In little groups, too, round the camp fires we would beguile the long evenings of winter nights by relating our personal adventures.
So the long nights took toll of the little Francette and a purpose grew in her chastened heart, a purpose far too big for it.
The look of them cut to his very soul, quick and sensitive from the working of the great change, made ready as a wind-harp by the silent days of dreams, the nights of visions.
It was again night, though a week of nights had passed since that on which the factor had awakened to consciousness, and Ridgar had dismissed Rette.
Of nights they sat together at the tiny fire of a few laid sticks and talked at intervals in a strange companionship.
She had asked herself in the starlit nights of those years, why not?
A somewhat hard winter it had been, long and cold, with crackling frost of nights and the snow piled deep around the stockade, and the gracious release was very welcome.
Instead, she lay awake in the attic of the Moline cabin and cried in her hands, listening to the whirl of the nights without.
Evenings and nights are most suitable for this work on account of the dampness of the atmosphere.
The gray straw thus obtained is stored in bundles, still attached to the uncut bases, and is left in the air for three or four nights before it is woven into mats.
They are left in the night air for three or four nights and are then rolled up in coarse mats.
Nobody told me; I just read about her when Jim was learning the part of Charles the Wrestler he played on six 'secutive nights in the Waldorf.
No more kitchen nights for Lennox, now that she was a finished young lady and her friend was gone; she must sit in the parlor strumming canzonets on Grandma Buntain's Broadwood, taming her heart of fire.
She isn't wasting to a shadow sitting up nights with a wet towel on her head soaking in the poets and figuring sums.
He was mighty apt to sit up nights talking about you all.
She'd learn the lines in an hour or two, and a couple of nights of looking on would put her up to all the business.
She walked with him in gardens enchanted; they sailed at nights over calm, moonlit seas, and she would be playing the lute.
The nights but rarely brought any fear for her in spite of poor Kate's ghosts, since the warmth and light and love of the household filled every corner of lobby and stair, and went to bed with her.
A couple of nights after he must have come with recruits, for next morning three large goslings were reported missing.
The days are softer and more brooding, and the nights more enchanting.
When the nights are calm and the moon full, I go out to gaze upon the wonderful purity of the moonlight and the snow.
Carry the carcass of a pig, or a fowl, or a dog, to a distant field in midwinter, and in a few nights his tracks cover the snow about it.
For three nights none of our workers even thought of going to bed; they stood by with cars ready to help where and how they were most needed, and gave help to soldiers and refugees alike.
It is hidden away in the depths of a wood near the sea, and in the springtime the nights are full of the melody of the nightingales.
When this practice had gone on for ten years, one day the badger said to the priest, "Through your reverence's kindness for all these years, I have been able to pass the winter nights in comfort.
To this the badger nodded assent; and as long as the old priest lived, it came and spent the winter nights with him.
After days of fatigue their nights were often passed in restless efforts to prevent themselves from freezing.
Anne-Marie had not slept for three nights thinking of that moment, imagining the joy of the imprisoned voice when her hands should let it loose.
On one of these nights the poets cast a spell over her.
The lights in the Mess hut were not extinguished, because full precautions had been taken some nights before to have the small window-space fully and closely screened against the possibility of leakage of a single ray of light.
But the mental strain must have been even worse in the past six days and nights of constant heavy firing, and of suffering under fire.
Good-nights were exchanged on the pier and the motor-boat headed south.
You needn't lie awake nights wondering what's happened to your Argo.
You are an enthusiast; make Arabian Nightsout of dull foggy London Days; with your beautiful female imagination, shape burnished copper Castles out of London Fog!
Marcella, the other tragedy, was also acted, in 1789, when it was condemned at one house, and in three nights after applauded at the other.
The nightingale among the thick-leaved spring, That sits alone in sorrow, and doth sing Whole nightsaway in mourning.
Toad that under cold stone, Days and nights has thirty-one Swelter'd venom sleeping got, Boil thou first i' the charmed pot.
One of these fine nights we'll catch him, then he'll take a bath in the lake.
He and a friend, had spent many days and nights aboard, anchored out on the fishing grounds.
The women bewail their virginity for three nightsbefore their marriage.
They are greatly addicted to gambling, and do not appear at all dejected by ill fortune, spending days and nights in the winter season at their games, frequently gambling away every rag of clothing and every trinket in their possession.
One of their great holidays is the pitahaya season, when, with plenty to eat, they spend days and nights in amusements; at such times feats of strength and trials of speed take place.
They reckon time by so many nights or twilights, not by days, and determine the hour by the height of the sun.
On the Klamath a fire is kept burning near the grave for several nights after the burial, for which rite various reasons are assigned.
When the moonless nights are blackest the best dreams are about; I'll tell you why that should be so and how I found it out.
Have you noticed that the splendid dreams, the best dreams that there are, Come always in the darkest nights without a single star?
But, as men live, thou hast very many more nights and days, Little Brother.
The gale broke with a shriek of wind like the shriek of a train, and for three days and three nights it held, never varying one point, and never lulling even for a minute.
To-morrow, and for very many nights after, it will be Mowgli's turn again.
As much good ground as I can walk over in twonights from the east to the west, and from the north to the south as much as I can walk over in three nights, the Jungle took.
The thought of his mother's sleeplessnights of prayer for him revealed more of the agony of all those years of waiting than her lips could ever utter.
She came up step by step, slowly and wearily; for the watching and anxiety of the last few days and nights were beginning to tell upon her.
Many long, restless days and painful nights had Archie passed there; but it was associated with the memory of their mother, and it was like a second parting from her to leave it.
This was the comedy by Thomas Holcroft, Lamb's friend, the failure of which occurred a few nights before that of "Mr. H.
With such guides he struggled on through laborious nights and days, till he reached the eminence he aimed at--of mediocrity.
Hence the peculiar avidity with which such books as the Arabian Nights Entertainments, and others of a still wilder cast, are, or at least were in my time, sought for by the boys.
I spent nights without any sleep and days without sitting down.
It had been fournights since he had slept in a bed.
The long trip had been pleasant enough, but being confined to a plane for three days and three nights had become monotonous.
But 'his friends sprinkle dust towards heaven, and sit silently by him, and weep for him seven days and seven nights upon the ground.
You see Luther throwing himself into the cloister, that he might subdue his will to the will of God; prostrate in prayer, in nights of agony, and distracting his easy-going confessor with the exaggerated scruples of his conscience.
He passed nights in the chancel before the altar, or on his knees on the floor of his cell.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nights" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
