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单词 crepuscular
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In the crepuscular light, he is connected again, bound to his father and, through him, to all the family back in Zundert. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
Colonel Korn was an untidy disdainful man with an oily skin and deep, hard lines running almost straight down from his nose between his crepuscular jowls and his square, clefted chin. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
And Daddy is smiling like he’s feeling the sun on his skin after a lifetime in a crepuscular cave. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z
Ben asked when they had broken out of Ravenel County and in a hauntingly crepuscular light were shooting across a causeway where the locks and sluices of an old rice plantation were still visible. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
Slow but steady drum kicks lurch over hissing, crackling whispers, and crepuscular synths bubble under the surface. Tirzah’s Genre-Less Pop Embraces the Beauty of Uncertainty 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z
They live their own crepuscular, eternal existence in the 21st century, having been born many centuries or millennia before. Cannes 2013: Only Lovers Left Alive – first look review 2013-05-24T21:49:58Z
And birdsong and crepuscular rays are best experienced in person. ‘Walden’ Review: Getting Away From It All 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z
“The consumption of human flesh just keeps it interesting,” Scott added, “and the crepuscular light — shot by the ghoulishly gifted cinematographer Frederick Elmes — gives it a bewitching, Halloween ambience.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Great Performances’ and ‘In the Heights’ 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z
When a musician rolls her suitcase down a polished corridor in a Buenos Aires hotel the effect is lonely and crepuscular. Review: ‘Around the World in 50 Concerts,’ a Documentary, Follows an Orchestra 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z
If, as Willem de Kooning once remarked, flesh was the reason oil paint was created, Benson in his many crepuscular photographs makes the case that twilight skies were the reason color film was invented. When a Master Printer Picks Up the Camera 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z
Saturated with the crepuscular wariness heard in most of Mr. Kancheli’s mature music, if fewer of his characteristic sharp dynamic outbursts, “Morning Prayers” attests to religious ache just a year before the Soviet Union ended. Music Review: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-09T21:19:17Z
Even if there are shadows of danger in the slow, crepuscular central section, the atmosphere is one of white nights in Leningrad, of brightness in the dark. Art, Music and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z
And throughout the show, people will grab handfuls of it, flinging it in wide arcs, as if to further besmirch the always crepuscular skies. A Fast and Furious ‘Macbeth’ at Park Avenue Armory 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z
Alexander Dodge's scenic design, dominated by the shadowy cathedral, turns the City of Light into a crepuscular realm of danger and intrigue. 'Hunchback of Notre Dame' at La Jolla has identity crisis 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z
They live and move “in the world of obituaries now, in the malicious crepuscular light of memorial services.” Margaret Drabble finds wit and humor where you’d least expect it 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z
The graininess of the footage shot in the underground world in Western Deep heightens the sense of crepuscular light. Steve McQueen's city of cinemas makes voyeurs of us all 2013-03-21T17:50:37Z
In this crepuscular, uncertain world, a cinema advertises a Russian film, The Radiant Future, while showing a subversive Polish film. Tadeusz Konwicki lays bare Poland's 'ruined-modern' past 2011-04-06T11:54:51Z
“The Bourgeois Gentleman” and “The Forced Marriage” each steer Molière toward crepuscular absurdity. Molière, Turning 400, Can Still Surprise 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z
This wasn’t her innovation but that of a medical profession that decreed that formula milk was the healthy choice, while feeding your newborn from a gland you already owned was crepuscular and mammalian. What a mother should be 2013-05-12T10:00:00Z
