Dowland also sets part of Essex's poem " From silent night " in his 1612 collection of songs.

On the night of 17 June 1643, Prince Rupert sortied on a raid out of Oxford to capture the Parliamentarian army's paymaster, but while that failed, did succeed the next morning in overwhelming two of Essex's small garrison outposts at Postcombe and Chinnor.

Committed suicide the night before his execution.

Helped to escape on the night before his execution by Garth, Devon convinces Rachel and Garth to come with him and after making their way to the bridge they have found that it had been damaged and its control systems made in-operative, the crew killed ( a few skeletal bodies are lying there ) and the ARK is on a collision course with a Class G star similar to the Sun.

The next night, as soon as she finishes the tale, she begins ( and only begins ) a new one, and the king, eager to hear the conclusion, postpones her execution once again.

Al-Nadim then writes about the Persian Hazār Afsān, explaining the frame story it employs: a bloodthirsty king kills off a succession of wives after their wedding night ; finally one concubine had the intelligence to save herself by telling him a story every evening, leaving each tale unfinished until the next night so that the king would delay her execution.

When he is seduced by a temptress and accidentally murders a man, she visits him in his cell on the night before his execution, pretending to be his fiancée.

Meursault ultimately grasps the universe's indifference towards humankind ( coming to terms with his execution ): " As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope ; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the benign indifference of the world.

" Nonetheless, a few hours after the conviction, Stalin ordered their execution for that night.

The night before her execution, she told the Reverend Stirling Gahan, the Anglican chaplain who had been allowed to see her and to give her Holy Communion, " Patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

A fence was erected around the gallows but citizens burned the fence the night before the execution.

That night the King lodged at Culver Hall ( now Vernon House ) in West Street before the party continued to London for Charles's trial and execution in January 1649.

The Gospel of Peter is more detailed in its account of the events after the Crucifixion than any of the canonical gospels, and it varies from the canonical accounts in numerous details: Herod gives the order for the execution, not Pilate, who is exonerated ; Joseph ( of Arimathea, which place is not mentioned ) has been acquainted with Pilate ; in the darkness that accompanied the crucifixion, " many went about with lamps, supposing that it was night, and fell down ".

The night before his execution, Kahless asked that he be allowed to go out into the night and say farewell to the moon and the stars, for he knew that in the Netherworld, he would not see them again.

Sir Greville found it particularly amusing when B ' Stard was sentenced to death and in fact spent the night of Alan's planned execution with the condemned man's wife.

The Earl of Derby passed through Leigh again in 1651, when he spent his last night in the King's Arms, before going on to his execution outside Ye Olde Man & Scythe Inn in Bolton.

Yezhov was shot later that night in an execution chamber that had been built according to Yezhov's own specifications near the Lubianka headquarters.

The night before his execution he sent for Mrs. Ó Murchadha who was also being held prisoner.

Wherefore, after having made his investigations with the utmost secrecy and precaution, he notified Mirò that, in order to carry, as he was commanded, his instructions into perfect execution in all their parts, he might soon, at some late hour of the night, deem it necessary to require some guards to assist him in his operations.

That same night, the political prisoners that the Derg had marked for execution were taken from Menelik prison, where they had been held, to the Akaki Central Prison where they were executed and buried in a mass grave.

On the night of 31 July Marcel was about to open the gates of the capital to them, but Jean Maillart prevented the execution of this design.

On the night before his execution he made an unsuccessful attempt at suicide by opening the veins in his arm.

In his letter to his wife, written the night before his execution he mentions his sisters-and also ' my little sister Babb '.

The night before the execution, Anna took a second dose of laudanum but was unable to keep it down.

`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.

The fumes of progress are in his nose and the bright steel of industry towers before his eyes, but his heart is away in Yoknapatawpha County with razorback hogs and night riders.

Ptolemy's problem is to forecast where, against the inverted bowl of night, some particular light will be found at future times.

The American-Negro Suite is in a sense an extension of the Cotton Club songs in that it is a collection of Negro songs, not for a night club, but for the concert stage.

This is a phenomenon familiar to all radio listeners, resulting from reflection of skywave signals at night from the ionized layer in the upper atmosphere known as the ionosphere.

Therefore, under our longstanding allocation rules, on some of these channels no station other than the dominant ( class 1 ) -- A ) station is permitted to operate at night, so that the 1, -- A station can render service, interference free, wherever it can be received.

`` The pattern '', says Dr. Morton Schillinger, psychologist at New York's Lincoln Institute for Psychotherapy, `` is for the husband to hover about anxiously and eagerly, virtually trembling in his hope that she will flash him the signal that tonight is the night ''.

`` Diane is the type of girl '', Jelke said, `` who wouldn't get loving -- even on her wedding night -- unless you piled up all your money in the middle of the floor ''.

I'm sending you a couple of customers -- yeah -- just get them out of my hair and keep them out -- I don't give a damn what you tell them -- only don't believe a word they say -- they're out to make trouble for me and it is up to you to stop them -- I don't care how -- and one more thing -- Cate's Cafe closed at eleven like always last night and Rose and Clarence Corsi left for Quebec yesterday -- some shrine or other -- I think it was called Saint Simon's -- yeah, yesterday.

A petition bearing the signatures of more than 1,700 Johnston taxpayers was presented to the town council last night as what is hoped will be the first step in obtaining a home rule charter for the town.

-- James P. Mitchell and Sen. Walter H. Jones R-Bergen, last night disagreed on the value of using as a campaign issue a remark by Richard J. Hughes, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, that the GOP is `` Campaigning on the carcass of Eisenhower Republicanism ''.

Helping foreign countries to build a sound political structure is more important than aiding them economically, E. M. Martin, assistant secretary of state for economic affairs told members of the World Affairs Council Monday night.

Jump off is tomorrow night when the Packs meet St. Louis in their season home opener.

The Louisiana city is known, of course, for its fine food, good music and its colorful hospitality `` and, when guests arrive at Philmont that night '', says Mrs. Grinsfelder, `` that is exactly what we expect to offer them.

The Councilman, who is the Administration floor leader, also criticized Bernard L. Werner, public works director, for `` halting snow operations '' on Tuesday night after the Sunday storm.

The Leningrad Kirov Ballet, which opened a series of performances Friday night at the Opera House, is, I think, the finest `` classical '' ballet company I have ever seen, and the production of the Petipa-Tschaikowsky `` Sleeping Beauty '' with which it began the series is incomparably the finest I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing.

For A good many seasons I've been looking at the naughty stuff on television, so the other night I thought I ought to see how immorality is doing on the other side of the fence in movies.

A teenage girl, Abigail Williams, is being sharply questioned by her minister uncle, the Reverend Samuel Parris, about a wild night affair in the woods in which she and some other girls had seemed to have had contact with these evil beings.

For all involved in this discussion the devil is a real entity who can really be confronted in the woods on a dark night, the demon world is populated with real creatures, and witches actually can be seen flying through the air.

Some pastors write a letter the same night the decision is reported by the visitors.