90 examples of gloaming in sentences

The all-together of that scene upon the mountains, "between the gloaming and the mirk," made an impression upon me which I shall not easily forget.

At e'en, in the gloaming, nae swankies are roaming 'Bout stacks wi' the lasses at bogle to play; But ilk ane sits eerie, lamenting her dearie The Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away.

Then one evening, while Lenore strolled in the gloaming, Kathleen came running to burst out with the announcement of their father's arrival.

One evening, in the mournful gloaming of one of the last days of September, the couch on which Marianne lay dying of silent grief was, by her desire, rolled to the window.

Here and there a marble figure was half revealed, and looked so spectral in the gloaming that they felt as if they were entering the world of spirits.

N. evening, eve; decline of day, fall of day, close of day; candlelight, candlelighting^; eventide, nightfall, curfew, dusk, twilight, eleventh hour; sunset, sundown; going down of the sun, cock-shut, dewy eve, gloaming, bedtime.

"I hope they won't git the critter: he ain't nothin' but a cussid nuisance, no how," said Jerry, as Hal disappeared in the gloaming.

At gloaming we again mounted the time-worn outside stair leading to the chamber whose casement bore the ominous red cross.

At gloaming, when we returned, it was to find them busy with half-yards of the long crusty loaves, plates of jelly, and tumblers, filled with milk on our Boy's part, and with well diluted wine on that of his fellow sufferer.

When the old battered hat and flour-covered coat loomed up in the gloaming and confronted her, she stared with terror.

"With three hundred men I landed in the gloaming at thy shore Dost thou hear their axes clanking on their shields without thy door?

THE WANDERER Wandering minstrel at my gate, Shivering in the winter gloaming, How appalling seems your fate, Destined to be always roaming, Singing for a bit of bread

The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white.

The three of them sat there in the gloaming.

It was now abute the gloaming when my ain same Janet (heav'n sain her saul) was sitting sae bieldy in a bit neuk ayant the ingle, while the winsome weans gathering around their minnie were listing till some auld spae wife's tale o' ghaists and worriecows; when on a sudden some ane tirled at the door pin.

Dost milk them in the gloaming, when none is nigh to see? CORYDON.

Returning in the gloaming from my traps, one day, I heard at a distance a wailing cry like that of a woman in distress, to which I replied by hallooing at the top of my voice.

As I came through the side door someone touched my shoulder, and there was Edie in the gloaming.

It was gloaming when he set off, waving his hat to those who had come to the door with him.

She simply led him into the Circle and took his Order, and allowed him to sit there in the Gloaming and observe how Popular she was.

At the close of a stormy day we sighted Basel from the top of a hill, and soon the lights, one by one, began to twinkle cosily through the gloaming.

It was in the dim gloaming when she could easily slip along by the hedges without attracting attention.

And in the gloaming we two also shall see the beckoning finger from beyond the bolted door and turn our feet homeward, passing the bourne of the new life hand in handand undismayed.

Again, a girl would take a clue of worsted, go to a lime kiln in the gloaming, and throw the clew into the kiln in the devil's name, while she held fast the other end of the thread.

Who is this man that is coming, stepping toward me in the gloaming? I am not long left in doubt.

90 examples of  gloaming  in sentences