The afterglow passes and charcoal fires are lighted at the edge of most of the native huts, in preparation for the evening meal, for the young shepherds have come from the fields and the flocks are safely penned.
The decline of the sun is quite rapid--very often the afterglow lights us to our destination.
The brilliant afterglow had now faded, dusk had fallen, and he feared that Liane, having kept the appointment, would have left disappointed and returned home.
The afterglow was like an exquisite spasm, is always like an exquisite spasm, a beautiful, almost desperate effort ending in the quiet darkness of defeat.
And the sunset waned, and the afterglow flamed and faded, and the clear, soft African night fell.
In parts the road was clear, in others, heavily shaded by tall firs, through the branches of which could be seen the Snowy Range bathed in the soft afterglow of a lurid sunset.
The sky was deep blue, with a still luminous afterglow along the black edge of the hill, and the white moon overhead, save for a couple of yellow stars, had the sky to herself.
She turned round abruptly from him and stood looking out across the parade at the shining sea over which the afterglow of day fled before the rising moon.
And that yellow-gray desert landscape with the flaming afterglow and purple mists.
Jerry murmured, as the afterglow of a prairie sunset flooded the sky with a splendor of rose and opal and amethyst.
The sun had set when they all came out upon the road, and the afterglow was purple on the snow of Etna.
He went towards the window, through which the afterglow of the sunset was still faintly visible, and then, as though changing his mind, he came back to the table and sat down, keeping his face from the lamp as much as possible.
And now comes one of those beautiful pictures, peculiar to St. Luke, as he lights up the Judæan hills with a soft afterglow, an afterglow which at the same time is the aurora of a new dawn.
His childhood, youth, and manhood were like the corresponding phases of other lives; and the Gospels certainly put no aureole about His head--that was the afterglow of traditional fancy.
He can see the red splendor of desert sunsets, and the unearthly glory of the afterglowon the battlements of desolate mountains.
Somehow the mere glow she had brought into the room with her, the afterglow of an experience he had no share in producing, had become painful to him; made him feel old.
In fact our main necessity was to get through the river jungle before the afterglow had faded from the sky, leaving us in pitch darkness.
I could see nothing but the wild toss of a hundred pair of horns silhouetted against such of the irregular saffron afterglow as had not been blocked off by the twigs and branches of the thicket.
The sun had gone down behind the woods, and only the afterglow still lay over the road, but on the smith's heavy hand the tiny figure stood as if it were alive, in the infinitely pure light.
The scent of the meadowsweet was blown to him across the bridge of years, and with it came the dream and the hope and the longing, and the afterglow red in the sky, and the marvel of the earth.
The curtain of golden dust reddened in the west; the afterglow lit up the sky once more with brilliant little clouds suspended from mid-zenith.
Hope had set in Beryl's sky, but a tender afterglow held off the coming night, when she thought of the face that had bent so yearningly above her, of the passionate voice and the thrilling touch that were now her most precious memories.
The afterglowis beautiful--that is what the elegy makes evident.
In this way he represents to us the afterglow of sunset which follows the day of storm and terror.
But don't let him think that this afterglow of composition is the same thing as the original passion.
His intellectual life began, we may say, while the somewhat obscure afterglow of the "Anthology" was in the western horizon of the New England sky.
As the afterglow died out at the end of one of the shortening September days, the bear family heard faintly from a far-away hillside a short bellowing "Oh-ah!
It was then that they found themselves wandering over the snow in the centre of a leafless forest, where the deep crimson afterglow gleamed westward among the black trunks of the trees, while the dead silence of winter was upon everything.
They lingered there until the mists began to rise and the red afterglow was fast disappearing; then they ran past the sulphur springs and on the broad highway back to the Eternal City at such a pace that his Excellency's breath was taken away.
Long after the sun had set and the afterglow had faded, we went back to the hotel and madame's hospitable attentions.
Our last look was a vision of a comely woman standing on the platform, a tall erect figure gazing after the train, the reflection of the afterglow lighting up her face to something beyond mere earthly beauty.
Four pictures of his are shown here: a little Italian child, painted with great love and sweetness, two street scenes in Cairo full of rich Oriental colouring, and a wonderful work called the Afterglow in Egypt.
Sunset had gone, and twilight was momentarily brightening to the afterglow when Anson, breaking his silence of the afternoon, ordered a halt.
Dale, striking a trail, turned his back to the fading afterglow and strode down the valley.
The afterglow flashed or changed, like a dimming northern light, and then failed.
As he started out upon the slope, a sudden flaring of the afterglow of sunset flooded down from Old Baldy, filling the valley with lights and shadows, yellow and blue, like the radiance of the sky.