That is only one of the questions that hover in the humid, crepuscular air. Review: ‘The Beguiled,’ Sofia Coppola’s Civil War Cocoon 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z
The first is Vicious, which stars Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi as a pair of gay old queens sharing their lives and a crepuscular flat that looks like a relic from a 1970s sitcom set. Rewind TV: Vicious; The Job Lot; Dave Allen: God's Own Comedian; The Repo Man – review 2013-05-04T09:45:01Z
No, the real darkness is in Finnegans Wake, the crepuscular masterpiece. Darkness in literature: from the Bible to Joyce 2012-12-31T09:14:54Z
So I hope that you will step away from that crepuscular culture and follow the first light: the soon-to-be-obvious power of this promise and of its effect on the intelligence in front of us. Let me finish: how to stop interrupting… and change the world 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z
Any of these could be seen flying at midday in December but late-afternoon light will give a more suitably crepuscular feel to proceedings. Northern exposures: how to take a perfect winter wildlife photograph 2010-12-02T10:52:00Z
Alexander V. Nichols' video projections of night sky, fog and woods haunt Douglas W. Schmidt's crepuscular scenic design. Toil and trouble, and missed connections, in 'Macbeth' at Berkeley Repertory Theatre 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z
With a first cork popped and a deep slug from our glasses to fortify our spirits, he leads us into the winery’s crepuscular, lichen-festooned caves. Napa Valley: The Entrepreneur's Tour 2012-10-19T13:00:23Z
Jonathan Mumby's production, crepuscular, bare and a mite cramped, is leaden-footed to begin with, but gradually gathers speed to become something awkward but interesting. Anne Boleyn; Danton's Death; The Prince of Homburg 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z
We squint at the liquid-crystal screen, and in that crepuscular glow we glimpse our own planned obsolescence. Rudy Giuliani and the Butt-Dialler Within All of Us 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z
The picture, painted just before its subject died, is a rich catalog of tactile beauty — soft fur, crepuscular skin, crisp linen, silken hair, coarse embroidery. Martin Luther broke Europe in two, and Albrecht Dürer painted it back together 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z
That evening, sitting in a restaurant on Mostar’s western cliff, with the bridge aglow under the crepuscular sky and the call to prayer echoing around it, I was, well, enchanted. A Journey to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Where Sleeping Beauty Awakens 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z
But this is a decent refinement of that kind of crepuscular ambient music with soulful vocals. New band of the day: Lulu James (No 1,461) 2013-02-27T16:57:00Z
Ben Stanton’s lighting, flashy and subdued, bathes the stage in crepuscular tones. Review: In This Solo ‘Christmas Carol,’ the Night Is Never Silent 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z
That’s when sex can be at its most exciting but also it’s most troubling, leading you into a crepuscular world where your instincts are your only guide. My girlfriend wants me to spank her. Should I feel guilty? 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z
The Wooster Group's revival is just as hazy and crepuscular as a 40-year-old memory of relationships sealed and broken in a dingy hotel. Vieux Carr? 2010-08-24T20:30:00Z
Indeed, it is not a memoir, nor is it an absolute history, nor is it entirely a personal reflection or a crepuscular credo. His Life Was Too Boring for a Memoir. So He Wrote Ireland’s. 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z
Nature is conjured not only by the robust female nudes but also in geological strata showing iron-ore formation and, in one of the best small panels, as black chunks of disease destroying crepuscular living cells. Review: ‘Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit’ 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z
From his wheelchair Cunningham instructs members of his dance troupe in a cavernous rehearsal hall, and, at one point, falls asleep in the crepuscular light while they perform his choreography. Art Review: Altfest, Barlow, Dean, Djurberg and Liden at New Museum 2012-06-07T22:17:35Z
