Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The practices of the night-riders.
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Examples
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Two night-riding Mitsubishi Bettys from Iwo Jima attacked Isley Field, Saipan, reducing a B-29 to rubble and damaging eleven more before getting away cleanly.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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Children imagine monsters, wide-eyed fairies, flying pigs and sled-pulling, night-riding reindeer; they see connections and meaning where well-conditioned and socialized adults only see concrete effects and numbers.
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: How to Turn Magical Thinking Into Healing Magic 2010
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Two night-riding Mitsubishi Bettys from Iwo Jima attacked Isley Field, Saipan, reducing a B-29 to rubble and damaging eleven more before getting away cleanly.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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Children imagine monsters, wide-eyed fairies, flying pigs and sled-pulling, night-riding reindeer; they see connections and meaning where well-conditioned and socialized adults only see concrete effects and numbers.
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: How to Turn Magical Thinking Into Healing Magic 2010
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It all started when I realized I could draw while night-riding in a car.
Wow, this is possible on an iPod touch or iPhone? | Sync Blog 2009
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The refined cousin Selden Tilghman drives his palms onto the spikes of a fence to protest mankind's inhumanity and especially the murdering ways of the night-riding, Klan-like Regulators.
An Epic of the Everglades Dirda, Michael 2008
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As the intimidating practice of hooded night-riding spread—and eventually led to more sinister violence against people and property throughout the South—greater Klan organization, its leaders decided, was needed.
Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003
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This will be a conference inspired by recognition that the machette-wielding mass killer in central Africa is as reprehensible as the night-riding Ku Klux Klansman who kills in a pack and shoots in the back!
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This will be a conference inspired by recognition that the machette-wielding mass killer in central Africa is as reprehensible as the night-riding Ku Klux Klansman who kills in a pack and shoots in the back!
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When he toured the United States in 1876, he had seen the wretched condition of the freedmen there and the Ku-Kluxism and night-riding and decided to prevent similar conditions in his own land when emancipation came.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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