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Definition of Dusks
1. dusk [v] - See also: dusk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dusks
Literary usage of Dusks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... That run to the radiant marginal sand-beach within The wide sea-marshes of
Glynn;— Beautiful glooms, soft dusks in the noonday fire,— Wildwood privacies ..."
2. An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
"... Beautiful glooms, soft dusks in the noonday fire, — Wildwood privacies, closets
of lone desire, Chamber from chamber parted with wavering arras of ..."
3. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... Of the heavenly woods and glades, That run to the radiant marginal sand-beach
within io The wide sea-marshes of Glynn; — Beautiful glooms, soft dusks in ..."
4. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... soft dusks in the noonday fire, — Wildwood privacies, closets of lone desire,
Cells for the passionate pleasure of prayer to the soul that grieves, ..."