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Suddenly he turns a corner, steps into the full of the strong wind coming out of the southward dusk, laden with the odors of vegetative must. A crabbed, sea-green foam of new leaves leaps about him, bursting through the brown screen of the late-winter town; the hedges burgeon strangely bright and noticeable about him, bristling with immaculate greenness. Through the ploughing wind he walks, feeling like a dog whose hair is blown back straight over his eyes, caressed and washed by the rapid air. Only now, through the deep blue dusk, a press of desire comes upon...
...severe injuries. A snake's tail may remain alive for several hours after it has been severed from the rest of the body. The idea that the severed part or tail dies after the sun goes down may be due to the fact that observation usually ceases at dusk and the part is found dead the next morning...
...Gothic Vaulting of the Vagabond's narrow cell grew dim in the dusk of the late afternoon. Outside the rain drizzled down, blanket upon blanket, showing the streets below a black ribbon in which closely wrapped figures hastened under the shuddering arcs to the bright shelter of heated chambers. Through the racing, crowding thunderheads above, there still broke a few dull rays of yellow light, which reflected eyrily from Memorial's gray and blood slates into the oaken garret. The Vagabond turned from the casement to the dark and empty chimney corner and lighted the lamp by his deep leathern...
...Japanese mouse is a tiny creature, one of the smallest of mammals. It is usually black-&-white spotted, with eyes that look black in daylight, ruby-colored at night when the fire-red pupils expand. It spends the hours from dusk to midnight dancing, sleeps till dawn. The impulse to dance may seize it any time during the day. Rest periods it passes sleeping, washing, sniffing, eating. Because of its exertions it has to eat & drink much oftener than an ordinary mouse. It is totally deaf...
...Good Show/' At dusk the files were still tramping by when the President broke off and returned to the White House to find a tea for thousands in progress on the main floor. Even some Republicans attended-Hoover Secretaries Hurley and Doak, "to pay respects," they explained. Avoiding the throng, President Roosevelt went up to the second-floor study where his whole Cabinet, confirmed a few hours before by the Senate, was assembled to be sworn in. Supreme Court Justice Cardozo, a New Yorker, administered oaths while the President sat at a desk and listened to the chorus...