afterlight

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

My conduct, as well as yours, when we look at it calmly in an afterlight, was quite extraordinary.

From Castle Craneycrow by McCutcheon, George Barr