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The Comte de Bonzag, on the ruined esplanade of his Château de Keragouil, frowned into the distant crepuscle of haystack and multiplied hedge, crumpling in his nervous hands two annoying slips of paper.

From Murder in Any Degree by Johnson, Owen

Appalled, the girl sprang from her chair and groped her way to the scuttle through a crepuscle resembling late twilight.

From Nobody by Jacobs, W. L.