The combination of the color of the coat, the isolation of the girl and the crepuscular woods brings to mind Little Red Riding Hood, an association that settles in your mind like an unformed thought. ‘I Was at Home, but …’ Review: In Grief, What Dreams May Come 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z
Some were content to admire the design — a precise amalgam of set dressing, sound design and crepuscular lighting — and take scenes as they found them. ‘Sleep No More’ Awakens After a Long Hibernation 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z
Hugh Vanstone’s lighting is crepuscular, and it’s as if all those letters were waiting to leap from the shadows and assemble themselves. | 'Matilda': ?Matilda,? by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London 2012-01-31T11:00:00Z
Had they the budget, this band would probably perform under a cascade of intense strobing, on a stage set dressed like a crepuscular forest clearing. Esben and the Witch ? review 2011-02-07T18:23:23Z
The unnamed narrator in “Portrait of an Unknown Lady,” María Gainza’s crepuscular but dreamy novel, looks back over a life led in the shadow of imposture. Two Forgers and a Small Crocodile Walk Into a Sauna 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z
Even a khuru wouldn’t have seemed out of place, and the Jalq’as say that they may be seen when one is alone in a mountain mist, or in the crepuscular light of dusk or dawn. In the Mountains of Bolivia, Encounters With Magic 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z
Many of the crepuscular creatures are hit by cars each year as they scavenge roadkill from busy streets. White whiskers and wonky hips: A retirement home for Tasmanian devils 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z
The dreamy, crepuscular atmosphere is most acutely felt in the surprise ending. The Short List: Fantastical stories we love 2013-05-29T22:33:16Z
In the evening, I donned a white Venetian mask to roam through a labyrinth of crepuscular passages in an office building in the docklands of East London. London Theater Journal: Finding My Way in the Dark 2010-07-27T18:42:00Z
Mr. Alfredson’s visual style is moody, muted, crepuscular, and his rhythm is contemplative. Adapting John le Carr? Novels for the Movies 2011-09-18T00:03:03Z
This movie is operatic, crepuscular, portentous, a vision of apocalyptic catastrophe – and there are some great things in it. The Dark Knight Rises – review 2012-07-19T14:29:00Z
There is also a crepuscular LED display of Britain’s national power grid; watching the lights go out across the island gives a frisson of the Brexit-induced ruin to come. Mark Leckey Captures the Exuberance of Pre-‘Brexit’ Britain 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z
She seems in another world, with an unruffled, crepuscular park behind her. The Horse: From Arabia to Royal Ascot – review 2012-05-26T23:05:41Z
It combines the detailed passage with a grand sweep of crepuscular shade, the closely observed with the mysteriously vague. Manet's portraits: the artist on the knife-edge of photography 2013-01-12T09:01:01Z
With subtlety and finesse, Mr. Kigawa produced a haunting palette of crepuscular shades while providing a sensation of flowing continuity across the work’s full span. Music Review: Taka Kigawa, Playing Carter and Zorn at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-08-28T21:38:52Z
The ingénue is defined by her age — that crepuscular moment between adolescence and adulthood — and also by her innocence. Riff: Thelma, Louise and All the Pretty Women 2011-04-24T01:43:01Z
He bade them observe how consummately precious / The glow that suffused the crepuscular sky. Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America by Roy Morris Jnr – review 2013-02-15T14:01:01Z
The atmosphere is heavy with crepuscular dread, with sex and shame. New band of the day: Joel Compass (No 1,515) 2013-05-17T15:37:49Z
The lighting, uncredited, is crepuscular, outlining the strange forms that slither, shiver and creep in from the wings. Review: Mummenschanz Offers Wonder, and a Grumpy Trash Bag 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z
Even with all the surprises that have characterized Clint Eastwood’s twilight film years, with their crepuscular tales of good and evil, the tenderness of the love story in “J. Edgar” comes as a shock. | 'J. Edgar': ?J. Edgar,? Starring Leonardo DiCaprio - Review 2011-11-08T21:02:13Z
The B-side, White Leather, is more xx than Yeah Yeahs Yeahs, all crepuscular atmospherics and Rowsell at her most huskily mature. New band of the day (Wolf Alice No 1,510) 2013-05-10T16:41:22Z
