There had not even been the usual brief twilight.

Night came on rapidly after a brief twilight, but the heat did not withdraw with the light.

The brief twilight of the pinelands was deepening into dusk.

For short minutes, the fire seemed to fight the brief twilight; then the last flames subsided.

The sun was going down and there would be a brief twilight.

He paused and strained his eyes into the lowering dusk of the brief twilight.

However this was a brief twilight in the campaign and, exhausted, the movement again went into decline for the next four decades.

The sudden, brief Egyptian twilight had come upon them while they were looking at the boat.

The sun sank, and a brief twilight quickly gave way to a star-pricked darkness.

The brief equatorial twilight would soon be followed by darkness.