fast-lowering

Updated: May 27, 2025

Virgilia made no reply, but walked quietly by her mother's side through the Forum, beneath the great arches, up over the Capitoline Hill where Jupiter's Temple arose in grandeur, its ivory-tinted marbles beginning to turn a dull rose in the rays of the fast-lowering sun.

Felicia Buttz Clark - Virgilia : or, out of the Lion's Mouth