The first, for bass flute and electronics, establishes a crepuscular atmosphere with spare, breathy gestures that grow more ragged, as if on the run. Review: At New York City Ballet, a Too Quiet Debut 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z
No. 4 might be the most beautiful, its bittersweet tune unfolding in Roe’s pearly runs with crepuscular harmonies. CD reviews: Two piano recordings worth attention 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z
Father-surrogate to Batman or not, Freeman's career, at the age of 75, is inevitably taking on certain crepuscular, autumnal hues. Morgan Freeman: Obama, Mandela, Batman and me 2012-07-12T19:00:01Z
He might be better off sampling, then treating and tweaking, Any Female Voice and removing all traces of "the human", because otherwise he's in danger of disturbing the unearthly quiet of his tranquil, crepuscular dubstep. New band of the day ? No 972: Koreless 2011-02-22T15:02:58Z
Its Grand Guignol flourishes were attention-grabbing, yes, but what knocked some of us out was Fincher’s visual style, with its crepuscular lighting, immaculate staging and tableaus. David Fincher, the Unhappiest Auteur 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z
Dim lighting bathes the room in a crepuscular glow. Critic?s Notebook: Does Fashion Make Good Theater? 2010-09-16T03:48:00Z
With the White House in a crepuscular background, its flag at half-staff, all forty-four U.S. Year of “The Forgotten Man” 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z
Horns enter and the song begins to feel like a futuristic take on the crepuscular, narcotic blues of Mingus’s “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat.” Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z
It's an interesting distinction, and granted there is a fine line between the two, with a similarly contemplative, crepuscular ambience conjured, but the rhythms are less twitchy, more regular than Blake's. New band of the day – Sohn (No 1,401) 2012-11-22T12:57:31Z
I say “seems” because I’ve never heard any pianist render each note evenly, creating the whispering, crepuscular sound that Schubert imagined, without any false accents. Yuja Wang, Leonidas Kavakos team up triumphantly at Strathmore 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z
The wolf ignites a crepuscular uncertainty about what’s fact and what’s fable, about how to differentiate between bared teeth and lolling tongue. Review | A hunt for the truth of wolves — and a quest for the wolf inside us 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z
As “Women Talking” opens, women assemble in the crepuscular shadows of the barn to decide what they will do: Nothing? Review | ‘Women Talking’: Political debate becomes declaration of independence 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z
For instance, ungulates, such as bison, and coyotes are generally crepuscular, or most active at dusk and dawn, whereas alligators are diurnal and nocturnal. How travelers can stay safe during encounters with wild animals 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z
His color palettes, which can range from brilliant orange and blue to crepuscular pinks and purples, seem to evoke land, sky and light in its myriad reflective and refractive states. In the 'cacophony' of the Americas, painter Eamon Ore-Giron finds elegant patterns 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z
Even the vagrant rays of sunlight that manage to peek through are shrouded in crepuscular gloom. Review | In joyless ‘The Batman,’ Robert Pattinson channels the vampire Edward Cullen 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z
A picket fence of “crepuscular rays” or light beams that shoot through gaps in the clouds and form shadows, generating alternating spokes of light and darkness. How Tuesday’s sunrise cast a fiery crown over Washington’s sky 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z
Heinicke used “crepuscular rays” — sunlight scattered by clouds, mountains or other objects — to roast conspiracy theorists who believe the Earth is flat. How Taylor Heinicke went from sleeping on his sister’s couch to Washington’s QB 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z
You see the shoreline, a distant cityscape and rock formations illuminated in the background; it almost looks like those are crepuscular rays coming in. Perspective | Weather can help us make sense of art. And it’s not just about painting pretty clouds.
