Our weekday twilight program is designed for children who wish to follow an examination syllabus.

He saw a dim twilight above this and ascended out of the blackness into a street of moving Ways again.