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1  Under the stilly boughs and the black gauze of dusk the street was meshed in silence.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
2  By dusk, the liquor warehouses, Hebraic clothing-shops, and lodging-houses on lower Hennepin Avenue were smoky, hideous, ill-tempered.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  When she dreamed of being a woman of the harem, with great white warm limbs, she awoke to shudder, defenseless in the dusk of her room.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  The moment it was dusk she pulled down the window-shades, all the shades flush with the sill, but beyond them she felt moist fleering eyes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  Out of the dusk her violin took up the organ theme, and the candle-light revealed her in a straight golden frock, her arm arched to the bow, her lips serious.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
6  Kennicott brought down a fat red squirrel and at dusk he had a dramatic shot at a flight of ducks whirling down from the upper air, skimming the lake, instantly vanishing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
7  Doors no longer moved; curtains were not creeping shadows but lovely dark masses in the dusk; and when Bea came home Carol was singing at the piano which she had not touched for many days.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
8  When she had for a blessed hour forgotten the searchlight, when she was scampering through a chill dusk, happy in yellow windows against gray night, her heart checked as she realized that a head covered with a shawl was thrust up over a snow-tipped bush to watch her.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX