We thought that we should be able to sample only two workhouses after the first night, expecting to be detained two nights at each.
When it was the Five Hundred and Fifty-first Night, Quoth Dunyazad, "O sister mine, an thou be other than sleepy do tell us some of thy pleasant tales.
On first night of the news plaintiff was quite delirious; took six plates of alamode beef, and two pots of porter.
A comedy without mystery is Punch without a joke; Yates without a speech to the audience on a first night; or Bartley's pathos without a pocket-handkerchief.
His numerous admirers attended a first night at his theatre in a mood of comfortable anticipation, assured of something pleasant and frothy with a good deal of bright dialogue and not too much plot.
It struck her from time to time that darling Otie was perhaps a shade unresponsive, but she put this down to the nervous strain inseparable from a first night of a young author's first play.
You can't tell from a first night audience," said Mr Pilkington sombrely, giving out a piece of theatrical wisdom he had picked up at rehearsals.
Etienne, performing before Dinah, had all the success of a first night.
Madame de la Baudraye is figged out as if for a first night," said he --une premiere, the slang abbreviation for a first performance.
Dinah, who had never been at a first night's performance, was very full of natural curiosity.
A suspicion crossed my mind, marshaling a host of doubts and questions that had lurked there since my first night at Glenarm.
Bates had not mentioned Morgan or referred even remotely to the pistol-shot of my first night, and he had certainly conducted himself as a model servant.
The shot through the window the first night he was here seemed to shake him a trifle, but he’s quite settled down now, I should say, sir.
She was uneasy if I missed a rehearsal, and had been almost panic-stricken when once or twice during our preliminary tour I had missed a first night in an important city.
We want to see this new piece at the Harmony so much; a first night to us quiet clerical folks, you know, is always such a treat.
And Gerald Deganway, who never missed a first night, simpering falsetto congratulations.
In thanking him, she suggested a night for dining together on her return; and Eric spent three days that were as restless and insupportable as the three hours before a first night.
Every reserved seat in the house was sold for Claude's first night.
In the first newspaper, a very important one, he positively could not find any criticism of the Regent's first night.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "first night" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
