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

The mountains reveal themselves, duskily green upon the lower slopes, their sky-piercing summits crowned with snow caps which endure until the sun comes to his full strength in July.

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney

The valley and the sentinel peaks that stood guard over it, the lowlands duskily green and full of balsamy odors from the forest, was still a goodly place to be.

From The Hidden Places by Sinclair, Bertrand W.

A great carved doorway opened upon a square second hall or lobby, through which the ray of the single candle glanced duskily, and touched the massive banisters of a broad staircase.

From The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan