afterlight

Example Sentences

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The deodars sank waist deep into filmy shadow, and the yellow afterlight lay silently among the branches.

From The Pool in the Desert by Duncan, Sara Jeannette

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

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

It was a very calm evening with a dim, golden afterlight irradiating the glen.

From Rilla of Ingleside by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Meadows of sunset afterlight were behind the westerning hills.

From Rilla of Ingleside by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

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 Morris, Elisabeth Woodbridge