The whole expanse Suddenly in the
half-light of the dusk Glimmered and waned.
On the fourteenth day I went into the kitchen, and I was surprised to find that the fronds of the red weed had grown right across the hole in the wall, turning the
half-light of the place into a crimson-coloured obscurity.
That was, in brief, the chief sensation I received from that face in the dim
half-light in which I saw it.
She felt her eyes opening wider and wider, her fingers and toes twitching nervously, something within oppressing her breathing, while all shapes and sounds seemed in the uncertain
half-light to strike her with unaccustomed vividness.
In the
half-light he looked about at the stalls and boxes and smiled a little consciously, recalling with amusement Sir Harry's judicial frown.
`The moon was setting, and the dying moonlight and the first pallor of dawn were mingled in a ghastly
half-light. The bushes were inky black, the ground a sombre grey, the sky colourless and cheerless.
The Nautilus did not remain motionless, but skirted the coast, advancing ten miles more to the south in the
half-light left by the sun as it skirted the edge of the horizon.
"Here I come, expecting to find a good sensible girl who had seen at last the vanity of all those things;
half-light in the rooms; surrounded by the works of her favourite poets, and all that sort of thing.
A moment later the tawny figure of Sheeta slunk out into the
half-light of the beach.
At this moment a soft
half-light pervaded the studio; but a parting ray of the evening sunlight suddenly illuminated the spot where the soldier sat, so that his noble, blanched face, his black hair, and his clothes were bathed in its glow.
The floor was of tesselated marble, smooth as glass, and from the walls strange shapes loomed out, woven into huge portieres in rich, harmonious colors, or gleaming from paintings, wonderful and mysterious-looking in the
half-light, purple and red and golden, like sunset glimmers in a shadowy forest.
At the sight of that long beam, in the
half-light which the infrequent torches of the brigands spread over the Place, thus borne by that crowd of men who dashed it at a run against the church, one would have thought that he beheld a monstrous beast with a thousand feet attacking with lowered head the giant of stone.