All things Quote by John Milton

Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to…

— John Milton

They passed out of the shade beneath the eaves and flew into sunglare and silence and it was an action she only partly saw,…

— Don DeLillo

“The deepest shade of twilight did not send him from his favourite plane-tree. He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light…

— Ann Radcliffe

“When she had fallen asleep on me, and the saw in the yard was quiet, and a blackbird was singing as the colors of…

— Bernhard Schlink

“The dull gray days of the preceding winter and spring, so uneventless and monotonous, seemed more associated with what she cared for now above…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“And now, let us go out on the terrace where 'droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost,' while the evening star 'washes the dusk…

— Oscar Wilde

He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an apple-orchard lay, and there…

— Walter de La Mare

Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait, His day's hot task hath ended in the west: The owl, night's herald, shrieks-'tis very late; The…

— William Shakespeare

“There was a tiny silence, only the soft hum of the fluorescence. I thought of her in the cold ruined house, with night birds…

— Tana French The Likeness

It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like…

— William Faulkner

“The morning was one peculiar to that coast. Everything was mute and calm; everything gray. The sea, though undulated into long roods of swells,…

— Herman Melville

“The sky darkened, the liquid singing of the blackbirds diminished and ceased, mud hens swam back to shore, climbed up the banks and huddled…

— Leonard Gardner