They stood measuring each other in the dim light, till the Colonel's eyes fell on the loaded sled.

Down they went amid the gloom until they spied an open door below, beyond which a dim light shone, and whence rose the snoring of wearied sleepers.

The silence remained unbroken, save for the lightest rustling of the skins, until, in the dim light to which my eyes had been so long accustomed, I saw Jacob's head and shoulders inside the lodge.

On the morning of that day, in the dim light of the dawn, a solitary passer-by, going along the Rue Saint Honoré, saw, between two lines of horse-soldiers, three wagons wending their way, heavily loaded.

Every morning when she awoke, she saw him in the dim light of dawn and recalled bygone days and the smallest details of insignificant actions, without any sense of bitterness or grief.

It was a rectangle of dim light, but nothing showed in that frame.

The passages are almost innumerable, intersecting each other in every direction and ranging in some places many stories above each other, but still, as you pass along in the dim light of a little taper, it appears much like a subterranean stone-quarry containing pigeon-holes for the dead.

Ninon had followed him dreading some awful calamity, and there, in the dim light of the stars, she found her son weltering in his blood, shed by his own hand for love of her.

A few lanterns threw a dim light upon the scene, glistening here and there upon the polish of an accoutrement or a rifle-barrel.

The handsome room, rich with dark, subdued colour, in the dim light of four wax candles, two on the table, two on the mantelpiece.

Each end of the passage was capped by a penumbra of dim light, for although the sky was overcast, the open air was not so dark as the intensified gloom of the passage.

Her face, as he could see it in the dim light, was one of despair, and as sob after sob broke from her, tears ran down her cheeks.

" She hung, listening, with a backward swerve of figure, and regarding him in the dim light of the swinging hall-lamp, for the moment half-petrified.

So, in the dim light, I dressed myself in the chief priest's clothes, and repaired to his house.

A few steps more and they came to the end of the platform, where a buckboard was waiting in the dim light of one of the station lamps.

He was in the dim light a vision of the necromancer of medieval books.

It was the girl's room, and, although the shade was drawn, a dim light was burning behind.

When he awoke he saw by the dim light of the screened roof-lamp that he was not alone, and that on the opposite couch a native had actually made up a bed with sheets, blankets and pillow, undressed himself, put on pyjamas and gone to bed!

The girl trembled, and even in the dim light I could see the gleam of anger in her eyes.

The dim light of a couple of tallow candles flickered weirdly in the draught.

Then said he crisply, while the fire-glow of Leclair's strongly inhaled cigarette threw a dim light on the tense lines of his wounded face: "Come!

Then into the room shuffled old Cato, and began to extinguish the candles; and I saw the green curtain twitch, and everybody whispered "Ah-h!" General Schuyler arose in the dim light when the last candle was blown out.

When the two sighted the ruin they noticed a dim light within the walls.

Suddenly he lifted his free hand and brushed back the thick hair from her brow and turned her face until what dim light there still remained of the day glowed in the beauty of her eyes.

By the dim light he saw her hand catching at the balustrade as if she were drawing herself up, step by step.