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Evenfall

Evenfall \E"ven*fall`\, n. Beginning of evening. ``At the quiet evenfall.''
--Tennyson.

Wiktionary
evenfall

n. dusk, twilight

WordNet
evenfall

n. the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn: twilight, dusk, gloaming, nightfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle]

Wikipedia
Evenfall

Evenfall is the first short film in a series about a highly trained young woman embarking on her career as an international spy and discovering it takes more than good looks to keep things from falling into the wrong hands.

Usage examples of "evenfall".

The smile I had pinned to my face melted away the way the cityscape must have done at Evenfall, and I abruptly lost interest in anything except screaming.

In the quiet evenfall, In the garden by the turrets Of the old manorial hall.

SPIRIT OF THE PITIES I hear confused and simmering sounds without, Like those which thrill the hives at evenfall When swarming pends.

We could be back by evenfall, but not if we sit here all day counting flies.

It was getting on for what is called the quiet evenfall when I anchored at Totleigh Towers.

Directed by a dim, smoke-bleared sun glimpsed through the woodland canopy, the travelers walked on through the reddish-brown smog of the day, and at evenfall, when weariness threatened to sweep Tahquil from her feet, they climbed to shelter in a huge and ivied weather beech, pulling themselves up on vegetable cables to rest in a scoop at the junction of three great boughs.

By evenfall they had almost reached the top of Mallorstang Edge on the outer marches of Lallillir.

For at this moment something came shimmering through the laurels in the quiet evenfall, and I perceived that it was Angela.

Grant us wind to fill our sails, and your king could sit upon his Iron Throne by evenfall on the morrow.

Her lips and hands broke with blood blisters, her hair came out in clumps, and one evenfall she lacked the strength to mount her horse.

They saw the first house an hour shy of evenfall, a snug little thatch-roofed cottage surrounded by fields of wheat.

By evenfall her hands were raw and bleeding and her arms so sore they trembled when she lugged the pail back to the cellar.

Any man found on the streets after the last peal of the evenfall bell will be killed.

Yet by evenfall the city was still in turmoil, though Bronn reported that the fires were quenched and most of the roving mobs dispersed.

By evenfall, the lucent patches of aquamarine sky would deepen to cobalt and amethyst.