Examples of use of eventide
1. Lady Stocks described the Lords as "a perfect eventide home". This remark is often quoted as a damning comment on its character.
2. See them in the soft eventide, when the orb of day is slowly sinking behind the western hills, and the walls of flaring brick and the multitudinous windows, "whose panes the sunken sun incarnadines" glow with a universal ruddiness, and you seem to be looking upon the scene of a huge conflagration.