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night and before
although we didn't expect the attack before dawn, the long cloudy night, filled with the sounds of the industrious insects, seemed endless.
He was disturbed by what had happened on the dive and by what he remembered of a conversation he had had the night before with the German, who had come out of the head while he was fixing himself a drink in the galley.
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.
The night before, they had telephoned the Andrus maid, Selena Masters, and she had arrived early, bursting her vigorous presence into the silent house with an assurance that amused McFeeley and confounded Moll.
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.
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.
At Osaka, Mr. Yoneda had to leave us to get the train to his home, but Mr. Nishima and I had an hour and a half before train time to see Osaka at night.
Shayne turned the handle and jerked the door open before either of the men were quite aware of his presence in the night.
The doorman began to nod his head automatically, then remembered who Gilborn was, what had happened to him the night before.
`` I'll collar Tim before night ''.
The next day, Sunday, the hangover reminded Haney where he had been the night before.
He ran his string of successful conversions this season to 13 straight before one went astray last Saturday night in the 41-8 slaughter of Washington State.
Then, when the case went to the jury, the judge excused one of the jurors, saying the juror had told him he had been accosted by masked men at his motel the night before the trial opened.
The Moiseyev Dance Company dropped in at Madison Square Garden last night for the first of four farewell performances before it brings its long American tour to a close.
Everything was as I had left it the night before last -- her portfolio and bag for town, her lingerie and dress and shoes laid out only her mink coat was missing.
It happened two weeks ago, the night before his father left on a business trip to South America.
She'd been out with Pete the night before and her gay chatter about their date lightened my mood a little.
She had heard about it the night before at her hotel.
That night, after leaving Charlotte's apartment, Richard walked about for a time before returning to his room.
When the solution finally came to him, one night while he was in bed, he was so shaken by its simplicity that he could only wonder why it had not occurred to him before.
When Amphitryon finally returned to Thebes, Alcmene told him that he had come the night before and slept with her ; he learned from Tiresias what Zeus had done.
At his and Lincoln's inaugural ceremony on March 4, 1865, Johnson, who had been drinking with John W. Forney that morning, as well as the night before, gave a rambling speech and appeared intoxicated to many.
If a flame is held before the lips while these words are spoken, it flickers more during aspirated nitrate than during unaspirated night rate.
Examples of prayer which are unique to Luke include Jesus's prayers at the time of his baptism (), his praying all night before choosing the twelve (), and praying for the transfiguration ().
The night before he is to return from leave, he stays up with her, exchanging small expressions of love and concern for each other.

night and sting
The behavior of one of the most common genera, Favia, is semi-aggressive ; it will sting other corals with its extended sweeper tentacles during the night.
The common name, katipo, is a Māori name and means night stinger ; it is derived from two words, kakati ( to sting ), and po ( the night ).
In the prologue, set in the South Bronx during the late night to early morning hours on New Year's Eve 1980, three armed assailants attempt a mugging on a supposedly unsuspecting woman, who turns out to be DaSilva in drag for a carefully planned sting operation.

night and Hooker
Sedgwick withdrew across the ford early on May 5, and Hooker withdrew the remainder of his army across U. S. Ford the night of May 5 – 6.
Reynolds, who had gone to sleep after giving his proxy vote to Meade, woke up and muttered loud enough for Hooker to hear, " What was the use of calling us together at this time of night when he intended to retreat anyhow?
On the morning of the 29th he acknowledged Hooker's letters, writing " I cannot think now ", then that night he read the letters, and though " quite prostrated ", got his servant to take to Hooker Wallace's essay, the letter to Asa Gray and the Essay of 1844, leaving matters in the hands of Lyell and Hooker.
Hearing that Sedgwick had been repulsed, Hooker abandoned the entire campaign, recrossing on the night of May 5 into May 6 to the north bank of the Rappahannock River back towards the Federal camp at Falmouth.
Mrs. Hooker had spent the afternoon copying out extracts from the handwritten documents Darwin had sent with his letter of the previous night, presumably chosen by Hooker to suit the verbal presentation, and Lyell and Hooker wrote a short introductory letter.

night and sleeps
Carmilla sleeps much of the day, and seems to sleepwalk at night.
The giraffe sleeps intermittently around 4. 6 hours per day, mostly at night.
From then on, Scarlett and Rhett sleep in separate bedrooms, and when Bonnie is two years old, she sleeps in a little bed beside Rhett's bed ( with the light on all night long because she is afraid of the dark ).
They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow.
That night, Al is driving while Haskell sleeps, when a rainstorm forces Al to pull over to put up the top.
A wire clothes hanger was also a featured prop in a central scene in the 1981 movie Mommie Dearest, in which Joan Crawford, played by Faye Dunaway, enters the room of her daughter, Christina, at night while the girl sleeps, to admire the beautiful clothes hanging nicely in her closet.
That night, while everyone sleeps, he conjures a fleet of warships.
Cathbad suggests a solution: Conchobar sleeps with Emer on the night of the wedding, but Cathbad sleeps between them.
As the ceremony ends, Tāwhaki and Karihi leap out and kill all the people except Hine-te-kawa, who sleeps with Tāwhaki that night.
One sleeps after engaging in dhikr, the angels will protect him throughout the night.
Hansson's investigation further reports that the average Swedish national parliamentarian sleeps 6. 5 hours per night.
They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow!
That night, he sleeps in the open and is blinded by bird droppings that fall in his eyes.
They go on a date together and Esther sleeps the night at his apartment.
Leah agrees, and that night she sleeps with Jacob and conceives Issachar.
* In the computer game Quest for Glory I: So You Want To Be A Hero, if the player sleeps in unsafe areas of the forest at night, the game will instantly end with a message saying “ Looks Like the Night Gaunt Got You .” The accompanying illustration shows a dark silhouette of an unhorned humanoid.
The Essex movie theater now shows porno movies while the Town Theater is used for church services, and the courthouse is in a state of disrepair, and at night at least one homeless person ( called " Red " by Marty ) sleeps on the town square park benches.
One night, thinking that Robin is dead and he will never see her again, Frank gets drunk and sleeps with Angelica.
Every night he sleeps with his blanket and Sam.
Later that night, as Sheridan sleeps, Delenn watches over him.
After a passionate night, he sleeps while she reads part of Chapter XI of Three Weeks aloud.
One night, Rachel comes to Mark's room while he sleeps.
However, one of the astronauts-Patrick Ross-immediately disregards the advice and sleeps with two women that night ( Nancy La Scala and Raquel Gardner ).

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