At times, I glanced behind me, into the growing dusk of the great, silent room, with its aeon-carpet of sleeping dust....

Before Milligan's place a bonfire burned from the beginning of dusk to the coming of day; and until the time when that fire was quenched with buckets of water, it was a sign to all that the merriment was under way in the dance hall.

The falling of dusk on June the 3d found tired eyes aboard the Wolverine.

Only folks relate that you are to be seen at dusk with your arms round each other's waist, and that you go stargazing through the grass alongside the Yeuse.

Never one of these nighthawks will you see after linnet time, though the hurtle of their wings makes a pleasant sound across the dusk in their season.

All was quiet again, and my eyes searched the dusk for the sign of human life.

He looked back through the dusk at the Dildine roof.

We went into Cittadella, but found everything in complete darkness, most of the houses sandbagged, and all shops, cafés and inns closed at dusk by order of the military.

" I stared through the dusk into her animated face, scarcely comprehending.

The kingfisher darts along like an arrow; fern-owls, or goat-suckers, glance in the dusk over the tops of trees like a meteor; starlings, as it were, swim along, while missel-thrushes use a wild and desultory flight; swallows sweep over the surface of the ground and water, and distinguish themselves by rapid turns and quick evolutions; swifts dash round in circles; and the bank-martin moves with frequent vacillations, like a butterfly.

The persons who passed northward in the dusk from the city's tumult thrust their hands deep into their pockets and walked to a sharp measure.

Quickly!" snapped their leader, from the dusk behind the lantern.

But hour after hour within the stifling fortress the giant tossed and muttered at the swords of sunshine that pierced his semi-dusk through little spark-burnt hole or nail-tear, torturing sensitive eyes.

He thought there was something black in the black shadows of the treesa thing that stirred through the heavy dusk without sound.

Mother sat leaning her head upon her hand, the outline of her face dim in the dusk against the falling curtain.

It is the dusk before dawn; APOLLO, radiant in the darkness, looks at the Castle.

A fine French road runs from Moulay Idriss to Meknez, and we flew on through the dusk between wooded hills and open stretches on which the fires of nomad camps put orange splashes in the darkness.

We made our way in the dusk down the long path, to the rude little dorf of Elsbach.

Clare listened devoutly, her eyes burning on him through the dusk like the stars deepening above the garden; and when she got up to go in he followed her with a new sense of reassurance.

He sat down in the dusk opposite me, and I thought his eyes glinted with malignant pleasure as he said, abruptly: "So, young man, you think you are a fit husband for my girl?" I stammered some inanity about making up in affection what I lacked in merit; about my expectations, family and the like.

A short row in the dusk out upon the stream, and we stepped aboard Gadabout.

Through the dusk beyond the rain was slithering.

And then he went out to wander in the dusk beneath the trees in the garden.

Already it was growing dusk below them, and the dense foliage of the interlocked branches of the trees seemed to offer an insuperable barrier to a successful landing.

We parted at last as good friends, his head now enveloped in the cowl, his sandals pattering off in the dusk toward the little cell that awaited him in the hospice, while I sought a place by the fire in the inn of Berchtesgaden.