66 adjectives to describe sunsets

I visit them for their calm seclusion, their pure air, their natural cheerfulness, their transcendent beauty, their brilliant mornings, their glorious sunsets, their quiet and repose.

On the right hand was that city, growing ever clearer, with noble towers rising up to the sky, and battlements and lofty roofs, and behind a yellow clearness, as of a golden sunset.

They came to the little town in time to see the gorgeous sunset from this, the highest point of the Rockies, and especially to Myrtle, who had traveled so little, was the sight impressive and awe inspiring.

And when the wreaths of white, woolly clouds begin to glow round their furthermost edges like coals of fire on a frosty night, with all the promise of a brilliant sunset, this stretch of hill and plain wears an aspect which, once seen, you will never forget.

A rosy sunset tempted her to the end of the platform, and there she found, what nearly all foreign railway stations possess, a charming little garden.

I never saw a more beautiful scene, or a more magnificent sunset; but alas!

But then she saw that it was a red light like a stormy sunset, with masses of clouds in the sky, and a low sun very fiery and dazzling, which no doubt to a hasty glance must have looked, with its dark shadows and high lurid lights, like the fires of the bottomless pit.

The green mountain rose between us and the fading sunset, and the yellow moon was hanging in the east, as we took our dinner at the tent-door.

It may, however, be mentioned, that the fine description of a calm sunset, with which the third canto of The Corsair opens, has always reminded me of the evening before his departure from Athens, owing to the circumstance of my having, in the course of the day, visited the spot which probably suggested the scene described.

I saw nothing but peaceful, glorious sights; spaces of clear blue sky; stretches of quiet lawns; lovely valleys threaded by the gentlest of streams; azure lakes, unruffled by a breath; calms far out on mid-ocean, and Alpine peaks bathed in the flush of an autumnal sunset.

The red light of a cloudy winter sunset lay behind her.

Does that purple sunset over Kensington Gardens remind him of Glaramara and Saddleback?

She rose from the piano, went to the window and looked out at the smoky sunset.

There was a splendid sunset, but we were too sick and cold to enjoy it.

The sun was at the rim of hills between us and the open sea, and the sky was aflame in a gorgeous tropical sunset.

It was a saddened faceit might always be a saddened facebut a certain pleasant, rested look had worked its way about her mouth, not unlike the rich mellowness of a rainy sunset.

"Speaking of light," said the Professor, turning to me, "why cannot you bring, by your unknown chemical ways, some real sunlight into our rooms, in preference to this metallic gas-light?" I turned to the windows, before which the servant had just drawn the heavy, curtains still closer, to shut out the gleams of a glowing sunset which had ventured to penetrate between its folds.

" Evening was closing in with a greenish-yellow sunset, and a big full moon pushing up to whiten the sky above it.

Forlorn sunset.

There is going to be a grand sunset, and we should get a fine view of it up there."

" In the mellow sunset the three women followed the orderly across the fields strewed with armaments, supplies, and the rough depot paraphernalia of an army at rest.

He lived on for fifteen years, shorn of his strength and interest in life; and his closing hours were like the dull sunset of a November day.

Well, well!" She said something about needing the air; the mill was hot; she should soon be back; she spoke tenderly and she spoke truly, but she went out into the windy sunset with her little trouble, and forgot him.

That sky which was black and sinister has all the gorgeous golds and reds and purples of a benevolent sunset.

It seemed as if the surly old tree and the gracious sunset had some secret between them, which, as often as they met, broke out in ruddy flame.

66 adjectives to describe  sunsets