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This night I was invited by Mr. Rog: L ' Estrange to the incomperable Lubicer on the Violin, his variety upon a few notes & plaine ground with that dexterity, as was admirable, & though a very young man, yet so perfect & skillful as there was nothing so crosse & perplext, which being by our Artists, brought to him, which he did not at first sight, with ravishing sweetenesse & improvements, play off, to the astonishment of our best Masters: In Summ, he plaid on that single Instrument a full Consort, so as the rest, flung-downe their Instruments, as acknowledging a victory.
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`` You know what I done last night ''??
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 ''.
`` 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.
I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.
Norton and I dined one night in a sea-food restaurant in Piraeus right on the water's edge.
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.
But I only thought of that in the middle of the night.
I do it, lots o' times -- I like to lie in a hammock at night, by myself, when it's all quiet.
All this remembering took place the other night when I had supper with the Ziegfeld Girls at the Beverly Hills Club.
Never in my life have I felt so remorseful about anything I've done as I did about spending that night with my own wife.
I couldn't face Thelma after that night.
To be on the safe side I never let Eileen get out of my sight day or night.
Getting drunk every night was the only way I could handle the situation.
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.
All this was unknown to me, and yet I had dared to ask her out for the most important night of the year!!
At five o'clock that night it was already dark, and behind my closed door I was dressing as carefully as a groom.
( I watched it on television late one night last week and it `` stands up '' remarkably well, even twenty years later.
The daughter replied, `` Oh, I had dinner with -- well, you don't know him but he's awfully nice -- and we went to a couple of places -- I don't suppose you've heard of them -- and we finished up at a cute little night club -- I forget the name of it.
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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.
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 invited
Between 1977 and 1987, the Australian Football Council ( AFC ) in conjunction with the VFL ran a night series, which invited clubs and representative sides from around the country to participate in the " National Football League " for the Wills Cup, however Victorian sides still dominated.
One night, at Port-Républican, he held a ball to which he invited the most prominent mulatto ladies and, at midnight, announced the death of their husbands.
But the accusation was untrue: Jerzy and Kiki had been invited to stay with Tate the night of the Manson murders, and they missed being killed as well only because they stopped in New York en route from Paris because their luggage had been misdirected.
When Rock opened for BDP one night, D-Nice invited an A & R representative from Jive Records to see him perform.
He wrote: " The people are treated not as a liberated but as a conquered and inferior race ...." The Evans ' sentiments were followed by acts of personal charity: they took in an orphan, invited a blind woman to dinner every night.
On the night of 22 May 1844 Mullá Husayn was invited by the Báb to his home ; on that night Mullá Husayn told him that he was searching for the possible successor to Siyyid Kázim, the Promised One, and the Báb told Mullá Husayn privately that he was Siyyid Kázim's successor and the bearer of divine knowledge.
There he had an iron bed, in which he invited every passer-by to spend the night, and where he set to work on them with his smith's hammer, to stretch them to fit.
He said that provided one could exist on peanuts and champagne, one could quite easily live by going to every cocktail party, premiere and first night to which one was invited.
Reaction from Mayor Brad Smiley and local residents was negative and Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius invited Colbert to " spend a night " in Canton's historic jail.
They spent a night among the friendly Catawba Indians and were invited to stay and live in the area on a large tract of land given to them.
In 2011 it was revealed that Sebring had invited McQueen to the party at Tate's house on the night of the murders.
According to McQueen, he had invited a girlfriend to come with him, she instead suggested an intimate night at home which saved his life.
" After leaving, they discover two more survivors, Frank ( Brendan Gleeson ) a cab driver, and his teenage daughter, Hannah ( Megan Burns ), holed up in a block of flats, and are invited to spend the rest of the night with them.
In October 1939, Merton invited friends back to sleep over at his place following a long night out at a jazz club.
He found Mr. Hartop at his house, and was invited to stay the night and visit the works the next day.
* August 23 – The Violent Femmes are discovered by members of The Pretenders busking outside a Milwaukee venue and are invited to play a 10-minute acoustic set as a second opening act in the Pretenders ' show that night.
Later he accepts a ride with a health-food salesman, spends a night in jail with a friendly Native Indian chief, and finally meets his youngest son ( Larry Hagman ) in Los Angeles, where he tutors children and is invited to room with a friendly widow.
One night Garcia invited McKernan onstage to play harmonica and sing the blues.
On 13 January 1877, Bell demonstrated his instruments to Henry at the Smithsonian Institution and Henry invited Bell to demonstrate them again that night at the Washington Philosophical Society.
In addition to its famous parade, the Rex Organization also holds a private ball for its membership and invited guests on Mardi Gras night.
Jeanne Antoinette was invited to a royal masked ball at the Palace of Versailles on the night of 25 to 26 February 1745, one of the many fêtes given to celebrate the marriage of the Dauphin Louis de France ( 1729 – 65 ) to the Infanta Maria Teresa of Spain ( 1726 – 46 ).
This meal could last until late in the night, especially if guests were invited, and would often be followed by a comissatio ( a round of drinks ).
In 2010, Twelfth Night were invited to headline the Friday night of the V Night of The Prog festival at Loreley, with Marillion headlining the Saturday night.
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