Many owls are nocturnal and some are crepuscular, which means your best chances of seeing them are at times when you’d most likely be indoors, either sleeping or getting ready to. Opinion | The Art and Education of Owling 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z
With their moody, crepuscular vibe, they make perfect autumn listening. This fall, get your fill of Gothic fiction with these 6 audiobooks 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z
Whereas crepuscular rays headlined Tuesday’s sunrise, Monday’s sunrise presented more texture and variety as the sun’s rays intercepted a mix of cloud types — stratus, altostratus, stratocumulus and cirrus. How Tuesday’s sunrise cast a fiery crown over Washington’s sky 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z
During the 76-day lockdown, Wuhan’s residents seemed to live in a crepuscular world of neither night nor day, with time passing slowly, each day blurring into the next. AP PHOTOS: Wuhan a city in slumber before the lockdown’s end 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z
“Those are crepuscular rays,” Ruggles said as sun streaks broke through a puffy cloud, spotlighting a small glacier. Perspective | Glacier and me: Amid a stunning landscape, an ailing science journalist weighs his own uncertain life span 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z
Here are 10 books to shed some light into such crepuscular operations. Top 10 books about fake news 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z
Set across multiple levels of sloping hillside, the exhibition spaces range from the crepuscular to the light-flooded. Back to the art cave! Inside Switzerland's magical new gallery 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z
Such lamentations may seem to bring crepuscular hues to tech, but it’s more likely that they signal an approaching change. The Startup Whiz Trying to Make Big Business out of Social Philanthropy 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z
The word crepuscular comes from the Latin "crepusculum", which means "twilight" in English. Stunning sunsets light up the skies 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z
Imagine Washington of the late 19th century, a time when crepuscular night often turned corpuscular. Perspective | There will be blood: Some District neighborhoods once sported memorable names 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z
The eastern cottontail is largely crepuscular, preferring to feed in the evenings or early-morning hours. Here Comes Eastern Cottontail 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z
In that crepuscular hour Khawaja drove airily away from his body and sliced a catch to James Vince in the gully, but Smith remained unperturbed. Australia dig in but England’s Craig Overton nabs Steve Smith 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z
At the moment, awaiting removal to its new home, the sculpture sits in a crepuscular old depot near Piccadilly station. Phil Collins: why I took a Soviet statue of Engels across Europe to Manchester 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z
A remarkable sunset could be seen in parts of the UK as crepuscular rays shone across the sky on Monday evening. Stunning sunsets light up the skies 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z
Cats are also crepuscular, meaning they are most active at dawn and dusk. Here’s What Your Cat’s Tail is Trying to Tell You
Those five words had also been echoing around the Capitol — a gothic, crepuscular masterpiece where fresh air can be tough to find and where small details can suddenly blow up into big, deal-snagging problems. Cuomo Tries to Broker Budget Deal, With the Senate Out of Town 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z
It’s aromatically savory, with a granular weave that seems thick and crepuscular, like a slurry of minerals: Weird for a white wine but compelling all the same. Make 2017 your best wine year ever 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z
The crepuscular fabric of cities has featured in many fictional narratives, but it is an essential part of our lived experience too. 'When streets become supernatural': the joy of walking in cities at night 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z
Even their mode of creation — of plant matter decaying into crepuscular peat — seems to connote darkness and hostility to life. Letter of Recommendation: Bogs 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z
But move outside of that growing community, the impression remains that poetry - in general terms - is difficult, almost deliberately obtuse and obscure, frequently dull, and willfully uses words such as "crepuscular" or "obsidian". 'How I accidentally became a poet through Twitter' - BBC News 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z
The effect is to create a crepuscular fog of anxiety and confusion, with fearsome, indistinct threats lurking at the edges—a pervasive mood that Putin deliberately fuels. It's All In There, In Putin's Language: You Just Have To Listen Harder 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z
