duskiness

Then a volley broke forth, flashing redly from the dim duskiness of the slope.

The dim duskiness made him shudder; he expected to see the Huckleberry Street Irish woman looking at him.

He knew, without looking closer, that there was a flare of mirth hidden within its velvet duskiness.

She had eyes of the Creole duskiness, a delicate olive skin, with a pastel coloring.

It initiates you into the duskiness, the blackness, the crowdedness, the intensely commercial character of London.