Evenings

Examples

• The scene of that afternoon was repeated that evening, and on the three afternoons and evenings next ensuing. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Stay here and dine, stay here and help us to spend our last evening with you as happily, as like our first evenings, as we can. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The excursionists danced, on three separate evenings, long, long ago, (it seems an age. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The Semites had no long winter evenings and no bardic singing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But the evenings were rather difficult to fill up agreeably. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• To conceal from my friends the stinted manner in which I lived, I was in the habit of bringing my food to my room in the evenings, and this was my mode of life for many years. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I might look in there now; the Fisher evenings are amusing. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Not only that evening, but for several succeeding evenings, Clennam was quite charmed by this investigation. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• After dinner we played at cards; and, when we had concluded one of the most stupid evenings possible, Worcester and I took our leave. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• It was one of those summer evenings when there is no greater darkness than a long twilight. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I wish you could tell me of some secret plan that would help me to keep him home at my will in the evenings. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• There was little profit in trying to grow much cotton at such a rate, and most of the cotton picking was done by the negroes in the evenings, when the harder labor of the fields was finished. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• They were a wretched waste of the evenings; and now, when he had talked a little more to Rosamond, he meant to excuse himself and go. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There must be a sort of shyness; but I cannot recollect that our evenings formerly were ever merry, except when my uncle was in town. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The sale was at the old house in Russell Square, where we passed some evenings together at the beginning of this story. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The evenings were chilly, and by Mrs. Shaw's directions fires were lighted in every bedroom. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• As the six evenings had dwindled away, to five, to four, to three, to two, I had become more and more appreciative of the society of Joe and Biddy. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It was one of the two evenings in every week which I was accustomed to spend with my mother and my sister. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• So, at six o'clock that evening, which was one of the early office evenings, I announced myself as ready, to Uriah. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• We talked much of Mr. Micawber, on many other evenings while Mr. Peggotty remained with us. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Calm evenings are not calm to me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Well, who is; but who has good music, and amuses people on Sunday evenings, when the whole of New York is dying of inanition. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• But on winter evenings, when he has fallen asleep at his table, I have heard him, what I should prefer to describe as partially choke. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• At your age, a week of evenings-out would not have made me a shade paler. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I am much obliged to you for one of the pleasantest evenings I ever spent in my life. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• As for the evenings, I think we can help you through them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The evenings do not appear long to me. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• You are considering how insupportable it would be to pass many evenings in this manner--in such society; and indeed I am quite of your opinion. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It is so pleasant that we spend our evenings talking there when too tired with our day's work to go out. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

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