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Her favorite line, Spruce later reported, was “Die, you English dog, that we may have a merry watch-night with your dollars!”

One River Wade Davis 1996

Her favorite line, Spruce later reported, was “Die, you English dog, that we may have a merry watch-night with your dollars!”

One River Wade Davis 1996

Finally last New Year's Eve, at the watch-night service led by Anna herself, among those who openly took their stand for

Notable Women of Modern China Margaret E. Burton

The Wesleyans kept "watch-night" in all their chapels on the night of the 31st July.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

[201] In reality they hold a primitive watch-night service; their welcome of the new moon being very similar to our popular welcome of the new year.

Moon Lore Timothy Harley

I also had a watch-night service on New Year's Eve.

The Great War As I Saw It Frederick George Scott 1902

The Saints, I suppose, had watch-night services of their own, for they were conspicuous by their absence.

Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions Thompson, Slason 1901

A young lady telephone operator recently attended a watch-night service and fell asleep during the sermon.

Best Short Stories Thomas L. Masson 1900

Mr. Povey, fascinated, proceeded in the direction of dogs, and it grew more and more evident that Mr. Scales, who went out to parties in evening dress, instead of going in respectable broad - cloth to watch-night services, who knew the great ones of the land, and who kept dogs of an inconvenient sex, was neither an ordinary commercial traveller nor the kind of man to which the

The Old Wives' Tale Arnold Bennett 1899

In making the journey they spent a night at Mr. Joshua Anderson's, near Princeton, where they had a watch-night service, and where there seemed to be a good prospect of a revival of religion.

Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper. 1887