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Callot, the brush of Teniers and of Rembrandt, to give a true notion of this night-scene.
A Second Home 2007
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Callot, the brush of Teniers and of Rembrandt, to give a true notion of this night-scene.
A Second Home 2007
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If the night-scene in the kiosk is thus fully accounted for to all perspicacious readers, it was not so to Rosalie, though she derived from it the most dangerous lesson that can be given, that of a bad example.
Albert Savarus 2007
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If the night-scene in the kiosk is thus fully accounted for to all perspicacious readers, it was not so to Rosalie, though she derived from it the most dangerous lesson that can be given, that of a bad example.
Albert Savarus 2007
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Next morning, this night-scene among my dreams seemed like a dream; to make sure of the piteous truth, I was obliged to look fruitlessly under my pillow for the packet of letters.
The Message 2007
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Next morning, this night-scene among my dreams seemed like a dream; to make sure of the piteous truth, I was obliged to look fruitlessly under my pillow for the packet of letters.
The Message 2007
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As to the night-scene, it could not affect the justice, who had been purposely lodged in the farther end of the house, remote from the noise, and lulled with a dose of opium into the bargain.
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The night-scene in the city is very striking for its vastness and loneliness.
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This was the sole flash-eliciting, truth-extorting, rencontre which ever occurred between me and Madame Beck: this short night-scene was never repeated.
Villette 2003
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A night-scene on the coast of Provence gives a specimen of his descriptive powers.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various
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