What is "dimness"

Usage examples of "dimness".

Sir Arthur turned on the headlamps of the autocar, and the beams pierced the dimness, casting eerie shadows and picking out the twisted branches of trees.

Here, where all is falling into dimness and dissolution, and we walk in cedarn gloom, and the very air of heaven goes mouldering to the lungs, I cannot remain commonplace.

Brennan coud discern few details in the dimness of the night-light that burned above the bar, but the men all had hard, tough faces.

From the imposing entrance through a double avenue of cryptomeria, among courts, gates, temples, shrines, pagodas, colossal bells of bronze, and lanterns inlaid with gold, you pass through this final court bewildered by magnificence, through golden gates, into the dimness of a golden temple, and there is--simply a black lacquer table with a circular metal mirror upon it.

She blinked in the dimness, willing her eyes to adjust, and as they did, she saw him standing there, staring at her in dawning wonder.

The pupils were dilated, there were dimness of vision, confusion of thought, and extreme prostration.

The Kraut stood a moment at the entrance until his eyes became accustomed to the dimness.

Then they were inside again, but his eyes were misadjusted to the dimness.

Then he reached out in the dimness and gently took Zembac Pix, the pothecary, by the throat.

The Xindi reached the maintenance hatch and groped at the ceiling in the dimness, searching for the ratchet that surely was there.

He thought of his chief of finance and touchless lover, Jane Melman, masturbating quietly in the last row of the funeral chapel, in a dark blue dress with a cinched waist, during the whispery dimness of the vigil.

Among the crocheted doilies of missionary artisanship and hammered copper plates representing idealized tribal maidens or trumpeting elephants that were African bourgeois taste, there hung in the dimness Edward Lear watercolours of Italy and Stubbs sporting prints swollen with humidity and spotted as blighted leaves.

In the vision of the distances, where desert blent with sky, earth surely curving up to meet the downward curving heaven, the dimness was like a voice whispering strange petitions.

So I took the one-thirty train, and went wandering inland, and stopped at many unknown stations in the midst of great levels, and changed at Marishes Ambo, and went on again through a strange land in the dimness of the winter afternoon.

The dimness of the circular theater was alive with the moans and sighs of the occupants of the seriate chairs.