nightbound

If you saw the Coen brothers' version of True Grit last year, you'll remember a riveting scene at the heart of the movie, in a nightbound cabin on the prairie, that hinges on the slow, painful death of an outlaw called Moon, brilliantly played by Gleeson.

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The chill had his teeth chattering…but a pale hairball was afloat in the nightbound ocean.

Burning Tower Larry Niven 2005

The chill had his teeth chattering…but a pale hairball was afloat in the nightbound ocean.

Burning Tower Larry Niven 2005

With every step experiences that had grown dim and colourless came flooding back, the thunder of a seafight, the rush of a nightbound forest in storm, the voices and faces of friends.

The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992

No other word for it; not a cloud, not wisps, just a single sudden wall, the way it looks when you come up against it on a nightbound motorway with too much on the clock and brakes squealing into lock.

The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992

Across its nightbound bulk thin fireworms crawled, seams of steam puffed out, threads of red and greyish white that traced the rugged cliff like livid veins - rivulets of glowing lava and steaming mud-ash, scouting the path for the lethal floods at their heels, ready to rain down upon the land.

The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992

So they must have arrived, he thought, and slid down from Lwi's back, sore, and dizzy, and suddenly perceiving a stone wall and a gateway in the darkness of the nightbound trees.

The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992

So they must have arrived, he thought, and slid down from Lwi's back, sore, and dizzy, and suddenly perceiving a stone wall and a gateway in the darkness of the nightbound trees.

The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992