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Examples
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But I usually am long gone before night-fall, so who knows what those empty bottles might precipitate?
Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude 2009
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Now, it is one of the delights of June and July, to watch them at night-fall.
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And I remember coming upon Laban, sitting cross-legged in the shade of a wagon and sewing away till night-fall on a new pair of moccasins.
Chapter 13 2010
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About him, till night-fall, persisted a circle of teasers and tormenters.
CHAPTER XVI 2010
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But I usually am long gone before night-fall, so who knows what those empty bottles might precipitate?
Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude 2009
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Near night-fall the storm greatly increased, and our bivouac became most uncomfortable; but spreading my blankets on the snow and covering them with Indian matting, I turned in and slept with that soundness and refreshment accorded by nature to one exhausted by fatigue.
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The second day we crossed the North Fork of the Shenandoah on our pontoon-bridge, and by night-fall reached Lacy's Springs, having seen nothing of the enemy as yet but a few partisans who hung on our flanks in the afternoon.
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By dark the ground was covered with twelve or fifteen inches of fresh snow, and as usual the temperature rose very sensibly while the storm was on, but after night-fall the snow ceased and the skies cleared up.
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We'll all be at each others 'throats by night-fall.
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I moved late in the afternoon, so as not to come within the enemy's view before dark, and after night-fall Hancock's corps passed me and began crossing the pontoon-bridge about 2 o'clock in the morning.
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