"Evenfall" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the ancient wonders, of the wells of Death and Life, Of the voices of the Forest that quell both hate and strife; I dream of the ancient wonders, but greater than them all Is the luring laugh of Moira when day 's at evenfall. ...
— Sprays of Shamrock • Clinton Scollard
... blending with the dim sheen of the lamps, softened this pretty scene to picturesqueness. Altogether it was a strange and unexpected place. Much experienced as the nineteenth-century nomad may be in inns, he will rarely receive a more powerful and refreshing impression, entering one at evenfall, than here. ...
— New Italian sketches • John Addington Symonds
... in mortal guise, The potent witchery of their call, If dawn be regnant in the skies, Or evenfall. ...
— The Little Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse
... a good deal on the charity of people like the Macdonalds, and I used sometimes to catch sight of him at evenfall listening to Mrs. Macdonald; he would be sitting beside her hammock on the veranda, his head very much down on his breast, very much on one side, and his great hump portending over his little white face, and ruffling ...
— Romance • Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
... they piece and repiece the living wires. He rears against the gates they rend: they feed him hungry behind their fires. Early at dawn, ere men see clear, they stumble into his terrible stall, And hale him forth like a haltered steer, and goad and turn him till evenfall. ...
— The Years Between • Rudyard Kipling |
