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Sunset   /sˈənsˌɛt/   Listen
Sunset

noun
1.
The time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon.  Synonym: sundown.
2.
Atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily disappearance of the sun.
3.
The daily event of the sun sinking below the horizon.
adjective
1.
Of a declining industry or technology.
2.
Providing for termination.





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"Sunset" Quotes from Famous Books



... sunset they rode into Beni-Mora in advance of the camp, which they had passed upon their way. To the right were the trees of Count Anteoni's garden. Domini felt them, but she did not look towards them. Nor did Androvsky. They kept their eyes fixed upon the distance of the white road. Only when they ...
— The Garden Of Allah • Robert Hichens
... nodding her head, "A song of the rippling Spring that is gone— A song that's different from songs that are dead— Different as sunset is from the dawn. Sparkling with happiness, heavy with dew, Trilling and thrilling, all the way through; Fill it with heaven's own laughing blue— Write it!" she said. So I wrote ...
— With the Colors - Songs of the American Service • Everard Jack Appleton
... dies hard up here in the mountains, but at last twilight held the world, a clear, starlit twilight. Overhead the vault of heaven was hung with deep blue velvet, pricked out with a million diamonds. Up the slope the camp-fire glowed ruddily. In the west the smouldering sunset embers had cooled to ashes of dove-gray and steel, against which Sierra Blanca crouched, a grim, black giant. Wade had reached the observation platform at the end of the sleeping-car. With a tired sigh he turned toward the slope and the beckoning fire. ...
— The Lilac Girl • Ralph Henry Barbour
... foot of country for many miles around Centerville. They had roamed over Oak Ridge and the Sunset Mountains, camped on Wildcat Island, situated in Camelot Lake, and scoured the ...
— The Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point - or The Golden Cup Mystery • Quincy Allen
... is sadder Than the dream that cheated the grasp, The flower that turned to the adder, The fruit that changed to the asp, When the dayspring in darkness closes, As the sunset fades from the hills, With the fragrance of perished roses, And the music ...
— Vera Nevill - Poor Wisdom's Chance • Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron


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