night-hawks

Sam insulated himself from the pilgrims inside a small group of younger bloods, whom he called the “Quaker City night-hawks,”14 and, much later in his book, the “sinners.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Sam insulated himself from the pilgrims inside a small group of younger bloods, whom he called the “Quaker City night-hawks,”14 and, much later in his book, the “sinners.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

The place was inhabited sparsely by three or four bleak and half-frozen night-hawks.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

"Maybe she thinks it's night-hawks pecking at the window," suggested Bob.

Bob the Castaway Frank V. Webster

At four in the morning night-hawks are abed, and even the convicts had ceased working on the Gloriette.

Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats

Then innumerable night-hawks uttered their four musical notes in endless succession, upon the heights, down in the woods, from the mainland mountain.

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

With the departure of Kakusuké, the chief of the "night-hawks" turned at once to his aides.

The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)

A hurried word of command; the infantry halt; the cavalry close, and sweep down like night-hawks upon the sleeping village, -- safe, one would have supposed it, with the whole Parliamentary army lying between it and

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 Various

Toémon, dragging his body over the _tatami_ to the _zen_ (low table) at which was seated this autocrat of the night-hawks, this receiver of the refuse and worn-out goods of his greater brothers in the trade.

The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)

Honjo [u], the brothel keeper and chief of the night-hawks, to whom he has sold for life service as a street harlot the Lady O'Iwa, wife of the

The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)