Out of fog Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco in fog and crepuscular rays. Should Microsoft Move From Redmond To San Francisco? 2014-02-10T13:14:00Z
Like Ocean, Tesfaye has earned a fanbase by releasing music online for free – songs built around a fogged, crepuscular production to set off the keening perfection of his voice. The Weeknd: Sounds and sensibility 2012-11-08T20:00:04Z
And I am not forgetting the real spook houses for grown-ups, where we the audience wander through crepuscular rooms and look upon grisly sights. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Screams, Silent and Otherwise 2012-10-18T18:39:39Z
By the aid of this crepuscular light you may perceive afar off, like a grain of dust floating upon quicksilver, a little brown speck trembling in the network work of luminous ripples. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z
But a mild spell of weather in mid-winter will sometimes entice a few to take wing while it lasts, although they never appear in any numbers until crepuscular and nocturnal insects are plentiful. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z
This is a plea for his own spiritualised art, in which sensations are attenuated, and emotions within emotions, the shadow of the primal emotions, are spun into crepuscular shapes. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z
It is strictly crepuscular or nocturnal, never voluntarily taking wing by daylight. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z
A steady supply of swatted flies — now including crepuscular mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles — keeps my ant colony busy. Picnic with ants 2012-02-15T18:21:27.470Z
Its crepuscular corridors and frowning front give me the shivers. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z
Said the thing was crepuscular, and needed dusk for its full effect. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z
My impression is that musculus is diurnal to crepuscular. Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys 2011-12-15T03:00:11.933Z
From its behaviour on the ground, also in flying, when it appears dazed with the light, I have no doubt that it is altogether nocturnal or crepuscular in its habits. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z
Or is it to be traced to their horror of the all-too brilliant light, to which their crepuscular, easily dazzled, bat-like souls are not accustomed, so that hate it they must? Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z
He might well have done so, for he knew, if Braddock did not, what a nimble, painted and befeathered Indian in the crepuscular shades of the primeval American forest was. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z
How ingeniously, and even beautifully, this crepuscular theory can be worked out, and made to explain all the activities of Hermes, may be read in an essay of Paul de St. Victor.*** Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z
Diurnal to crepuscular habits of this mouse may protect it from some of the nocturnal carnivorous mammals and raptorial birds. Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys 2011-12-15T03:00:11.933Z
Certain types of biting midges, including mosquitoes and sand flies, are crepuscular feeders, preferring dawn and dusk, while others prefer night, he said. Q & A: Flies in the Dark 2011-06-06T19:12:55Z
There is nothing crepuscular about Lever; you might as well expect to find a fairy in a railway station. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z
Despite being crepuscular and used to twilight conditions, the streaked tenrecs were unconcerned by the crew's lights as they foraged on the forest floor. Bizarre mammals call using quills 2011-02-11T09:31:25Z
Some species of foxes, however, are twilight prowlers, and one or two of the fennecs are also crepuscular. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z
Behavior.—The northern pygmy mouse is crepuscular to nocturnal and where I trapped in northern Mexico was one of the first small rodents to appear in my traps in the evening. Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys 2011-12-15T03:00:11.933Z
The stillness of the crepuscular hall seemed to palpitate with the woman's breath. Sinister Street, vol. 2
His slightly crepuscular eyes took on the sheen of mica; the color ran high in her face, and her lips parted. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole
Rabbits and hares are crepuscular and possibly more nocturnal than diurnal. A Synopsis of the North American Lagomorpha
Behind them stood a row of columns in a semicircle, sustaining the cupola through which filtered a crepuscular light which seemed to favor meditation and concentration of the mind. Sónnica
Presumably most of the crepuscular and early nocturnal raptorial birds and carnivorous mammals feed on these mice. Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys 2011-12-15T03:00:11.933Z
Meantime, some renewed evidence of actual crepuscular gleams on the moon had been gathered by MM. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
