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night and after
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.
That night, after leaving Charlotte's apartment, Richard walked about for a time before returning to his room.
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 supper
All this remembering took place the other night when I had supper with the Ziegfeld Girls at the Beverly Hills Club.
* Supper Leave / Pub Leave: A recent privilege extended to Sixth Formers, whereby pre-approved groups of people may go into town for supper or visit a pub for one night.
The bishop trusts Valjean, feeds him supper, and gives him a bed for the night.
Well I'd come home to my Paris studio in Rue Blomet at night, I'd go to bed, and sometimes I hadn't any supper.
Shane stays for supper and the night at the invitation of Joe's wife, Marian ( Jean Arthur ), and starts working as a farmhand.
One night Osgood invites " Daphne " for a champagne supper on his yacht.
As Hercules won the contest, the keeper procured the services of Acca Larentia for the night and provided a fine supper.
Each July 3, Towanda has a spaghetti supper in the evening and a street dance at night.
The gumbo is the centerpiece of the community supper the same night, where the Mardi Gras riders sing the Chanson de Mardi Gras, an old song in Cajun French sung for generations, then take off their masks and reveal, ostensibly for the first time that day, the identity of each rider.
In his journals of " My Journeys Across the Mountain ," Washington said that he stayed all night on March 28, 1748, with Abram Johnson on Patterson Creek, and on the following day, marched fifteen miles ( 24 km ) to one Solomon Hedges, and when he came to supper, on the table was neither cloth, nor knife, nor fork.
* Night dinner or supper, ¹ the jantar: For most Brazilians, jantar is a light affair, while others dine at night.
* Late supper, ² the ceia: Brazilians eat soups, salads, pasta and what would be eaten at the elevenses if their jantar was a light one early at the evening and it is late at night or dawn.
He would tell stories to children, spread the Swedenborgian gospel to the adults, receiving a floor to sleep on for the night, sometimes supper in return.
On the same day that the takeover was announced, Citytv canceled its supper hour, late night, and weekend newscasts at its local Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg stations, laying off hundreds of news department staff.
# They take the communion at night, after supper, as did the Lord ( Mark 14: 17, 23 ).
" One night over supper I wondered aloud what would happen if Dracula came back in the twentieth century, to America.
This characteristic makes it a dish of choice as breakfast or as late night supper.
Samuel Pepys ( whose wife was French ) recorded a party in London on Epiphany night, 6 January 1659 / 1660: "... to my cousin Stradwick, where, after a good supper, there being there my father, mothers, brothers, and sister, my cousin Scott and his wife, Mr. Drawwater and his wife, and her brother, Mr. Stradwick, we had a brave cake brought us, and in the choosing, Pall was Queen and Mr. Stradwick was King.
The second man in our Housing Commission had to see two women in his family at 23 Hankow Road raped last night at supper time by Japanese soldiers.
To a supper club owner: " It's Friday night, there are maybe a dozen people out there, at 2 bucks a head ... You must be a financial wizard -- you don't take in enough to wax your dance floors, yet you manage to meet a payroll and contribute large chucks of money to the Eckworth Foundation.
Today, CBWT airs a 90-minute supper hour newscast from 5pm-6: 30pm on weeknights, alongside a ten-minute late night summary at 11pm and short weekend newscasts.
Expecting nothing but a nod of thanks, the man was astonished when the general arranged for his supper and a place for him to stay for the night.
Traubel's contract at the Metropolitan Opera was not renewed in 1953 when its General Manager, Rudolf Bing, expressed disapproval of her radio and TV appearances alongside the likes of Jimmy Durante and her expressed desire to expand her lucrative career in major supper and night clubs.
One hundred and eighty ate supper with them that night.

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