51 Metaphors for evening

The evening was decidedly the best yet, as both averred, pirouetting and spinning and romping through one fox trot and one step after another.

There was, of course, certain work to be done in connection with the machine-gun department, such as overhauling and cleaning the guns, and drilling the section at intervals; but the evenings and nights were a perfect joy after those spent in the trenches.

The simplicity and openness to be observed and felt that evening was a comforting indication of freedom from party spirit, and those vain disputations which in so many instances keep Christians at a distance, and mar their individual peace as well as usefulness.

Stephen's days were filled with work, and his evenings were his mother's.

So Tutt, though hand and glove in his office with the most notorious of the elite of Longacre Square, came home to supper with the naiveté and innocence of a theological student for whom an evening at a picture show is the height of dissipation.

"Saturday evening was the only evening we could have Marlboro' Chapel, the largest church in the city.

25.The evening of this day was a lively and pleasant scene.

The evening had been to her a light from heavenhow could she find anything to say?

Nine o'clock evening and the bell is tolling for our dearest QueenVictoria, who died this evening just before seven o'clocka grand, wise, good woman.

"To be sure, when my work is done," responded the old man pushing up his spectacles and regarding the boys with kindly eyes; "these light evenings are my delight, as you know.

The evening, too, is the best time for setting right her account of the expenditure, and duly writing a statement of moneys received and paid, and also for making memoranda of any articles she may require for her storeroom or other departments.

Evening is then the boundary common to day and night; and in the same way morning constitutes the approach of night to day.

And Saturday evening was our holiday.

The "dramatic evenings" at his home, in which he read plays aloud before a brilliant gathering, were a feature of social life.

'For those who do not believe that our English home life is composed mainly, if not entirely, of lying, drunkenness, and conjugal infidelity, and its sequel divorce, yester evening at the Queen's Theatre must have been a sad and dismal experience.

Every evening came thus a letter, which he had posted in Bursley on the previous day.

The evening is an emblem of autumn, and autumn of declining life.

Of all things, to the fifth wheel, who is out of it, would not be in if she could, cannot learn, and prefers jackstraws to card games of any sort, an evening of serious whist is the most aggravating.

I think perhaps the evenings must have been the loneliest for her.

Those evenings on which she opened the little piano were the happiest hours of my childhood.

But this eveningthe evening of the day I had met Gideonthere was a girl in church.

Pleasant evenings those seem to me now, as they come floating down on the current of memory from the long past, and dear are the faces of those that made up the tableaux as they were grouped around those winter fires.

The Druids were astronomers, and they divided time, not by the days but nights; a custom as old as any with which we are acquainted, as it appears Genesis i.5: "And the evening and the morning were the first day."

Canal Street that evening was a veritable fairyland.

The evening was balmy, so I invited him into the garden.

51 Metaphors for  evening