Even this crepuscular vault, however, fails, I think, to attain solemnity; for the whole place is strangely vulgar and garish. A Little Tour of France
They act less through a direct influence than by evoking, suggesting, whispering; they permit a glance, a passing glimpse: we may justly call them crepuscular or twilight ideas. Essay on the Creative Imagination
Here the vireos suddenly decided that they could escort us no farther, as they had no taste for crepuscular cañons and alpine heights. Birds of the Rockies
The wind blew, a chilling wind that whirled the snow in that crepuscular fog. Tartarin On The Alps
O thou blest Householder! the starry dawn, The light crepuscular, the roseate morn, Long since had melted into day! The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6
Standing in the crepuscular light of the corner, her marvellous beauty shone out with the vivid richness of some rare painting. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901
One might have said that they oozed with a monstrous slowness out from between the crepuscular tree-trunks and across the open space toward the brook. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
Some of the people went, and others came, with brief devoirs to Mrs. Maybough in the crepuscular corner where she sat. The Coast of Bohemia
Through the crepuscular light, bulks of things—big, black, formless—were dimly seen; but nearer the hoarding than the middle of the waste open ground was a spectacle that puzzled the looker-on. The Mark Of Cain
"Still—still," said Count Victor, "one hesitates to mention it to so excellent a custodian of the family reputation—still there are other things to me somewhat—somewhat crepuscular." Doom Castle
And this, in spite of the fact that he was close to her, touching her, tingling to her in the confined, crepuscular intimacy of the cubicle. Clayhanger
And Mr. Gunterson, when asked for remedies, could reply only in nebulous words of even more crepuscular and doubtful pertinence. White Ashes
The detail of the intervening space was lost in the first crepuscular softness, and they saw nothing but a stretch of darkening purple from which rose the scalloped crest painted in strange colors. The Emigrant Trail
The time was 4 A. M., and consequently was not due to any crepuscular light. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence
There is little need to dwell upon these crepuscular stirrings of popular Latin poetry in the earlier Middle Ages. Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse
After days of this crepuscular existence he emerged to find the cathedral less disfigured than he had feared. Leaves from a Field Note-Book
He darted glances in every direction, but the fall of distant waters smote upon his ears like the crepuscular music of Chopin. Visionaries
Outside the large single window the crepuscular light was dying out slowly in a great square gleam without colour, framed rigidly in the gathering shades of the room. Tales Of Hearsay
Possibly because they are crepuscular, harriers may be thought more rare than they are. The Way of the Wild
Night was slowly coming on, the vivid light from the window paled already, losing its sheen amidst the slowly-falling crepuscular dimness. His Masterpiece
They were quietists, and their imagery was crepuscular. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
There is indeed something infinitely charming in the crepuscular moments of the human mind. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
For the rabbit is usually a crepuscular animal, feeding soon after sunset or on moonlight nights. Darwinism (1889)
Hit on some trick crepuscular, Like smudge or smoke, and there you are! Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 5, 1892
It is true that the Fifth Corps, estimated at 30,000 men, had, at last, emerged from its crepuscular doings in Tuscany, and was available for future operations. The Liberation of Italy
Gleams of light peeped only from the gilding of the dome of the Invalides, like lamps burning in the daytime, sad and vague amidst the crepuscular veil of mourning in which the city was draped. A Love Episode
In this neighborhood there were multitudes of the big, gregarious, crepuscular or nocturnal spiders which I have before mentioned. Through the Brazilian Wilderness
Through the crepuscular whiteness the trees hung in blotted masses. The Reef
They inhabit the deep forests of Africa, Madagascar, and Southern Asia, and are more sluggish in their movements than true monkeys, most of them being of nocturnal and crepuscular habits. Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882
They awake as twilight begins, go about their business and enjoy a brief and crepuscular activity, and go to sleep as soon as darkness settles on the world. The Naturalist on the Thames
The public are sick of your crepuscular art, your harmonized neurasthenia, your contrapuntal pedantry. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House
With the chapadao we said good-by to the curious, gregarious, and crepuscular or nocturnal spiders which we found so abundant along the line of the telegraph wire. Through the Brazilian Wilderness
