Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The time of night.
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Examples
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Full happy were we then in the early night-season, for the water of might gave them strength also, as to us, and healed all the stripes and wounds their bodies had suffered of the foul witch, and made their eyes bright, and their cheeks full and firm, and their lips most sweet, and their hands strong and delicious.
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Good Zita Carapresa, never molest your selfe for me, because I lodge to mine owne contentment, and so much the rather, in regard that whensoever I list: I can convert my Mule into a faire young woman, to give mee much delight in the night-season, and afterward make her a Mule againe: thus am
The Decameron 2004
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O my God, I will cry to Thee in the day-time, and Thou wilt not hear; and in the night-season, and it is not for want of understanding in me.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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O my God, I will cry to Thee in the day-time, and Thou wilt not hear; and in the night-season, and it is not for want of understanding in me. '
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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If any illiterate juggler shall have foretold a year of darkness, alluding, namely, to the night-season of the year, the consternation is as great as if Hannibal were at the gates of the city.
A Dissertation on Divine Justice 1616-1683 1967
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Here in the night-season -- the season of darkness and of awful gloom -- we stood in this land of woe; and not one single sign appeared of life save the life that we had brought with us.
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder James De Mille
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Here, we were to breakfast, there, dine, and this hostelrie was to be honored with our sojourn during the night-season.
International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 Various
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"Allah, who sends the fire-fly to illuminate the night-season, can discover secret crimes by the most contemptible means."
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
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The Italian artist -- the night-season is for sleep.
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And in the silence of the night-season he beheld a great light to cover the place, and he heard angels hymning and watching even until the morn around the tomb of the buried leper.
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