duskily

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Peterson’s production — duskily lighted by Peter Maradudin on a quickly metamorphosing set by Myung Hee Cho and featuring a coordinated ensemble that grasps the feeling underlying the drama — has a discreet efficiency.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2019

The Cajun men in undershirts cluster around Duke as he moves across a duskily lit softball field, praising his courage.

From Time Magazine Archive

The mountains reveal themselves, duskily green upon the lower slopes, their sky-piercing summits crowned with snow caps which endure until the sun comes to his full strength in July.

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney

At last, in fifteen or twenty minutes—certainly less than half an hour—the mad pace was slowed as the destination hove duskily into sight.

From Frank Merriwell, Junior's, Golden Trail or, The Fugitive Professor by Standish, Burt L.

A cloud passed over the moon; and, with a choral lament, the funeral troop sailed duskily away, heard afar off, so still was the midnight solitude of the glen.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde