Use nights in a sentence
Sentences ending with nights
- Besides, for two years people have believed that we have abandoned these waters, and the guards think that if we should return, the last time to choose would be these bright nights. [10]
- I no longer wonder at the number of feather-beds at the inns, under which we are apparently expected to sleep even in the warmest nights. [4]
- There are others who exhibit those great qualities as greatly as he does, but only by intervaled distributions of rich moonlight, with stretches of veiled and dimmer landscape between; whereas Howells's moon sails cloudless skies all night and all the nights. [5]
- The old man was uneasy when he had lain down, and begged that Nell would come and sit at his bedside as she had done for so many nights. [12]
- The time Hildebrand was so low with the pneumonia Emmeline and me were all, alone with him most of the time and we never took a minute's sleep for as much as two days, and nights. [5]
- And what mystery was it that sent him here this night of all nights? [9]
- However, his healthy vigor kept him lingering for many days and nights. [10]
- Jim was laid up for four days and nights. [5]
- Some will say twenty-five nights. [5]
- We shall long to be weary of it all again--its vast nakedness, its shimmering heat, its cold, star-studded nights. [4]
Sentences containing nights two or more times
- To the one, nights spent in dancing had seemed made of minutes instead of hours; to the other, those selfsame nights had been like all other nights of dungeon life and seemed made of slow, dragging weeks instead of hours and minutes. [5]
- I was never in Quincy but one day and two nights while Know-Nothing lodges were in existence, and you were with me that day and both those nights. [7]
More example sentences with the word nights in them
- As I wrote you, he sat up both nights, with Preston--he could not be induced to leave the room. [9]
- Bless me, if you had gone along there some such nights after twelve you might have seen as many as fifteen of us roosting on one limb, with our joints rattling drearily and the wind wheezing through our ribs! [5]
- She worries, and worries, and worries; and wakes nights, and lies so, thinking--that is, worrying; worrying about you. [5]
- It is quite within the possibilities that two or three nights like that night of mine could drive a man to suicide. [5]
- He said the witches was pestering him awful these nights, and making him see all kinds of strange things, and hear all kinds of strange words and noises, and he didn't believe he was ever witched so long before in his life. [5]
- He said, "That which I have seen, in that one little moment, will never go out from my memory, but will abide there; and I shall see it all the days, and dream of it all the nights, till I die. [5]
- Three nights ago when she fainted and went ill to bed, I stayed with her, slept in the same room, in the bed beside hers. [11]
- Ahead of her were the lights of the Chippering Mill, in her ears was the rhythmic sound of the looms working of nights on the Bradlaugh order. [9]
- The waiting days were so long, the sleepless nights of uncertainty were so weary. [4]
- The insurrectionary troop were locked into an open court upon bread and water, and as the usual room of detention of the establishment was too small for them all, for two nights they had had to sleep in a loft on thin straw mats. [10]
- Literally the nights were filled with music, and the only cares that infested the day appeared in the anxious faces of the mothers as the campaign became more intricate and uncertain. [4]
- So the next weeks passed in a constant alternation of oppressive fears and aspiring hopes, the nights in torturing terrors. [10]
- If by accident we wake at two in the morning a couple of nights in succession, we have need to be uneasy, for another repetition can turn the accident into a habit; and a month's dallying with whiskey --but we all know these commonplace facts. [5]
- A week later we shall reach Wellington; talk there 3 nights, then sail back to Australia. [5]
- Tom said we was right in the midst of the Arabian Nights now. [5]
- Although the month was March, it was one of those wonderful still nights that sometimes come in the mountain-country when the wind is silent in the notches and the stars seem to burn nearer to the earth. [9]
- The East Side was left pretty much to itself, now that the winter philanthropists had gone away, and was enjoying its summer nights and its irresponsible poverty. [4]
- He forgot it was he who had left her room, and had set up his own tabernacle, because his hours differed from hers, and because she tossed in her bed at nights, and that made him restless too. [11]
- John York's journal was a thing to sit up nights to read. [11]
- Behind the fountain was a sort of cupboard--suggestive of the Arabian Nights, which Janet had never read--from which, occasionally, the fat proprietor emerged bearing Turkish coffee or long Turkish pipes. [9]
- Generly it was very still in the Desert nights, but this time there was music. [5]
- At first I usen't to sleep at nights, thinkin' of Clint, an' missin' him, an' I got shaky and no good. [11]
- We remained cooped up eight days and nights with that curious crew. [5]
- For one or two nights, I scarcely knew how to get on till morning; and when morning came, I was still haunted with a sense of sickening distress. [14]
- Another had "here two days slept and three nights lain awake," on account of this same "Dr. K." In one place was a picture of Dr. K. hanging on a gallows. [5]
- They inwardly resolved to watch him nights, when opportunity should offer, in the hope of getting a glimpse of his dread master. [5]
- It is pleasant to sleep in the long grass when the nights are summer, and to hang your cradle in the trees. [11]
- If he has to sit up nights to do it, he'll try to get back on O'Ryan. [11]
- And I came to see if you would give me lessons about three nights a week, because I want to take the Harvard examinations next summer. [9]
- It was distinction to be loved by such a man; but it was a much greater distinction to be hated by him, because he loved scores of people; but he didn't sit up nights to hate anybody but me. [5]
- I had little time or inclination for reading fiction; my days were busy ones, and my nights were spent with law books. [9]
- For the first time I perceived, in examining the fruits of the labour of so many days and nights, the vast disproportion between the magnitude of the subject and my untrained powers. [10]
- John had got thus far in his studies, which were apparently arithmetic and geography, but were in reality the Arabian Nights, and other books of high and mighty adventure. [4]
- And so for three days and nights. [5]
- After carefully making these preparations she called Ledscha and repeated that the cords possessed the power of prophecy only on nights when the moon was full, and that she would use another means of looking into the future. [10]
- He probably reached there about two or three o'clock in the morning, after having been afoot among the rocks and glaciers during two days and two nights. [5]
- He spoke of the young man's much admired work on the subject called Sohar, nor did he omit to mention that Gamaliel's nephew was able to foretell the positions of the stars even on future nights. [10]
- He has made the wisdom of our forefathers his own in the course of a long life of laborious days and nights. [10]
- At the entrance the water is illuminated, and there is a pleasant, mild light within: one has there a novel subterranean sensation; but it did not remind me of anything I have seen in the "Arabian Nights. [4]
- And yet-and yet, the thought that I no longer possess the sword of Antony, will give me many sleepless nights. [10]
- Kuni remained under the spell of these delusions for many days and nights. [10]
- Did Janet reca' the simmer nights they had supped here, wi' the bumclocks bizzin' ower the candles? [9]
- September had waned, the nights were cooling, his parishioners were returning from the East. [9]
- If you knew the nights I have lain awake thinking about you two, or you three! [4]
- In past nights the Magian Serapion had caused him to see and hear much that was incomprehensible. [10]
- But what of the long nights when husband and wife have lain side by side? [9]
- But this was the land of the Arabian Nights, this was India! [5]
- On other nights the illumination of the shore of the Bruchium rendered it as bright as day. [10]
- The third night the house was crammed again--and they warn't new-comers this time, but people that was at the show the other two nights. [5]
- And there were the days when he rode alone, the nights when he read or wrote alone, when her joy was turned to misery; there were the alternating periods of passion and alienation. [9]
- The picture of the days and nights she had now spent for weeks with the old lady, presented in vivid characters a mixture of great and petty troubles, external and mental humiliations. [10]
- It is just the beginning of winter, and although the days are hot, the nights are cool. [5]
- The wishing-carpet of the Arabian Nights was a sensible idea--but our earthly idea of angels flying these awful distances with their clumsy wings was foolish. [5]
- The physician in the Arabian Nights made his patient play at ball with a bat, the hollow handle of which contained drugs of marvellous efficacy. [6]
- The one thing that she has prayed for through the long nights is that she might see you once again and obtain your forgiveness. [9]
- We lived in that old cabin, and he always locked the door and put the key under his head nights. [5]
- Bob went into that little room where Jethro and Cynthia had spent so many nights together, and his glance flew straight to the picture on the wall,--the portrait of Cynthia Wetherell in crimson and seed pearls, so strangely set amidst such surroundings. [9]
- Back in Hartford, sweating and suffering through sleepless nights, he wrote Howells his anguish. [5]
- Every Other Week supplies the long-felt want that's been grinding round in New York and keeping it awake nights ever since the war. [8]
- Then came the sugaring, the warm days and the freezing nights when the earth stirs in her sleep and the taps drip from red sunrise to red sunset. [9]
- He could not suffer from heat, and three or four heavy army blankets would make the cold nights comfortable. [5]
- Doubt and fear, subservient to her will, no longer gave her sleepless nights and tortured days. [13]
- I think the story of the Trojan War made a deeper impression upon me than even the Arabian Nights. [10]
- On cold and stormy winter nights, to the traveler wearily dragging along in his creaking sleigh, the light from its windows suggests a house of refuge and the cheer of a blazing fire. [4]
- True, she was still weak, and the headache spoiled whole days and nights. [10]
- These travelers had spent wakeful nights, in the forests, in a cold rain, and never thought of complaining. [4]