And chestnuts too! burred from the spring's long flowers; June's, when their tree-tops streamed delirious showers Of blossoming silver, cool, crepuscular, And like a nebulous radiance shone afar.— Poems
His eyes shone with quiet, greenish lights; from outside, the thin crepuscular light crept into the room through little crevices. Tales of the Wilderness
About their present habits, however, especially their crepuscular habits, there is yet much to learn. The Naturalist in La Plata
Christophe dropped like a thunderbolt into the midst of his dim crepuscular life. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House
His face, as far as I could see in the green-grey crepuscular atmosphere of the apartment, was expressionless. Prince Zaleski
The light which they possess is at best crepuscular, a kind of twilight, and they are under the necessity of groping about to catch, as they may, any stray gleams of the light of day. Select Speeches of Kossuth
But the rays died away immediately, leaving a blue crepuscular gloom, in which Kseniya Ippolytovna's figure grew dim, forlorn, and decrepit. Tales of the Wilderness
Automatically to a degree the girl obeyed, already in a phase of crepuscular hypnosis, her surface senses dulled by the potent "wine of China." Red Masquerade
Like many Frenchmen of that crepuscular epoch, he was dazzled by the distant rays of that glorious sun. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House
But the tree which has the greatest charm to northern eyes is the cold grey-green ilex, whose clear crepuscular shade drops against a Roman sun a veil impenetrable, yet not oppressive. Italian Hours
It is a weird, mysterious spot, like some crepuscular nook of paradise solely illumined by the gleaming stars of two tapers. The Fat and the Thin
The Christmas holidays were bright and frosty, with a red morning glow from the east, the daylight waxy in the sun, and with long blue, crepuscular evenings. Tales of the Wilderness
The whisper of his conviction seemed to open before me a vast and uncertain expanse, as of a crepuscular horizon on a plain at dawn—or was it, perchance, at the coming of the night? Lord Jim
The sunshine was blinding without, but sifted through the green jalousies, it made a gray, crepuscular light within. The Stillwater Tragedy
In the early hours of crepuscular sleep, will yet exists. The Physiology of Taste
Matthew Peel-Swynnerton might not go out into the crepuscular delights of Paris. The Old Wives' Tale
Twilight was falling on the gallery—a twilight which seemed to emanate not so much from the glass dome overhead as from the crepuscular depths into which the faces of the pictures were receding. The Descent of Man and Other Stories
Rather parochial, rather dun; grey-in-grey; subdued light above—crepuscular emotions on earth. South Wind
And as everything loves its symbol, so the German loves the clouds and all that is obscure, evolving, crepuscular, damp, and shrouded, it seems to him that everything uncertain, undeveloped, self-displacing, and growing is "deep". Beyond Good and Evil
So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively in the evening. Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom
She played softly, with a veiled touch, gliding from one crepuscular melody to another, till the room was filled with drifts of sound that seemed like the voice of its own shadows. The Valley of Decision
Iron stairways conducted the unfortunates to these stone cages, where the dim cold light filtered through the iron lattice-work of the upper part of the door, made a perpetual crepuscular atmosphere within. At the Mercy of Tiberius
Like a wounded bird, she withdrew herself from the light and noisy chatter of her friends, seeking only solitude and crepuscular nooks in which to suffer silently. Alice of Old Vincennes
Fainter, more crepuscular became the light, yet never losing its crystalline quality. The Metal Monster
Moreover, the latter bloom at a season when the crepuscular and nocturnal moths are most abundant. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors
Now "final darkness," as we usually understand it, refers to something having no resemblance whatever to the characteristics of the crepuscular zone. The Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, first graduate of color from the U. S. Military Academy
The very daylight seemed crepuscular; immeasurable clouds, passing slowly overhead, darkened the whole country at broad noon. An Iceland Fisherman
The cabin room was ill lighted; but the crepuscular dimness did not seem to hinder his sight. Alice of Old Vincennes
When my eyes unclosed the chamber of the moonstone walls was filled with a silvery, crepuscular light. The Metal Monster
Even this crepuscular vault, how- ever, fails, I think, to attain solemnity; for the whole place is strangely vulgar and garish. A Little Tour in France
She lay white, and as if suspended, in the crepuscular atmosphere of sunset mingling with the ashy gleam of the vast anchorage.  Within the Tides
Save for these gleamings the light of the place, although crepuscular, was crystalline clear. The Metal Monster
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