half-gloom

The air was heavy with perfume as I stepped in, stumbled into a muslin curtain, swore softly as I disentangled myself, took hold of a wooden pillar for support, and gazed round into the half-gloom.

Fiancée 2010

When this Redoubt was first builded, it had been upon the far shore of a sea, where now was no sea; and it had been raised by those wandering humans who had grown weary of wandering, and weary of the danger of night attacks by the tribes of half-human monsters which began to inhabit the earth even so early as the days when the half-gloom was upon the world.

The Night Land 2007

And so shall you see us go, and the smoke and the bitterness of the sulphur to be all about us; and oddwhiles the murmuring of a far-off pit, and oft the utter silence; and to pass this time a lonesome fire-hole; and afterward the utter dark, or the half-gloom, all as might chance, according to the nearness of the fires.

The Night Land 2007

In the half-gloom he tried to remember where everything had been a decade before.

Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

In the half-gloom he tried to remember where everything had been a decade before.

Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

In the half-gloom he tried to remember where everything had been a decade before.

Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

In the half-gloom he tried to remember where everything had been a decade before.

Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

For half an hour, the girls would chatter and laugh, and then servants would pull in the shutters and in the warm half-gloom the talk would die to whispers and finally expire in silence broken only by soft regular breathing.

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

For half an hour, the girls would chatter and laugh, and then servants would pull in the shutters and in the warm half-gloom the talk would die to whispers and finally expire in silence broken only by soft regular breathing.

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

For half an hour, the girls would chatter and laugh, and then servants would pull in the shutters and in the warm half-gloom the talk would die to whispers and finally expire in silence broken only by soft regular breathing.

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996