Word: sundowners
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...frequently as not, the cattle owners would fail to sell their steers' at the market and would return about sundown with the whole contingent again. They would return about sundown with the whole contingent again.. They would held them through on to the Arlington road, only to eappear the next morning with undiminished vigor. The steers were a constant source of excitement, better than a big fire, if one of happened to enter a mercantile shop...
...That bridge,' said I, exasperated beyond endurance, 'at sundown or in the twilight can be the most beautiful and the most romantic thing in the world...
...like the peasants of Zitlieff, Mr. Mencken aims for truth through the application of ordeal. He would delight to see the noble folk at sundown, beating their suspects into unconsciousness before the bar of justice. This is not the ordeal, however. The ordeal is to recover consciousness. And nothing could be more systematically fitted to the American critic's haphazard dicta than the impartially unjust manner in which the natives pronounce judgment. He who comes to his senses during the night is innocent; he who awakes at dawn is guilty...
...eight evenings at sundown, beginning with the Sabbath eve, (Friday) almost every Jewish household assembled before an odd-shaped candelabra, a candleholder with nine sockets-eight in as straight array as a well drilled military squad, the ninth in the solitude of the leader, the pilot. Each evening the paterfamilias, as family priest, lit the pilot, handed it most carefully over to his youngest to light; on the first night of Channukah, one taper, on the second two, until on the eighth night the children blinked with dazzled delight before the nine bright, golden flame-tips that bobbed, nodded, winked...
...fishing in Pacific waters. Not that we know much about the pearl business, but the boys were going at it in a nice sort of way and were getting up lots of oysters. Nobody was opening them up just then, but everything pointed to a couple of necklaces by sundown, if the cysters crashed through all right...