- However, he here spends his evenings and nights in special occupations, which must of course be far from beneficial to the health and peace of mind which his office demands. [10]
- Were it not so I should have heard of her own sufferings, of her poor, hunted life from place to place, of countless nights made sleepless by the past. [9]
- Our progress was slow when we came at last to the belvedered plantation houses amongst the orange groves; and as we sat on the wide galleries in the summer nights, we heard all the latest gossip of the capital of Louisiana. [9]
- Though she had slept well during the past few nights, on this one slumber deserted her. [10]
- They had not slept for nights, for the last news they had had of Benn Claridge was from the city of Damascus, and they were full of painful apprehensions. [11]
- I watched there six days and nights, and a very melancholy experience it was. [5]
- Nebenchari had been sitting three days and nights with scarcely any intermission by this sick-bed, and such dreams were the natural consequence. [10]
- But at night, seen from the river where they are columns towering against the sky, all sparkling with light, they are fairylike; they are beauty more satisfactory to the soul and more enchanting than anything that man has dreamed of since the Arabian nights. [5]
- The nights are said to be always cool and bracing. [5]
- After what you said the other day about Mr. Crozier I've had bad nights, and I get nervous thinking. [11]
- These solitary and ruined chambers had their own terrors and enchantments, and for the first nights gave the author little but sinister suggestions and grotesque food for his imagination. [4]
- On the day Rudyard married Jasmine he would have cut off his hand rather than imagine that he would enter his wife's room helpless from drink and singing a song which belonged to loose nights on the Limpopo and the Vaal. [11]
- You see, this room opens right into this back one, and sometimes they're all in one and sometimes in the other; and hot nights they all sleep on the roof when it don't rain. [5]
- I have no right to make his days and nights unhappy, I can do enough unhappiness for the family all by myself. [5]
- But after several restless nights an inspired idea flashed upon Sturgis, and he sprang out of bed delighted. [5]
- Well, lying abed resting up, two days and nights, I have thought over all these talks, and passed them carefully in review. [5]
- She had long regarded as inevitable this acutest phase of her martyrdom, and the long nights of tears when entire paragraphs of the loathed stuff she had burned ran ceaselessly in her mind. [9]
- Still, you too, Ptolimus, bear the crosier, and to you I will confess that your brethren in office, the shepherds of the Jacobite fold, have ruined my peace for hundreds of days and nights, and I have been near to cursing them. [10]
- He had the power of calling up the image of his lost love with as much vividness as the forms of the dead, and indulged in this magic, not only through a hundred still nights, but in long rides and drives through silent wastes. [10]
- In the first place, Captain Bowman's company, with a few scouts, of which Tom was one, set out that very afternoon for the capture of Cohos, or Cahokia, and this despite the fact that they had had no sleep for two nights. [9]
- Wondering what the place was like, I could not sleep of nights. [9]
- It was no place for a man of peace, and I spent two nights at the club. [9]
- I have a pathetic memory of it all--of our little home, of our hopes for it, of our days of labor and nights of planning to make it complete. [9]
- The weeks flew past, the red and yellow leaves began to fall, the scarlet berries of the mountain ash were shrivelled, and the white rime fell of nights on the meadows and moor-land. [10]
- So two years passed,--years liberally interspersed with expeditions into the mountains and elsewhere, and nights spent in the company of Tom Gaylord and others. [9]
- A whisper had passed that, two nights before, the Effendina had sent in haste for a famous Italian physician lately come to Cairo, and that since his visit Kaid had been sullen and depressed. [11]
- Thus came to pass an event in the lives of Uncle Tom and Aunt Mary, that journey to New York (their first) of two nights and two days to fetch Honora. [9]
- Now, with a pang of fear she recalled what Anna had said:--"You're working too hard--you hadn't ought to stay here nights. [9]
- The situation here, outside the town, was very pleasant, and from the river's bank he might observe the comet which had been visible for some nights past--a portent of evil no doubt. [10]
- If to amuse or forget himself he had caroused far more nights in succession in Alexandria, why should he not keep awake when the object in question was to wrest a young life from the grasp of death? [10]
- According to the old regulations, they were without roofs, but as many deaths and much sickness had occurred among the workmen in consequence of the cold nights, they had been slightly sheltered with palm-branches brought from the oasis of the Alnalckites, at no great distance. [10]
- It was one of those torturing kinds of lovely summer nights when you hear various kinds of noises now and then. [5]
- It was one of those March nights when winter seems to wish to resume its sway and scatters its last snows and storms with desperate fury. [2]
- I saw one of them a few nights ago. [5]
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