eventide

How to use eventide in a sentence

• On this sweet lawn the inmates and guests walked for sun and mellow air, and often played bowls at eventide.

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 | Various

• On the surface of the lake at eventide, there lay how sweet a sadness!

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845 | Various

• Thus was slipping away the eventide of the day that God, in his infinite condescension aeons ago, had hallowed and blessed.

  The Broken Sword | Dennison Worthington

• Sometimes he drives his flock home at eventide; sometimes he bivouacs sub jove frigido, under the cold heaven of night.

  The Desert World | Arthur Mangin

• All Florence turns out at eventide, but we avoid the slow crowds on the Lung' Arno, and take our way "up all manner of streets."

  George Eliot's Life, Vol. II (of 3) | George Eliot