The day was thickening into dusk then; it is ripening into sunset glory to-day.
The south shore lay vague and gray, and growing darker, against the falling afternoon, while the Lammermuirs stood up in paler dusk in the background, and the sun blazed behind them.
He walked to the window, where the curtains had not been drawn, and saw in the dusk a cab at the door.
The April dusk began to gather and the unsociability of her behaviour, especially if she were still rumbling round the Park, became absurd.
He quitted the box as to go to the restored exile, and I may add that as soon as he had done so Florence Tressilian bounded over to the duskin which Biddy had nestled.
O’er which thedusk still hangs with starlit wings.
They talks a lot o’ foreign parts, Them as has seen them do, But give me Malvern Hills at dusk All green or purple-blue!
The heavy hanging air ofdusk Was thick with scent of fainting musk, And through the tired willow trees Stirred never sound or breath of breeze.
And sitting there in the dusk of even Tony poured into his companion's ears the story of that terrible scene in Giant Gorge, and of Dan's brave deed.
She stood on the little bridge now, in the quiet dusk of even, leaning against the railing and looking pensively down into the shallow water below.
Let thy west wind sleep on The lake; speak silence with thy glimmering eyes, And wash the dusk with silver.
They used at dusk to retire near or into the mosques, where they passed the night on the mat, if there was any, or else on the bare pavement; and sometimes rested in the public places appointed for the use of travellers.
The butterflies and moths of the dusk having a long proboscis, succumb to this really enchanting lure, which, with the large store of honey, insures quantities of eager suitors.
No bird sings half so airy, No bird of dusk or dawn, Thou masking King of Faery!
DUSK IN THE WOODS Three miles of trees it is: and I Came through the woods that waited, dumb, For the cool summer dusk to come; And lingered there to watch the sky Up which the gradual splendor clomb.
A dream, to lead my spirit on With sounds of faery shawms and flutes, And all mysterious attributes Of skies of dusk and skies of dawn: To lead me, like the wandering brooks, Past all the knowledge of the books.
Who rides through the dusk and dew, With a pair of horns, As thin as thorns, And face a bubble-blue?
He was a poet who in his works became one with the poetry of life, the sounds of the forest, the kiss of the wind, the rustling of the reeds and the voice of the dusk of evening.
In the dusk of his last years it often struggled upward with tears, as a symbol of sorrow over his broken life.
Anstice arrive with Hassan, it is quite possible that in the dusk they thought it was one of us who had made a futile sortie with the Arab.
And the face which floated before his eyes in the starlit spring dusk was the laughing, grey-eyed face of Iris Wayne.
Dead, Striving before the irresistible will Through the strange dusk of this, the Debatable land Between their place and ours.
The job occupied till lunch-time, and then a jury-mast was fixed to the southern supporting mast, and by dusk the aerial hung in position.
Both Wild and I went with the whale-boat on its last trip at dusk on the evening of December 23.
As there was a light obscuring fog and dusk was approaching, the 'Aurora' "hung up" for the night.
They marched along the beach under cover of the low sand cliffs, and by dusk had crossed the mouth of the wadi and held some of the high ground to the north in face of determined opposition.
After dusk on December 20 there was a big movement behind our lines.
In five hours small parties had worked along the ridge for about half its length, fighting every yard, and it was not until the approach of dusk that we once more got control of the whole ridge.
At dusk the attack on Tahta, which had been under shell-fire all day, was beaten off and the enemy was compelled to withdraw one mile.
The deepening dusk was hardly noticed, because the running bursts of flame and light kept the dusk at bay.
She came out into Palace Yard and drove home through the dusk just as the lamps in the shop-windows were beginning to bring some gleams of cheerfulness into the black February streets.
So when Leon came in one evening at dusk and said, "There's another 'Even So' coming down the Little Hill!
It was almost dusk when father came through the kitchen loaded with bundles and found Candace and the girls still cooking.
My knowledge of the path to be pursued was extremely vague, for our arrival had been in the dusk of the evening, so that any observation of the shore lines had been quite casual.
I stared through the dusk into her animated face, scarcely comprehending.
Even in the growing dusk I could mark a red flush mount into the clear cheeks at this insistent question, and for an instant her eyes wavered.
It was already quite dusk when we finally drew in beside Travers' wharf, and made fast.
He listened a long time, wholly surrendering himself as his character was, and then strolled homewards in the dusk as the air grew chilly.
The dusk deepened, the twilight faded and darkness fell, still she sobbed on, murmuring constantly the name of the one man on earth she loved.
It was dusk before I left Stratfield Mortimer, but as I changed at Reading to enter the train for Paddington, I caught a glimpse of a face I thought I knew.
She had evidently waited in vain, and afterwards returned to the village when the dusk had deepened.
Then the mists rose, creeping slowly up the mountain sides, the dusk deepened, a chill wind blew in from the sea, and just as they closed the windows the door opened and the man announced dinner.
For nearly an hour we remained together chatting, until the sunset faded anddusk crept on.
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.
Dusk crept through the curtained windows, stole up the walls, swathing the room in heavy, somber folds until it became a dim cavern.
Then, alone once more, after her late dinner, or companioned by the man of the hour, it was here she would pace up and down in the sweet-scented dusk while myriads of fireflies like a flaming milky way disbanded at her approach.
The curve of her throat shone through the dusklike a white pillar.
But that a man in a serape should come into his master's room at duskwas a thing he could not tolerate, till the master himself came in, and satisfied his mind on the subject.
By dusk we reached the highest habitation in North America, the place where the sulphur used to be sublimed from the pumice brought down from the crater.
As day was dawning in the dusk of the morning, {He comes at Hrothgar's summons.
At dusk there was a loud jangling indoors and out, and Mrs. Betts summoned her young lady down stairs.
The dusk of its vaulted roof was not cool and sweet like the arching of green branches, but chill with damp odors of antiquity.
Just atdusk Mr. King sent him to the town near by to order some supplies from a hardware store.
It was almost dusk now, and the two friends stood just behind the barn, shaking hands goodbye.
White, who was still confined to the hut with his strained ankle, announced that they no longer had any oil upon Cabot's return atdusk from a day of fruitless hunting and outlook duty on the ice.
By the time the launch was lost to sight in the growing dusk the "Ruth" had also disappeared.
The cold, wet meadow, the thick mask of woods, and the oncoming dusk had stayed the chase--and the fox had outstayed it.
He went straight into his study--it wasdusk by now--and dropped into the first chair, and so to sleep.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dusk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
