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from The Century Dictionary.
- Wandering or roaming by night.
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Examples
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Scylla the deadly, whom night-wandering Hecate, who is called
The Argonautica 2008
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Since they were already suffering something pretty excruciating, they didn't want to find out what this night-wandering fellow thought of as pain.
Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995
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Caspian shell to make the charm withal, when she had first bathed in seven ever-flowing streams, and had called seven times on Brimo, nurse of youth, night-wandering Brimo, of the underworld, queen among the dead, -- in the gloom of night, clad in dusky garments.
The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius
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On Hallowe'en they were kept burning to safeguard the people from the fear of night-wandering spirits and the dead, so they were called
The Book of Hallowe'en Ruth Edna Kelley
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Scylla the deadly, whom night-wandering Hecate, who is called
The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius
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He then directed the presentation, according to due rites, of offerings unto those night-wandering beings (who live with Mahadeva).
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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And let them not fall in their helplessness into Charybdis lest she swallow them at one gulp, or approach the hideous lair of Scylla, Ausonian Scylla the deadly, whom night-wandering Hecate, who is called Crataeis, [1406] bare to Phoreys, lest swooping upon them with her horrible jaws she destroy the chiefest of the heroes.
The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius
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Awful became the noise of the night-wandering animals.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Yet a bald and decrepit remark like that would have been as bad almost as silence, for it would have ignored the main point at issue -- the night-wandering of his ward.
The Ghost Girl 1907
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But some night-wandering man whose heart was pierced
Poems of Coleridge Arthur Symons 1905
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