The short afternoon sped on, and sundown came, and the gray dusk, and then the stars came out.

The dusk was beginning to gather when I rode home, the heavy purple dusk of autumn, full of the crisp smell of dead leaves and the low hanging wood smoke from the chimneys.

It was his first thought that a warrior stood before him, but reason told him quickly no Indian was likely to be there, and, then, through the thick dusk and falling snow, he saw a huge black bear, erect on his hind legs, and looking at him with little red eyes.

I was in the act of turning on the electric light when this happened, but to my surprise the room remained in darknessor rather, in a pink dusk lent by the colour of the curtains.

In the luminous dusk my eyes searched for Aniela; but she looked at Clara, who at this moment seemed more a vision than a substantial being.

By now it had fallen pretty dusk, whereupon, spying two fishermen in a canoe at a little distance, Captain Morgan demanded of them in Spanish which vessel of those at anchor in the harbor was the vice-admiral, for that he had despatches for the captain thereof.

I was glad to have seen the Pomoyssin under circumstances so favourable, but it was with relief that I left it and began to climb the side of the gorge from this valley of dreadful shadows towards the pure sky that reddened as the brown dusk deepened below.

I raised my voice, and spoke loud and clear, while my eyes held his in that yellow dusk.

The reckless dusk.

The moon begins to appear in the east like a silver circle gleaming through the sky, and the avenue of poplars is wrapped in the uncertain dusk of twilight....

Someone stirred as the door opened, and out of the fetid dusk of the unventilated, closely-shuttered cabin came a voice: "Night shift on?" "No."

Then Harrie would row swiftly in, and spring into the low, broad buggy beside him, and they rode home together in the fragrant dusk.

That was the age of his last thrashing, and it was in the gloomy dusk of that momentous occasion, as he lay alone with smarting back in the twilight of an unusually early bed-time, that a possible new view of womanas a creature of like passions and privilegespresented itself to him.

The rest of the company crowded into the house amidships, and flung themselves down wearily in the grateful dusk, where vivid paintings and mysteries of rude carving writhed on the fir bulkheads.

One, two, three flights there were, so steep that you had to go slowly or tumble on your nose, and then down at the bottom of the third ran a long passage, where a greenish yellow dusk from some unseen lamp prevailed.

Not fifty yards from him they scrambled ashore and went lumbering into the hazy dusk.

Yet as they talked on, and the kindly dusk gathered about them, their speech and their hearts came very close together.

Dear, kind she is; and daily dearer, kinder, Love shuts the door on the lamp and our two selves: Not my stirring awakened the flame that behind her Lit up a face in the leathern dusk of the shelves.

It was dark before we left the cave, for there is little dusk with us, and the division between day and night sharper than in more northern parts.

Aye there they are, nor have they changed their cheer, The fields, the hut, the leafy mountain brows; Across the lonely dusk again I hear

Long before the first gloom of the early mid-winter dusk, all has been cleared away.

He dined in the well-known restaurant, wandered again in the mild dusk, then mounted to his room and worked a while at some of the sketches he was making for his new commission.

But in the moonlit dusk she gave her lips to his, and her tender arms were close about him.

It was dusk when we reached Boulogne last nightfrosty dusk, with the distant moan of a fog-horn, and under the mist hilly streets busy with soldiers and bright with lights.

The early Northern dusk was falling when Beresford dropped into the store again.