The damsels of London spent their evenings in dancing before their masters' doors, and the country lasses danced upon the village green.
Here he spent his evenings during the great frosts, and called it his "winter drawing-room.
D---- is in the mountains, and the evenings there are cold in October.
It was a few evenings after, that Henry Grove and his sister called in to see uncle Absalom and aunt Abigail, who were of the old school, and rather ultra-puritanical in their habits and notions.
His evenings are either spent in reading or dozing at home, or with a neighbor at checkers.
A fewevenings only elapsed before Clinton called upon Miss Edgar, and from that time visited her regularly.
It seemed scarcely possible that they were the two people who had stood, delighting in each other's companionship, on the high ridge of the Sahara desert two evenings ago, that it was this man to whom she had told her wonderful dream.
The romance always left off at a thrilling point; sometimes it took three evenings to finish it.
The long twilight evenings seemed the loneliest hours to her in London.
Do you, Mr. Arbuthnot, always spend yourevenings like this?
Every hour of days and evenings was given to conferences, committee meetings, reports from committees and States and the practical preparations for entering upon what all felt was the last stage of the long contest.
The program for two evenings was given up to men and women from that State under the heading, Colorado Speaks for Itself, and it was most appropriate that Miss Anthony should preside.
Several evenings were largely devoted to addresses by delegates from other countries; one by Public School Inspector James L.
Interesting State reports, conferences and addresses filled the mornings, afternoons and evenings of this unparalleled week.
This train of thought was suggested to us a few evenings ago, by the conduct of a party of eight or ten individuals, who meet periodically for the purpose of philosophical inquiry.
He spent his winter evenings reading mechanical and scientific journals; he cared little for general literature, but machinery in any form was almost a pathological obsession.
You'll have to come back with them, Miss Chase," said Bob a few evenings before the great departure.
On Thursday evenings Mr. Pretyman was an Oddfellow.
I took a lodging au troisieme in the Faubourg St. Honore, and for a fortnight walked Paris without an attempt at concealment, frequenting the cafes, and spending my evenings at the theatre.
The evenings are lengthening, and you will have plenty of time.
He had not come out to keep holiday, and an unfinished manuscript waited for him in his lodgings--an address on True Manliness, to be delivered two eveningshence in the Mission Room to lads under eighteen.
Carl, you have no idea how much he is engaged; the rehearsals are to be every other day, and the rest of the evenings he has been worried into accepting invitations.
He used to come round to my house just before supper-time in the evenings and we'd sit on the porch and talk, or maybe I'd go round to his porch.
In a grocery that kept open evenings he got two pounds of corn meal, two pounds of flour, a pound of bacon, a half pound of butter, six eggs and a can of condensed milk.
So the days and the evenings and nights went by, and the greater rains followed the lesser.
Cornelio and the Padre, as the only "gente de razon" in the place, generally spent their evenings together.
All day the sea and its inhabitants yielded us endless amusement; the evenings were gorgeous with tropical sunsets and the nights revealed a brilliancy and glory in moon and stars that surpassed all my imaginings.
Thus passed our days, and the evenings were even longer and more wearisome.
Most of the men passed their evenings in gambling at cards, but the women appeared to have absolutely no occupation of a rational kind.
But in the evenings the place was quite deserted, and so lonely that at times we fancied that we could hear the wolves howling in the forest of St. Pierre.
It was in the evenings mostly, when she came home from her work and he was free to spend an hour or two with her.
Of afternoons and eveningsthey played an infinitesimal game of draw poker.
I have never yet sat on deck without a cloth jacket or shawl, and the evenings are chilly.
We shall be still three weeks before we reach the Cape; and now the sun sets with a sudden plunge before six, and the evenings are growing too cold again for me to go on deck after dinner.
It is no wonder that Mrs. Barbauld found theevenings she spent with her publisher lively.
During her stay in George Street," he says in a note referring to her, "she spent many of her afternoons and most of her evenings with me.
It would be distinctly perverting the truth to say that, at the time, we enjoyed the whole of our expedition, but often have I during winter evenings recalled that climb.
Such evenings compensate one for many a wet, dreary day spent amongst the mountains.
So I do my ten hours a day, and have evenings and Sundays for the things I like.
She read the Bible to him, selecting consolatory passage with the aid of a concordance, in the evenings after he had been lifted into bed for the night.
I drop into her store two evenings a week to see her.
Now, he thought he could tell whether it was to be one of Lorry's evenings or not.
Two evenings ago I went to Mercer's Hotel to inquire for Mr. Tollemache.
From time to time the number of evenings devoted to study was gradually increased, until every week-day evening was occupied.
The discussion lasted several evenings as to who was fit, what the delegates would be required to do, and what they would be paid.
Even the intelligence of the University assembled there; literary evenings were established.
The long autumn evenings were turned into genuine literary sessions.
A couple ofevenings later when at an advanced hour he had put out the light and lain down in bed, he heard some voice singing a melancholy song in Italian.
Let me off this one time more, and I will devote the next three evenings of your father's visit to him and to you.
When you (most properly) insisted on my giving up some of my evenings to him, you necessarily made it impossible for me to appear on the stage.
Two evenings since--to give you a melancholy example of what I mean--I was in my cabin, when I heard the alarm of a man overboard.
To have lonely days, longer lonely evenings when the dreariness of winter set in.
They were still paying attention to business and devoting the evenings to pleasure.
Patty adhered to her plan of giving the enlisted men evenings of real pleasure, and entertainment that was enjoyable to educated and cultured minds.
The Monday evenings planned for the enjoyment of the boys in uniform began to take shape and rapidly acquired considerable proportions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "evenings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
