night-ride

With all celerity I made my preparations, and, not without considerable difficulty and some danger, we made a rapid night-ride to the Lodge, a distance of five miles at least.

The Purcell Papers 2003

He couldn't imagine why she had suddenly taken it into her head to go for a long night-ride!

Five Are Together Again Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1966

Burr interrupted the conversation to pay them the compliments of the morning, -- to inquire for their health, and hope they suffered no inconvenience from their night-ride from the party; then, seeing the

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

Whilst the Major satisfied the keen appetite which his night-ride had given him, Count Villabuena restlessly paced the room, his features wearing an expression of anxiety and annoyance.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various

Follow Nehemiah in his lonely night-ride as he makes his solitary circuit around the broken walls.

Report of Commemorative Services with the Sermons and Addresses at the Seabury Centenary, 1883-1885. Diocese Of Connecticut

Frank Barrington was to tell wryly in the grillroom of that night-ride in the sleety wind through a polar world of ghostly, ice-hung trees.

Kenny Leona Dalrymple

As she lay in bed, at last, utterly weary and exhausted, the recollection of all the horror and anxiety that had followed upon the discovery of Molly's flight fell away from her, and she was only conscious that had it not been for that wild night-ride which Molly's danger had compelled, she would never have known that Garth loved her.

The Hermit of Far End Margaret Pedler

Ambulances crammed with wounded who had been picked up hurriedly from the churches and barns which had been used as hospitals, joined the stampede, and for many poor lads whose heads had been broken by the German shells and whose flesh was on fire with frightful wounds, this night-ride was a highway of torture which ended in eternal rest.

The Soul of the War Philip Gibbs 1919

Upon the settee in the new constabulary residence, his long legs doubled up ridiculously, still in khaki breeches and blue flannel army shirt, lay "Skim," with a week's growth of beard upon his face, sleeping after a night-ride over country roads.

The Great White Tribe in Filipinia 1914

This night-ride would be her cherished secret until Frederick gave her permission to tell Daddy

The Secret of the Storm Country Grace Miller White 1912