The attack on the Russian fortified camp began at two o'clock in the afternoon, in the midst of a violent snowstorm; and by nightfall the whole position was in the hands of the Swedes: the Russian army was annihilated.
By nightfall the Turks were in complete disorder, Vienna was relieved, and the danger was at an end.
And secondly, we could not take up our march before nightfallin any case.
By nightfall we lay close before the small, flat coral islands that lie in front of the entrance to the harbor.
By nightfallthe late defenders of Camp Jackson were all within the walls of the St. Louis arsenal, prisoners of war.
The pursuit was kept up for some three miles beyond the point where the picket guard had been captured, and after nightfall Sherman returned to camp and reported to me by letter what had occurred.
VI After nightfall I followed them; but not to eat or to rest.
Nightfall found them abreast the ruins of Stamford, still holding a fair course about five or six miles off shore.
Either by nightfall he must sight the mountain or he must turn back.
By nightfall he had accumulated enough wire for his tentative experiments.
It was already nightfall when he took his way down the street to his own home.
She put them with the other ten, enclosed them in an envelope, gave them to the waiting postman, and the red-coated courier was before nightfall on his return journey, blowing the while the lustiest blast on his horn.
When we were at the water side we got the lamb and the ewe on board and put out to sea, running all that day before a fair wind which Circe had sent us, and at nightfall entering the deep waters of the river Oceanus.
We agreed to this, and feasted the live-long day to the 23 going down of the sun, but at nightfall Circe took me aside, and told me of the voyage that was before us.
Answered Bahadur, "O my lord, I was busy washing my clothes and knew not of thy being here; for our appointed time was nightfall and not day-tide.
They are conscious together of the subduing spell of nightfall and the quickening joy of daybreak.
Ere nightfall blameless blank sheets marked the spots where the suppressed placards had previously figured.
At nearly nightfall the women, despairing and wailing, had gone home.
It was nearly nightfall when Mose recognized Duke's familiar whistle from the levee.
It was long after nightfall when he wandered in, weary, listless, sorrowful.
An hour after nightfall that evening the Eastern express-train reached the station beyond Berrytown, bringing home Peter and his wife, triumphant.
With every nightfall the wolves slunk down from the mountains and fought over the body outside the gate.
It wasnightfall when the little army entered the outer gate of the Castle of Ploermel and encamped in the broad Bailey yard.
One would think to hear you talk, my Lord Count, that your hardihood was greater than our own, but by our Lady of Rocamadour you will learn before nightfall that it is not so.
At nightfall he went into the churchyard, and seated himself on the grave-mound.
Well, after much wandering and trying every winding in the interminable jumble of hills, we came at last at nightfall on just such a valley as Van Huyn had described.
From nightfall to sunrise at least two persons must remain in the room.
Toward nightfall Nurse Kennedy so far improved that the rigidity of her limbs entirely disappeared.
We set to work at once; and before nightfall had lowered, unhooked, and placed in the positions designated for each by Trelawny, all the great sarcophagi and all the curios and other matters which we had taken with us.
After nightfallthe herbage in the neighbourhood of the bivouac of the invading army was set on fire.
By nightfall we had arrived at a pointed hill, under the brow of which we encamped.
When the trumpets at nightfall recalled the scattered and weary bands of executioners, nothing of the vast army of Darius remained on the plain excepting the spoil and the dead, over whom the jackals snarled and howled.
At nightfall the three slipped out of the camp in the guise of light-armed footmen, each with a round shield at his back, two javelins in his hand, and a short sword at his side.
This expedition returned at nightfall and reported that the wounded and invalid soldiers who had been left in Issus had been cruelly slain by order of Darius and their bodies impaled along the shore.
This is the special pride of the General, and soon after nightfall the musicians appear upon the little plaza around which the tents are grouped.
Supported by the horse batteries, they maintained till nightfall a stubborn fight, which ended in the retreat of the French on Beaumont.
Only eight guns could at first be brought to bear against the enemy's artillery; but nevertheless four Westphalian and Brunswick[69] battalions steadily repelled the French, and by nightfall reached Point du Jour.
By nightfall the French had ceased their resistance on the hither side of the Meuse.
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