1. They sat on a hillside in the gloaming, watching the lights come on in the houses below.

2. Shepherds was pelting through the gloaming their sheep and goats.

3. In the gloaming before sunrise they saw each other's features as pale apparitions.

4. In the gloaming the Weem folk made their way home along the dark gorge of the road.

5. In the brilliant gloam, where is your harbor?

6. He did not hear the sound of heavy feet, Or in the gloaming see a spiked top hat.

7. Parkas worn over close-fitting body pieces leap from the gloaming in acid greens, violent oranges, purples and cardinal reds.