half-lighted

The field lights were off now, but the moon was full over the mountains, and the rounded details of the ball diamond had the soft half-lighted quality of memory.

The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010

Yet still, read aloud, to an undoubting audience by the doubtful light of the closing evening, or in silence, by a decaying taper, and amidst the solitude of a half-lighted apartment, it may redeem its character as a good ghost story.

The Tapestried Chamber 2008

Yet still, read aloud, to an undoubting audience by the doubtful light of the closing evening, or in silence, by a decaying taper, and amidst the solitude of a half-lighted apartment, it may redeem its character as a good ghost story.

The Tapestried Chamber 2008

Not-being should be a dusky, half-lighted place (Republic), belonging neither to the old world of sense and imagination, nor to the new world of reflection and reason.

Theaetetus 2007

The mind cannot be fixed on either alternative; and these ambiguous, intermediate, erring, half-lighted objects, which have a disorderly movement in the region between being and not-being, are the proper matter of opinion, as the immutable objects are the proper matter of knowledge.

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

Anyway, but we did get the tree half-lighted (and it looks pretty -- less like the March of the Forest has invaded our house, more like something we meant to do).

readersguide Diary Entry readersguide 2006

Looking up, it seemed much higher and bigger than it had seemed from without, and the vague, half-lighted gloom, the silence and the mystery gave me the shudders.

The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005

Dark towers, and old half-lit stone-work; winding, built in, glimpsy passages; the sudden spacious half-lighted gloom of a chanced-on quadrangle; chiming of clocks, and the feeling of a dark and old and empty town that was yet brimming with hidden modern life and light, kept them almost speechless; and, since they had never known their way, they were at once lost.

Over the River 2004

Whence they had come the broad, half-lighted strip of street ran between glimpsed grey frontages and doorways.

Over the River 2004

Turning from her to him, I used to see him in the shaded gardens, or the large half-lighted sala, looking, as I might say, ‘fixedly upon her out of darkness.’

To Be Read At Dusk, by Charles Dickens 2004