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“It was like dawn, and then dusk cascading over the Himalayas. First, the gradual brightening over snow and contour, then the shining, sparkling sun…

— Radhika Mukherjee

All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean…

— Kiran Desai

“The rock strata of the inner canyon changed from dark umbers and black shadows to immense bands of pastel yellow, white, green, and a…

— Aron Ralston

Of course, it’s true that sometimes the pink at sunrise somehow seems brighter than the pink at sunset, and that when you’re feeling down…

— Banana Yoshimoto

Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth…

— Charles Dickens

When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses…

— James Joyce

The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from…

— Charles Dickens

I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces…

— William Faulkner

In the evening, I walked alone down to the Lake by the side of Crow Park after sunset and saw the solemn coloring of…

— Thomas Gray

Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies to these huge hill masses, when the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Towards four o'clock the dew fell, and she smelled a gust of sweetness from the roses and a paleness showed in the sky to…

— Rumer Godden

“In the morning light the scene was beyond compare. The mountains and the hills were bathed in the soft light of the coming day,…

— John D. Whidden