But nowhere was there a sign of life, and would not be until semidarkness brought the unwilling workers back to the tents.

When they were quite near the place, the semidarkness had come, and Quade began to shout in his tremendous voice.

in the semidarkness of the lonely night-hours phantom voices had haunted him.

When his eyes grew used to the semidarkness he saw that the bed lay flat, that the door to the boudoir was shut, that the room was empty.

He was late and the palace was a very small palace indeed; it was with difficulty that he spied in the semidarkness an empty seat in a side section.