Some of the officers seized the implements of the gang, while others collared the delinquents, and marched them through the streets to the nearest police station, where they were thrust into a dungeon and locked up for the night.

Whenever there was a sick animal in the house, no matter if it was only the tame rat, she would get up two or three times in the night, to see if there was anything she could do to make it more comfortable.

The night wore along without relief.

It was on Sarrion's face that the night's work had left its mark.

Several, like Baudin, were going to pass the night there.

Her governess tells me she rises in the night to pray."

Had the adventure occurred in the night, our destruction must have been inevitable, as the ship was sailing under heavy canvas, within a single point of the wake of one of the icebergs, which was drifting before a stiff breeze.

When they heard the shout, being afraid lest they should be stopped in the night and obliged to engage under their baggage, or lest they should be confined in the narrow roads by Caesar's horse, they put a stop to their march and kept their forces in their camp.

He had looked at her 'like that' on the very first day of their acquaintance, in his office at Turnhill, and again at the house in Lessways Street, and again in the newspaper office, and on other occasions, and again on the night of their arrival at Brighton.

And I made her to promise that she keep a very keen harking, the which was like that she should do, and to call me on the instant that she did perceive any unease in the night.

At one o'clock in the morning the moon sank and the night became very dark.

And 'tis strange what women and children will conceive unto themselves, if they go over a churchyard in the night, lie, or be alone in a dark room, how they sweat and tremble on a sudden.

We had come in response to the usual card of invitation, whichas you knowwe have come to consider as a sure prelude to a good story; and now, after telling us the short incident of the Three Straw Platters, he had lapsed into a contented silence, and the night not half gone, as I have hinted.

Our men brought all the beasts into the court-yard of the khan at Konia, the evening before our departure, so that no more were stolen during the night.

Sunday, December 18.In the night it fell calm and the floes opened out.

CHAPTER XII THE NIGHT That night, Josephine St. Auban did not sleep.

I shall always call your hair 'dark as the night of disunion and separation'isn't that what the oriental poet called it?and your face, to me, always, always, always, will be 'fair as the days of union and delight.'

The night was as keen as the edge of a newly-ground sword; breath froze on the coat-lapels in snow; the nose became without sensation, and the eyes wept bitterly because the horses were in a hurry to get home; and whirling through air at zero brings tears.

Next morning at eight o'clock Winther appeared at his mother-in-law's door, saying that he had forgotten something of importance in the great hall the night before.

Even Katy roused herself to listen, and strained her eyes against the blackness of the night to discover what it might be.

It had burned slowly, through the night, and the fire had broken out at one end, which now glowed like a furnace, and illuminated the whole room with a faint red light.

As the night was warm, every window was thrown open; chandeliersscintillating like jeweled fountainshung from the ceilings; wax-lights innumerable, in gilded sconces, were grouped upon the walls; crimson-silk curtains cast a ruddy glare across the street, and the sound of harps and violins floated through the night air.

The night was not yet wholly in possession.

The night being fine, we enjoyed our bivouac upon the top of a sandhill, near the sea, by the side of a dead Pandanus, which served as firewoodalthough it was judged expedient to keep watch by turns, and go the rounds occasionally, especially after the setting of the moon and before daybreak.

" Then Anne told him all the strange adventure of Portchester Castle, and even of the apparition of the night before.