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afterlight

[af-ter-lahyt, ahf-] / ˈæf tərˌlaɪt, ˈɑf- /




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The sun had set some time since, but the landscape was still clear in the mellow afterlight.

From Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Beyond the bar the sea, calm and austere, dreamed in the afterlight.

From Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

But it was evening now and the valley beneath us was brimmed up with the glow of the afterlight.

From The Golden Road by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

There followed the wonderful afterlight that a short, drenching rain leaves behind it—a hush of light, deeply pervasive and friendly.

From More Jonathan Papers by Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris

Through an open corner on the western side I saw the sky all silvery blue in the afterlight.

From Further Chronicles of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery




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