nocturnal

• “She'd been researching what she called "nocturnal pressing spirit attacks," or what scientific literature called sleep paralysis.”

  Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion

• “Neighbors ... said they wouldn't rest until the large black snake, which appears to be nocturnal, is no longer free.”

  Boing Boing

• ““The use of unguents and eye-powders and the dust of the road and the undesigned swallowing of saliva and the emission of seed in nocturnal pollution or at the sight of a strange woman and blooding and cupping; none of these things vitiates the fast.””

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Madame Delmare had all the superstitions of a nervous, sickly Creole; certain nocturnal sounds, certain phases of the moon were to her unfailing presages of specific events, of impending misfortunes, and the night spoke to that dreamy, melancholy creature a language full of mysteries and phantoms which she alone could understand and translate according to her fears and her sufferings.”

  Indiana

• “Both Sir Heinz Schorlin and Jungfrau Elizabeth Ortlieb kept their word and joined each other here -- to their extreme amazement, I should suppose, as to my knowledge they never met before -- to receive me, and thus had an interview which, however loudly they may contradict it, I call a nocturnal meeting.”

  In the Fire of the Forge — Complete

• “Elizabeth Ortlieb kept their word and joined each other here -- to their extreme amazement, I should suppose, as to my knowledge they never met before -- to receive me, and thus had an interview which, however loudly they may contradict it, I call a nocturnal meeting.”

  In the Fire of the Forge — Volume 02

• “Ortlieb kept their word and joined each other here -- to their extreme amazement, I should suppose, as to my knowledge they never met before -- to receive me, and thus had an interview which, however loudly they may contradict it, I call a nocturnal meeting.”

  Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works

• “It was not just the pain in his arthritic knees, which he ruefully referred to as his nocturnal visitor, that kept Fr.”

  Simon & Schuster: I’ll Walk Alone

• “A little more than two weeks ago, after 20 years of keeping dozens of hives on his nearly four acres on Plain Road, Harp suffered the first of what apiarists call a nocturnal "bear hit.”

  Lance Mannion:

• “He calls his nocturnal Internet friends the Black Road.”

  Trust Me-Jeff Abbott « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews

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