Quotes About Nightfall

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

What was it he sensed beneath the charm of Adelaide's wide ordered streets, grand Georgian and Victorian buildings and symmetrical leafy green squares? It is variously known as the Garden City, the City of Churches, the Athens of the South, the jewel in the national crown of arts and sciences. A city, above all, cultured and civilised. But when Salman Rushdie watched night fall in Adelaide, it was not a soft velvet cloak of harmony that he saw descend on this city.

complete with driving winds and a sky nearly black enough to turn the twilight of the city and surrounding countryside into full night.

the haunts of certain nocturnal birds which during the day remain in their caves but at night come out to feed.… At nightfall these birds come out from their caves with such an outcry and varying clamor that one cannot help being afraid until one realizes the reason.

Finally, as the stars began to prick the lavender sky in the east

Some lights cast more than one shadow. Stand before nightfall and you'll see for yourself. The flames shift and dance, never still. The shadows grow tall and short, and every man casts a dozen. Some are fainter than others, that's all. Well, men cast shadows across the future, as well. One shadow or many." - Stannis

should start back," Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them. "The wildlings are dead." "Do the dead frighten

The west is broken into bars Of orange, gold, and gray, Gone is the sun, come are the stars, And night infolds the day.

Twilight and evening bell And after that the dark.

I sat back and enjoyed nightfall on the desert and waited for poorchild Angel Dean to wake up again.

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the woodThis Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, shouldHave gathered them and will do never again.

Do not go near those people. Stay in your room. I will sleep through the day. You rest, and I will come for you in the evening." "Very ambitious of you.

When nightfall weaves its way through the New York Public Library, it is nothing shy of magic. Long stretched of sunlight on marble morph from white to yellow to pink to orange to red, the dim slowly, completely. Shadows yawn and stretch awake. Eighty-five miles of books on shelves blink away their daytime sleep, for book are often nocturnal creatures, ready to play. To roam. To hunt.

included, amidst a snowfall of more than a foot in a city with only a few snowplows available. By nightfall, the city of

venturing now or after nightfall. Cora thought better

Day ends The sun is waning Sailing out across the sea Night falls The shadows come But I've another sun in me.

Night had fallen, and the first stars had winked their way into existence, twinkling against a palette of inky purples, deep reds, and one last slice of pearly, light-infused blue.

The bright day is done and we are for the dark.

Night Comes to the Cumberland.

Arms they had none, nor scarcely any who knew the use of them: but desperate resolution, when every hope is at stake, supplies, for a while, the want of arms. Near where the Prince de Lambesc was drawn up, were large piles of stones collected for building the new bridge, and with these the people attacked the cavalry. A party of the French guards, upon hearing the firing, rushed from their quarters and joined the people; and the night coming on, the cavalry retreated.

Now had the season returned when the nights grow colder and longer, And the retreating sun the sign of the Scorpion enters...

It gets late early out there.

Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

It's nearly full dark. We should go." "We? I thought you were going to leave me alone." "I lied," Jace said without a shred of embarrassment.