Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A walk in the evening or night.
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Examples
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Such breakfast as he had, he took at the comfortless public-house where he had parted from Riderhood on the occasion of their night-walk.
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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The first thing I did, on my own account, when I came back, was to take a night-walk to Norwood, and, like the subject of a venerable riddle of my childhood, to go 'round and round the house, without ever touching the house', thinking about Dora.
David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917
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“Madcap Violet” appeared, all the unknown personages of that night-walk at Camberwell were straightway revealed to me.
Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 Reid, Stuart J 1905
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Bedient took him for a night-walk over the hills for this.
Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Will Levington Comfort 1905
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I set out on my long night-walk, stumbling over rocks and boulders in the darkness.
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And sure enough, when "Madcap Violet" appeared, all the unknown personages of that night-walk at Camberwell were straightway revealed to me.
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The speaker was Ned Patton, old Patton's son, and Hurd's companion on many a profitable night-walk.
Marcella Humphry Ward 1885
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I had ample leisure for reflection during that long night-walk, and found myself becoming a perfect Young -- Hervey -- Sturm -- what you will, in the way of meditation.
Birds of Prey 1875
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"As Hamlet's ghost said when he was takin 'a night-walk to cool his-self," interposed Simkin.
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Of all the sights which attend a night-walk in a great city, not one attracted my notice.
Basil Wilkie Collins 1856
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