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night and was
He found that if he was tired enough at night, he went to sleep simply because he was too exhausted to stay awake.
Dawn would come soon and the night was at its coldest.
It was the night Clayton had tricked them in the poker game.
Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.
That girl last night, what was her name??
For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.
The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??
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.
In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.
That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.
After I paid Monsieur Prieur for Dandy, I brought him home, but he was ill at ease and ran away the same night.
Dr. Lalaurie and I didn't even know he was in the house until the night of our ball when he came down the stairs ''.
A few months ago it was a fairly typical landlord who in the dead of night lugged me up a mountainside to drink from a spring famous in the neighborhood for its clarity and flavor.
It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.
She was pious, too, once kneeling through the night from Holy Thursday to Good Friday, despite the protest of the nuns that this was too much for a young girl.
Incidentally, there was an Atlas firing last night.
That night a note written in Slocum's hand and dated from inside the captured city came to Sherman stating that the Twentieth Corps was in possession of Atlanta.
Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.
From the night of August 30 to the morning of September 2 there was no Union cavalry east of the Macon railway to disclose to Sherman that he was missing the greatest opportunity of his career.
The restaurant to which the Sakellariadises took us on this night of controversy was the Asteria, on Asteria beach.

night and cold
He burst from the hot confinement of the room into the cold night air.
The cold lingered, making sleep difficult that night, and he remained in bed still the next morning, now unable to keep from thinking about the inexplicable sight of burning metal, the wretched sound, the unbearable feeling of having been to a remote Tokyo temple at some earlier time in his life.
It was a mid-summer shoot and while on location on a huge castle set that was built near Acton, California on the edge of the Mojave Desert, the cast and crew endured very hot conditions during the day and very cold temperatures at night.
" The bodies lay in the blowing snow through the night ...... February indeed made us shiver, but it was more than the cold of February that third day of the month in 1959.
Exfoliation occurs mainly in deserts due to the high temperatures during the day and cold temperatures at night.
This is characterized by excessive insomnia, anxiety, confusion, disorientation, insomnia, hot flashes, uncontrollable cold sweats, diaphoresis, chills, fever, uncontrollable perspiration, persistent unrelenting nightmares every night and perceptual disturbances.
In some parts of the world the oil was actually drained and heated over night and returned to the engine for cold starts.
She said she was kept naked in a suicide watch cell and given cold showers and that Reno visited her late at night in pursuit of her confession and damning testimony.
On a cold night in New Jersey, the Giants defeated Dallas Cowboys 31 – 14 in Week 17 to clinch the NFC East and thus their NFL record 31st playoff appearance, breaking their tie with the Cowboys at 30.
An example of the storage of " cold " heat removal for later use is ice made during the cooler night time hours for use during the hot daylight hours.
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.
The principal reason for the nighttime warming is that buildings block surface heat from radiating into the relatively cold night sky.
A morning after a cold night in the US.
* Ahmad Shah Bahadur's army, retreating from Persia, reportedly loses 18, 000 men near what is present-day Herat, Afghanistan from cold in a single night.
In countries where at night, humid air sweeps the countryside, water can be obtained from the humid air by condensation onto cold surfaces.
A glittering crowd attended the first night in London, including Captain ( later Captain Sir ) Eyre Massey Shaw, head of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, whom the Fairy Queen apostrophizes in the second act (" Oh, Captain Shaw / Type of true love kept under / Could thy brigade with cold cascade / Quench my great love, I wonder ?").
* Hot flashes or hot flushes, including night sweats and, in a few people, cold flashes
The petals close at night or in cold, windy weather and open again the following morning, although they may remain closed in cloudy weather.
At 6 pm, as night had fallen on a cold Versailles covered in snow, the king, who was visiting his daughter, left her apartments to return to the Trianon where he was staying.
High altitude areas such as Mulanje and Nyika are often cold at night ( around ) during June and July.
Thermal imaging can be used to document areas of poor thermal performance such as the negative thermal impact of roof-angled glass or a skylight on a cold winter night or hot summer day.
Infrared thermography color thermal imaging cameras ( used in formal energy audits ) can quickly document the negative thermal impact of roof-angled glass or a skylight on a cold winter night or hot summer day.
In his memoirs, A. A. Mordvinov reported that all four grand duchesses appeared " cold and visibly terribly upset " by Rasputin's death and sat " huddled up closely together " on a sofa in one of their bedrooms on the night they received the news.

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