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He was a fool, for we took his mutton as we wanted it, night-times, and packed our stores from the nearest township, a hundred and eighty miles off.
The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller
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I don't know what I should have done only Lizzie and I now and then got a dress to make for a neighbour or some sewing to do, night-times.
The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller
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It may not be omitted that certain wicked women ... being seduced by the illusion of devils, believe and profess that in the night-times they ride abroad with Diana, the goddess of the Pagans, or else with Herodias, with an innumerable multitude, upon certain beasts, and pass over many countries and nations in the silence of the night, and do whatsoever those fairies or ladies command.
The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
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At night-times the slaves were called in to attend, but in the mornings they had to be at their work whilst their master did the praying.
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My boy got terrible 'feared of they sarjints, for he heard mun use rough words, ay, and more than words, to our men, and more than once he thought the sarjint was speaking to he, and clinged to me tight, poor little soul; and night-times he would wake and cry that the sarjint was come for mun.
The Drummer's Coat 1896
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It was a long way to go, but we walked on day after day till we got nigh to the moor, when I chose my road very careful and walked night-times only till we come to this house.
The Drummer's Coat 1896
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How many hours, forenoons and afternoonshow many exhilarating night-times I have hadperhaps June or July, in cooler airriding the whole length of Broadway, listening to some yarn, (and the most vivid yarns ever spun, and the rarest mimicry) or perhaps I declaiming some stormy passage from Julius Cæsar or Richard, (you could roar as loudly as you chose in that heavy, dense, uninterrupted street-bass.)
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How many hours, forenoons and afternoons -- how many exhilarating night-times I have had -- perhaps June or July, in cooler air-riding the whole length of
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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So there was forthwith horrid shriekings at night-times, red and green lights shone through the windows, and, finally, a large green ghost, with a white beard and a serpent's tail, came every midnight to a front window, and shook his fist, and howled at those who passed by.
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The issue arose when abutters of the new recreational facility at First Baptist Church on Parker Street complained of noise, bright lights and traffic problems during night-times games at the facility.
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