Nightfall

Examples

• Leave this island before nightfall, or, by heaven, I will have you drowned like the rat you are! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Finding my apprehensions unfounded, however, and calmed by the deep silence that reigned as evening declined at nightfall, I took confidence. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Sherman, however, was not aware of the extent of our success until after nightfall, when he received orders to pursue at daylight in the morning. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The man is by trade a conjurer and performer, going round the canteens after nightfall, and giving a little entertainment at each. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• After nightfall we reached our tents, just outside of the nasty Arab village of Jonesborough. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• All day he was down town; and in winter it was long after nightfall when she heard his fagged step on the stairs and his hand on the school-room door. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The battle lasted three days; each day the Arabs attacked and the Persian host held its ground until nightfall called a truce. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As John Dawkins objected to their entering London before nightfall, it was nearly eleven o'clock when they reached the turnpike at Islington. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• All this happened towards evening, and before nightfall, when my husband went to Catherick's house, he was gone, nobody knew where. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It was nearly nightfall, and we had eaten nothing since early morning, so that we spent some time over our meal. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Wallace brought 5,000 more after nightfall. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But the communication was liable to be interrupted by fogs, as well as by nightfall. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• By nightfall the late defenders of Camp Jackson were all within the walls of the St. Louis arsenal, prisoners of war. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The report of this reached me after nightfall. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We went into the town before nightfall and looked at its people--we cared nothing about its houses. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Typist: Murray