The church bells knelled the peaceful ending of the day, while the purple shades of night descended sadly and majestically on the low chain of neighbouring hills.

There is no reasonable way to imagine an area --- be it a large gas cloud, a single superenormous star, or even a galaxy-sized assembly of star --- could "light up” all at once.

His comments to the press were in the same carping vein as in previous speeches.

Plutarch saith that mens minds do rust and forgrow through idlenes […]