Example Sentences

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When the ascending currents are powerful, they create those appearances which astronomers designate the nuclei, the penumbrae, the faculae.

From The Story of the Herschels by Anonymous

From the top of the terrace he gazed upon this vague form standing up like a phantom in the penumbrae of the evening.

From Salammbo by Flaubert, Gustave

Her steps became feebler, and she strained her eyes to look afar upon the naked road, now indistinct amid the penumbrae of night.

From Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, Thomas