duskily

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Peterson’s production — duskily lighted by Peter Maradudin on a quickly metamorphosing set by Myung Hee Cho and featuring a coordinated ensemble that grasps the feeling underlying the drama — has a discreet efficiency.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2019

The Cajun men in undershirts cluster around Duke as he moves across a duskily lit softball field, praising his courage.

From Time Magazine Archive

He found himself in a long and rather narrow room, with a high ceiling, duskily lighted by three wide windows that were thickly webbed and dusted, like ancestral bottles of fine crusty Port.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 by Various

The sight of these carcases burning in the sun, with buzzing myriads of flies scintillating duskily over their unshod hides, excited a pity that was almost as deep as his pity for slain human beings.

From "Contemptible", by "Casualty" by

Margaret said, and as she smiled, Michael for the first time saw her likeness to her brother; it had escaped him before, because Freddy was very fair and Margaret was duskily dark.

From There was a King in Egypt by Lorimer, Norma