What is "nightlong"

Usage examples of "nightlong".

Worn by more than her nightlong vigil, Taen dragged her feet through the sand.

So Barry Cadwallader mounted his grey and rode the woods nightlong until the sun was up.

Nightlong on black print-branches our beech-tree Gazes in this whiteness: Nightlong could I.

Six knights in sable armorthe color of darkest nightlong black plumes floating from the crests of their helms.

It was then that he simply faded into the environment, became invisible in what would be a nightlong party that now, with the departure of their visitors, had shifted into high.

Attica-style, but instead a scattered nightlong propagation of human chaos, random shooting, tear gas from above, buildings and cars set ablaze, everyone a possible enemy, too much of it in the dark after the electric power, along with the water, got cut off.

As it was, we had to shelter as best we could under rock overhangs and in crevices to escape the nightlong falls of hot ash from the volcano and windborne embers from the fires.

The apprentice dormitory remained vacant, for Froh had been sternly warned that any repetition of the nightlong brawls would see him heavily fined, something which he feared much more than being jailed.

But when a nightlong search failed to produce even a clue to the missing men, Tim sought out Sir Geros, locating him at last lowering a cloth-wrapped bundle onto a pyre of faggots he had laid between his small house and the outer wall.

And all that shadowy domain, lighted by the dim flicker of grease lamps and candles and thick with layer after layer of incense-laden gloom, whispered with the soft chanting of nightlong prayers.

After a nightlong session with the jar of illicited spirits, his father, Lemmuel Micaiah to his kinfolk and neighbors, practically raped his spouse in a spell of senseless passion.

At the nightlong feasting, warriors and courtiers alike drank freely of the abundant wine.

Early in the morning that followed her first nightlong vigil against the dreaded rats, a woman and an old man brought her food and coffee.

Egyptian surgeon and his apprentices again became very busy, while Otei, the injured al-Gahzahr, and the third partner engaged in a nightlong conference from which the Captain and al-Ain emerged looking haggard and very grim.

Feathers and paint identified the Picts as the chiefs of the Turtles, Hawks, Wildcats, and Wolves, all of them yawning and bleary-eyed from their nightlong session.