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night and after
That night after supper I went back over to 48 Spruce Street -- Ralph and I at that time were living at 168 Chestnut -- and Ralph went with me.
I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.
Adam thought of the hutments, regiment after regiment, row after row, the thousands of huts, stretching away into the night.
I couldn't face Thelma after that night.
But after the doctor's return that night Alex could see, from the high window in his own room, the now familiar figure crouched on a truly impressive heap of towels, apparently giving its egg-hatching powers one final chance before it was replaced in its office by a sure-enough hen.
The night after reading her letter about her surgeon uncle -- it must have been late in September -- I had a vision of myself returned in ragged uniform from The Front, nearly dying, my head bandaged and blooded, and Jessica bending over me, the power of her love bringing me back to life.
Parents will drive on Friday night to pick up their daughters after a sorority or House Plan meeting.
He found them near the carcass of a zebra that had been killed the night before, and he circled once, nose to the ground, hair shooting up along his back, as it did when he was after lion or bear, and then he lifted his head and bayed, and the pack joined in, all heads high, and Jones knew it was a hot trail.
A thug struck a cab driver in the face with a pistol last night after robbing him of $18 at Franklin and Mount Streets.
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 Polish song and dance company called Mazowsze, after the region of Poland, where it has its headquarters, opened a three-week engagement at the City Center last night.
So the audience last night was all ears and eyes just after Act 2, got a rousing opening chorus, `` Where's Charley??
Night after night he stayed with Gunny in the dead of winter, rubbing her with quarts of expensive liniment, fussing over her bran mash as the cook did over charlotte russe, tracking manure on the pretty new carpet when he did come to the house.
The very night after her father's funeral she had thought, though never admitted to a soul: Now I can go.
On January 19, 1862, the ill-prepared Confederates, after a night march in the rain, attacked the Union force with some initial success.
The Danes, however, broke their word and, after killing all the hostages, slipped away under cover of night to Exeter in Devon.
At the time, only the dress rehearsal and opening night performance were held, and the play was not revived until after Jarry's death.
One story is that The Rolling Stones went to stay at Korner's house late one night, in the early 1960s, after a performance.
In the meantime Abd ar-Rahman obtained the surrender of the city from its population, after promising them immunity, although 4, 000 rebel men escaped in a night sally.
With a visual magnitude of − 0. 04, it is the fourth brightest star in the night sky, after − 1. 46 magnitude Sirius, − 0. 86 magnitude Canopus, and − 0. 27 magnitude Alpha Centauri.
The next night, after celebrating Grendel's death, Hrothgar and his men sleep in Heorot.
On a highly emotional night at Wembley, Charlton scored twice in a 4 – 1 win after extra time against Benfica and, as United captain, lifted the trophy.

night and leaving
Instead, that night ( July 17 / 18 ), Alexios III hid in the palace, and finally, with one of his daughters, Eirene, and such treasures ( 1, 000 pounds of gold ) as he could collect, got into a boat and escaped to Debeltos in Thrace, leaving his wife and his other daughters behind.
On July 10, the Cossacks fell into a panic, believing that their commanders had run off in the night, leaving them to their fate.
That night, leaving Mei Ling in the bedroom alone, Lee begins searching the island for evidence and finds a secret entrance to an underground base, where drugs are being manufactured and tested on unwitting prisoners.
He records that, in prayer one night after leaving two acquaintances at a drinking session, he heard an inner voice saying, " Thou seest how young people go together into vanity, and old people into the earth ; thou must forsake all, young and old, keep out of all, and be as a stranger unto all.
Typically honeymoons would start on the night they were married, with the couple leaving midway through the reception to catch a late train or ship.
Khunen writes, " Hamsters are nocturnal rodents who are active during the night ...", but others have written that because hamsters live underground during most of the day, only leaving their burrows about an hour before sundown and then returning when it gets dark, their behavior is primarily crepuscular.
One night, while Jadwiga was leaving by a secret door, Jagiello sprang out of the bushes and demanded to see what was in her apron.
It was at this time that he created the persona of Mr. T. His wearing of gold neck chains and other jewelry was the result of customers losing the items or leaving them behind at the night club after a fight.
Saint Matilda was celebrated for her devotion to prayer and almsgiving ; her first biographer depicted her ( in a passage indebted to the sixth-century vita of the Frankish queen Radegund by Venantius Fortunatus ) leaving her husband's side in the middle of the night and sneaking off to church to pray.
Acting on the information, Mary waited outside Elizabeth's room and caught her husband leaving it late at night.
Just as on the first Pesach night, breaking bones from the second Paschal offering ( Numbers 9: 12 ) or leaving meat over until morning ( Numbers 9: 12 ) is prohibited.
Although interestingly there do not appear to be any scheduled flights between the two countries and the train service, which used to be frequent, has been limited to one train a day in each direction ( a night service from Budapest to Venice and back ) until December 2011, when it was discontinued, thus leaving no railway connection between the two countries.
This practice gave rise to the term bedroom community, meaning that most daytime business activity took place in the city, with the working population leaving the city at night for the purpose of going home to sleep.
Upon leaving the house ( where it had been a cold, snowy night ), she enters a sunny spring garden where the flowers have the power of human speech ; they perceive Alice as being a " flower that can move about.
* Convince friends that you have a high powered job in the City by leaving for work at 6 am every morning, arriving home at 10 at night, never keeping social appointments and dropping down dead at the age of 36
The castle, stripped of its furniture and ornaments during the Revolution, was left abandoned, with only Napoleon briefly staying one night there and then leaving the castle for good.
In time Whitehouse and Enfield became disturbed that Loadsamoney was being seen in a positive light, rather than as a satirical figure, and they had him run over during a Comic Relief Red Nose Day show while leaving the studio after presenting host Lenny Henry with " the biggest cheque of the night "— a physically huge cheque for ten pence.
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.
During a night in his conquest on Masyaf, Saladin woke-up from his sleep to find a figure leaving his tent.
After leaving high-school for financial reasons at the age of fifteen, he held a variety of unskilled jobs, while continuing his education at night school.
One story often told, both in respect of a full size carriage & one of his models, is that one night Murdoch decided to test his carriage outside on the open road and it soon outpaced him, leaving him to chase after it.
His death shook the St. Louis community: within two hours of his death, fans were leaving flowers at the base of his bust outside Busch Stadium even though it was the middle of the night.
She and Riley make love for the first time in his car, and she leaves the next day, leaving a note describing why she did what she did, and that what happened the previous night was special for her ... and a warning: " Get out of that card game.

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