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Example sentences for "broad daylight"

  • The manner in which the magic letter was written, in broad daylight and on a piece of paper selected by Moïse himself, seemed of itself something of a miracle.

  • All this was done openly, above the table, in broad daylight.

  • It was hard acting in broad daylight, with the two eager treasure-hunters watching at close range.

  • It's something to find you don't come twice in broad daylight.

  • This was a person with the appearance of a rather dissipated sporting man, who tooled tandem through the village, and pulled up at the ruins in broad daylight.

  • This act was done in broad daylight, when to move was almost certain death.

  • Many of the communications became impassable, and parties had to walk outside them even in broad daylight and in plain view of the enemy's observers.

  • The enemy to the number of 25 charged boldly across the open in broad daylight.

  • Why should he display anxiety on my behalf merely because I was to be the sole occupant of an otherwise empty house for a few minutes more or less,--and in broad daylight too!

  • This dangerous man-eater was at last mortally wounded by the spears of two young men whom it attacked in broad daylight close to a small native village.

  • I once saw a lion chasing four koodoos in broad daylight, though on a cold cloudy morning.

  • As the noise they were making, however, was very great and quite unaccountable by broad daylight, I determined to see what was going on, and galloped in the direction of the strange sounds.

  • Therefore don't be uneasy, madame; she never goes out alone except in broad daylight, and then only as far as the gate of Conches.

  • You'll see that when a keeper is sent to the shades there won't be one of them willing to stay even in broad daylight to watch us.

  • I try not to meddle in Michaud's affairs, but I do know that he distrusts the peasants so much that he goes armed, even in broad daylight, when he enters the forest.

  • It appeared by writings found there, that the crime was one of revenge: it was supposed to have been committed in broad daylight.

  • The Chancellor had passed, but in broad daylight, and they were afraid in consequence to stop him.

  • It made a new folklore; revivified the inner atmosphere of mountains and forests; set the fairies dancing; raised Yellow Crane Pagodas to mark the spot where Wang Tzu-chiao flew on the Crane to heaven in broad daylight.

  • He was arrested in Rome by Domitian, and tried on charges of sorcery and treason; and is said to have escaped his sentence and execution by the simple expedient of vanishing in broad daylight in court.

  • The sitting was held in broad daylight, and the table was so placed that the Medium was seated with her back to a window, affording sufficient light for the experiment.

  • After the traveller has written home to everybody once by broad daylight at ten o'clock, the fun of the thing is over: normal sleepiness begins to hunger for its rights, and dissatisfaction takes the place of wondering amusement.

  • One day, in broad daylight, there suddenly appeared, before the younger sister, the shape of a man in sailor's dress.

  • If I went to her in broad daylight, every one would see me.

  • And meanwhile the comet drew steadily nearer to the earth, growing bigger and bigger, and in shape it exactly resembled a Turkish scimitar; at last it was quite visible in broad daylight.

  • I saw that, but for the life of me I could not conceive what her object was in coming masquerading like this through the streets of Buda in broad daylight.

  • Over such a desert I had ridden from the fort, and the Indians assured me that, even in broad daylight, I could not go back safely without a guide.

  • And indeed, seen in broad daylight, with every rock standing out pitilessly clear, and every chasm yawning wide, the place was enough to daunt the spirit of the bravest.

  • Why, even I would not venture to cross that terrible place, except in broad daylight with a trusty guide.

  • The result of this (coupled with another fact which will be stated presently) is that the planet may often be easily seen in broad daylight, and sometimes casts a sensible shadow at night.

  • The body of Venus being also very much larger and brighter than the body of Mercury, it may be more often and more easily detected in broad daylight.

  • I wouldn't go in there in broad daylight.

  • Yet here is a plain tale of how not one but two of the western fraternity saw a genuine ghost in broad daylight a few years ago.

  • At the theater I found them amid the crowd of yelling jhampanies; outside the club veranda, after a long evening of whist; at the birthday ball, waiting patiently for my reappearance; and in broad daylight when I went calling.

  • I passed not a night, but three hours in broad daylight alone in that house.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    barge carrier; brick house; broad arrow; broad base; broad belt; broad daylight; broad expanse; broad flat; broad gauge; broad sense; broad smile; broadcast station; broadcast stations; broadly ovate; coming from the west; compare the; could find; did the; eldest brother; free will; her chair; many talents; more closely; murmured the; violent death; would write