Nights

Examples

• Rawdon acquiesced in the justice of her opinion; and in truth he had remarked that after a few nights of his little suppers, &c. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Catherine Barkley took three nights off night duty and then she came back on again. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Of course the nights were getting longer. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She wished it was dead, she said; and she wouldn't let me have it o' nights, cause, she said, it kept me awake, and made me good for nothing. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• A railway here in Asia--in the dreamy realm of the Orient--in the fabled land of the Arabian Nights--is a strange thing to think of. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Mr Wegg (who had had nothing else in his mind for several nights) took off his spectacles with an air of bland surprise. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He walked over to me, and said: 'Young man, I want you to work the Louisville wire nights; your salary will be $125. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Then a battle began that lasted for two days and two nights, the object of which was to get a carbonized thread that would not break. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• And why tonight of all nights? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He had all his life been in terror of the nights that should come, when he could not sleep. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• That night passed: all nights--even the starless night before dissolution--must wear away. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• And this extraordinary number is NEARLY equal to the number of days and nights in a year (365 x 2 = 730); and is therefore concerned with human life. Plato. The Republic.
• By the old hand method it required twenty-eight men, two days and two nights, to unload a cargo of 4,000,000 pounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I summoned all the resolutions I had made, in all those many days and nights, and all those many conflicts of my heart. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Besides, the nights are so still, that the sound of oars can easily be heard a long way off, especially by men trained to hear like my Greeks. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• At evening he crawled slowly back; and he used to go of nights to a little club at a tavern, where he disposed of the finances of the nation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The nights here are long sometimes--very long; but they are nothing to the restless nights, and dreadful dreams I had at that time. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Monseigneur was out at a little supper most nights, with fascinating company. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• But she sweats so, nights! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• O the many, many nights and days through which the unquiet spirit within me haunted that house when Estella lived there! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• What you tell me about in the nights. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Tangier is a foreign land if ever there was one, and the true spirit of it can never be found in any book save The Arabian Nights. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• And as she looked at her husband's portrait of nights, it no longer reproached her--perhaps she reproached it, now William was gone. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Jerry has been my bodyguard on Sunday nights for a long time past and I am used to him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Suppers are not bad if we have not dined; but restless nights naturally follow hearty suppers after full dinners. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• That makes not quite three days and three nights. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• If he can't, we shall have another chance of catching them in the shrubbery, before many more nights are over our heads. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I find the nights long, for I sleep but little and think much. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But perhaps I shall win yet, and then I'll get a wife to sit up with me o' nights and I won't be afeard, I won't! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I then applied for a job on the Grand Trunk Railroad as a railway operator, and was given a place, nights, at Stratford Junction, Canada. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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