afterlight

Example Sentences

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Alppain had set, but the whole northern sky was plunged into the minor key by its afterlight.

From A Voyage to Arcturus by Lindsay, David

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)

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

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

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