112 Metaphors for night

I'd haunt 'im,' ses the ordinary seaman; 'every night of 'is life I'd stand afore 'im dripping with water and moaning.'

The night before we left there was a torrential tropic downpour.

The night itself was a perfect reproduction of his own mind.

The night is te po or te rui, and the moment before the sun rises marumaru ao.

The nights in that climate and season were much the pleasantest portions of the four-and-twenty hours.

But for all, this night of golden dreams was a respite, and Jerusalem the symbol and Jerusalem the symbolised were one.

The next night was Friday, and Betty welcomed the prospect of the second degree necessary to stamp the freshmen as full-fledged members of the Mysterious For.

But her nights were yet restless and her nerves throbbing from the effects of past dissipations.

For until now, whatever wrought Against my sweet desires, My days were smitten harps strung taut, My nights were slumbrous lyres.

" "A first night at the Lyceum" was an institution.

This night is their conjunction.

CHAPTER 6 The bed on which Bull Hunter reposed his bulk that night was not the cot to which he was shown by his host.

The night was mild and innocent of ill; 'Twas but a sleeping day that breathed low, And babbled in its sleep.

The night was still, the sky a wonderland of stars.

That brief and illuminating episode in Wain's had merely confirmed an impression that had slowly grown upon her, and her outburst of feeling that night had only been the overflowing of shamed anger at herself for letting his magnetic personality make so deep an impression on her that she could admit to him that she cared.

The night was mysteriously still, unbroken, even the air motionless.

Were I with thee, Wild nights should be Our luxury!

We have had comparatively little aurora of late, but last night was an exception; there was a good display at 3 A.M. P.M.Just before lunch the sunshine could be seen gilding the floe, and Ponting

The night that followed was cloudless, with a white moon and brilliant stars.

" No. 45: "Since youth (rolls on) like the rapids of a river, the days speed away and the nights cannot be checkedmy daughter!

My breath is easier, my nights are quieter, and my legs are less in bulk, and stronger in use.

The night was fast closing in, and the last retiring beams of the sun shed a mournful light over an extensive tract of forest bordering upon the district of the Hartz, just as (but I must not forget the date, somewhere about the year 1547,) the Baron Rudolf found himself in the very disagreeable predicament of having totally lost his companions and his way, amidst an almost interminable region of forest and brushwood.

Life is a dream between two slumbers; sleep is death's twin-brother; night is the shadow of death; death is the gate of life:such is the mysterious mythology wrought by the sculptor of the modern world in marble.

Oh, how tender those nights was Silencieux!

Opposite Coningsby at dinner that night was a portrait which greatly attracted his attention.

112 Metaphors for  night