As his foot came down on something solid in the shadowiness into which he stepped, the living room in Sweetwater Beach sprang into sudden existence about him.
"Gone Fishing"
James H. Schmitz
In the shadowiness of the firs, the glimmer of a fire was just discernible on the kitchen window.
"David Elginbrod"
George MacDonald
Through an old gravel-cutting a gateway led to the turf of the down, springy turf bordered on a long line, clear as a racecourse, by golden gorse covers, and leftward over the gorse the dark ridge of the fir and heath country ran companionably to the Southwest, the valley between, with undulations of wood and meadow sunned or shaded, clumps, mounds, promontories, away to broad spaces of tillage banked by wooded hills, and dimmer beyond and farther, the faintest shadowiness of heights, as a veil to the illimitable.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith