Sunset

Examples

• Before sunset he had cut six acres of wheat, and convinced his audience that his machine was a great improvement over the old method. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Towards sunset that evening I stood again on the well-remembered terrace, and looked once more at the peaceful old country house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• They know nothing of sunrise or sunset, for they only see those marvels through a smoky veil. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• We had one fine sunset--a rich carmine flush that suffused the western sky and cast a ruddy glow far over the sea. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Now, I looked on the evening star, as softly and calmly it hung pendulous in the orange hues of sunset. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• They had kept her hull-up until sunset, firing several shots after her, but the next morning she was nowhere to be seen. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• In a word, his real time of relief being that evening at sunset, his mate came lounging in, within a quarter of an hour. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The enemy was sent in full retreat on their right, and their left followed before sunset. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I never let go her hand once, said the stout lady afterwards, until after sunset, when the firing was over. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• If the storm had lulled a little at sunset, it made up now for lost time. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The beauties of the sunset had not faded from the long light films of cloud that lay at peace in the horizon. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It was then calm, radiant sunset. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The day had clouded over, and a drizzling rain set in at sunset. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The sun was low, and the heavens glowed with the splendor of an autumn sunset. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The sunset was near at hand. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We scorned to consider sunsets. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Such walks on deck, such sunsets, such splendid air and waves! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• They even have fine sunsets on the Mediterranean--a thing that is certainly rare in most quarters of the globe. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But what were sunsets to us, with the wild excitement upon us of approaching the most renowned of cities! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Fine sunsets seem to be rare in this part of the world--or at least, striking ones. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is now one of those intensely golden sunsets which kindles the whole horizon into one blaze of glory, and makes the water another sky. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Typed by Angelo