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GOOD FOR: Nerds, night-owls, and girls who think it matters what your sign is.
10 Creative Dates To Get You Laid On Valentine’s Day | Manolith 2010
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Next up was bowling - a big favorite here, so the local lanes allowed us to have "All Night Bowling" and 180 night-owls came out to play.
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Those stations are gone now, but they were popular with night-owls in those days.
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For night-owls shriek where mounting larks should sing.
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These night-owls have no objection to leaving their traces where they strike, but so far they've avoided being seen, except by their victims.
The Virgin In The Ice Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1982
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Instead of seeking the chop-house, wherein the vivacious and tireless youth of the staff were wont to linger over supper, he turned into a side street and betook himself to a small cafe as yet unfrequented by the night-owls of journalism.
Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels
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The way to the wild forest was haunted with shadows and little fleeing things; and the night-owls called, but she remembered the look in
The Faery Tales of Weir Anna McClure Sholl
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And when darkness had entirely settled over the earth, and the night-owls set up their discordant screams, my fears reached a climax.
Stories and Sketches Harriet S. Caswell
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The good lady almost frightened me as I went in, by her very extraordinary appearance in a tremendous grey gauze turban, fire-new, just arrived by the Henri Quatre packet-ship from Havre, and that gave her exactly the look of one of our Mississippi night-owls.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various
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And when darkness had entirely settled over the earth, and the night-owls set up their discordant screams, my fears reached a climax.
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