Word: sunsetting
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...legendary Messianic line that is to fulfill the Old Testament prophecy of the second coming of the Son of God. In their midst he had died. They carried him over the long river bridge in sombre procession to a hill without the city, and buried him at sunset, simply, in white shroud and plainest wooden coffin...
...went forth-three one way, three the other. Three left New Jersey in the evening. They were at San Fran- cisco at sunset; in Honolulu in the afternoon; in Malabar (Java) in the morning; in London mist in the wee, small hours; back on Long Island in the evening. The other three left Massachusetts at the same time their fellows set out. They were in Paris in the wee, small hours; in Saigon (French Indo-China) in the morning;" in San Francisco at sunset; and also at Long Island in the evening. The evening of departure and arrival...
With Harvard facing Dartmouth, Princeton battling Notre Dame, and Yale opposing Brown, it is a good bet that at least one of the Big Three will go down to defeat this afternoon. All three of the trio are due to have a troublesome two hours before sunset...
Time was not in Elfland, nor dawn nor sunset nor any change at all. The deep 'blue of summer gloaming, the pale blue of Venus flooding the evening, the night-blue deeps of twilit lakes-these were hints of Elfland's color, as the rarest of earthly smells and shapes and sounds were hints of Elfland's other beauties...
...gets no richer; worries much and gets no happier. It casts off old errors to take on new ones; laughs over ancient superstitions and shivers over modern ones. It is at best but a Garden of Follies, whose chattering gardeners move a moment among the flowers, waiting for the sunset...