What is "night-time"

Usage examples of "night-time".

It took me a long while to somewhat recover my composure and by then we were inside it as securely as Jonah in the belly of the whale and in almost as profound a darkness, for the close boughs of the evergreens blotted out the sky except when a lump of the snow with which they were lined fell on our heads like the dropping of a big, cold-blooded bird, and then a few scraps of red light from the fire we left behind us showed through the gap, bloodying the night-time clouds.

But here it must be noted that this transvection offers a difficulty, which has often been mentioned, arising from one single authority, where it is said: It cannot be admitted as true that certain wicked women, perverted by Satan and seduced by the illusions and phantasms of devils, do actually, as they believe and profess, ride in the night-time on certain beasts with Diana, a goddess of the Pagans, or with Herodias and an innumerable multitude of women, and in the untimely silence of night pass over immense tracts of land, and have to obey her in all things as their Mistress, etc.

Accustomed in her London practice to seeing nameless men and women huddled on night-time pavements, Anna still marvelled at the thought that there was unlikely to be a single native soul on the island of Guernsey unaccounted for.

Some men from America went to Ningpo, and talked long and loud of the darkness of the city, its streets dangerous in the night-time, its continual fires caused by the flickering lamps of oil that are being so constantly overturned by the many children.

From ahead, clanging through the night-time, came the sound of pots and pans being beaten together and mixed with shouts and the barking of Ahab.

Tranquilino Jeantete came, as did his night-time barmaid at the Frontier, Teofila Chacon, who" had seven of her thirteen children in tow.

He crossed the seething water and found the South Essex's Quartermaster, a plump officer named Collip who had accompanied the half battalion on its night-time march.

I'm fairly sober, sober enough to avoid stepping on the drunks and desolates who litter the night-time streets, or tripping over the wreckage that's still piled up after the riot.

Be a stevedore in the day time and a Beau Brummel in the night-time.

First-century Imperial Rome might be a jaw-dropper to your average Visi-Goth but nothing short of the Celestial City itself could have prepared him for' the glittering spectacle of night-time New York.

The just-one-after-work brigade had slung their jackets over their arms and headed off, while the revitalised night-time crowd had yet to catch their buses from the housing estates into the middle of town.

She bore little resemblance to the trolls and witches of my night-time fears and imaginings, but at the same time there was something about her which was unlike anything or anyone I'd ever seen.

If you want to peer out soulfully and restfully over the darkly gleaming waters of their night-time canals the best thing to do is to lean against a tree, so I leaned against a convenient tree and lit a cigarette.

She emphasized the dangers of night-time scavengers, of crop-filled fields, and the notion that the mechanicals were solar-powered.

But in a village street or crowded bar, at night-time, they should pass muster.