DUSK in Classic Quotes

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