1 When she became conscious of externals it was dusk.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 1 Tidings of the Comer 2 I saw a woman on Rainbarrow at dusk looking down towards my house.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 3 It will be better not to get there till after dusk, and then nobody will notice you.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day 4 When he came back by the same path it was dusk, and the dews were coating every green thing.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 6: 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward 5 The next evening Eustacia stood punctually at the fuelhouse door, waiting for the dusk which was to bring Charley with the trappings.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure 6 Had he approached without any covering the chances are that he would not have been perceived in the dusk; approaching thus, it was as though he burrowed underground.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 7 His custom was to work from four o'clock in the morning till noon; then, when the heat of the day was at its highest, to go home and sleep for an hour or two; afterwards coming out again and working till dusk at nine.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song 8 It was dusk, and she was sitting by the fire in the dining-room or hall, which they occupied at this time of the year in preference to the parlour, because of its large hearth, constructed for turf-fires, a fuel the captain was partial to in the winter season.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure 9 A bird searching for worms in the mould of the flower-beds sounded like her hand on the latch of the gate; and at dusk, when soft, strange ventriloquisms came from holes in the ground, hollow stalks, curled dead leaves, and other crannies wherein breezes, worms, and insects can work their will, he fancied that they were Eustacia, standing without and breathing wishes of reconciliation.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 6 Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter