Even the New Zealand owl-parrot, however, still retains many traces of his original greenness, mixed with the dirty brown and dingy yellow of his acquired nocturnal and burrowing nature.
They executed their orders with so much boldness and celerity, that they had almost surprised the Barbarian chiefs, who returned in the fearless confidence of intoxication from one of their nocturnal festivals.
A quantitative study of the nocturnal migration of birds.
As in all Italian cities, northern or southern, however, the nocturnal noise is prodigious.
Instantly the great bull was awake and bristling, sensing danger from the nocturnal summons.
His captors were leading him to a hut where he might be confined and guarded against the coming of the nocturnal orgy that would mark his torture-laden death.
How did Goro get way up into the darkness of the night sky to cast his welcome light upon the fearsome nocturnal jungle?
Narrow and black was the corridor; but long use of his eyes in the Stygian blackness of the jungle nights had given to the ape-man something of the nocturnal visionary powers of the wild things with which he had consorted since babyhood.
We were ashamed of the scene before us; the entrails of the moose and its young, which had been buried at our feet, bore testimony to the nocturnal revel of the wolves, during the time we had slept.
In a nocturnal dream he was carried by Gabriel from Mecca to Jerusalem, and thence in succession through the six heavens.
I presume, however, the fear of detection prevents his resuming his nocturnal visits.
How far his scheme had succeeded when his nocturnalvisit was discovered by Mr. Mervyn, our readers are already informed.
And, being situated, as I see, next door to the old castle, you may repair Donagild's tower for the nocturnal contemplation of the celestial bodies?
In more recent times it has been discussed in relation to the frequency of spontaneous nocturnal emissions.
When he reached his room after these nocturnal frolics, he had difficulty in going to sleep.
The merry crowd of nocturnal walkers rubbed elbows on the pavement.
The feline race being too often homeless, and having a proverbial taste for nocturnal wanderings, the average male citizen of the capital feelingly nicknames himself a "Madrid cat.
Were any of the local inhabitants given to nocturnal aeronautics, however, I should unhesitatingly aver that they had passed close over me not half an hour since, and that their machinery needed oiling.
Conditions such as these are unfavourable to the pursuit of the nocturnal lepidoptero.
It is suddenly revealed to me by the weary pallor of the street lamps that the streets are silent and nocturnal still, not because there is any strength in night, but because men have not yet arisen from sleep to defy him.
It was a confused nocturnal battle and the soldiers were repulsed and fell back with the deputation.
In the town, seething with slanders, in the town where everyone knew everything about everyone, Sasha's nocturnal adventure remained a secret.
As it happened, the first red-haired boy whom Ershova met was one of the locksmith's sons, who had a grudge against Peredonov for revealing their nocturnal prank.
All objects were strangely and unexpectedly concealed by the darkness, as if another different nocturnal life awoke in them, incomprehensible to man and hostile to him.
This was his enlightened thought in a partially refreshed brain granted by a nocturnal sleep which had also slugged him with a headache, made his clothes wrinkled and smelly, and left him with the need to urinate.
The paramour blew his clouds of smoke into the darkness like mist floating above a noxious lake and this lethal haze hid the nocturnal snake that was attached to his form, making obscure all that Nawin had been able to see in the darkness.
Its victim dropped without a cry, but the impact of the blow was loud in the nocturnal stillness of that bystreet, and was echoed in magnified volume by the crack of a skull in collision with a convenient lamppost.
This was the dress he kept for his nocturnal expeditions, so Michelotto felt no surprise at that; but his eyes burned with a flame more gloomy than their want, and his cheeks, generally pale, were now livid.
If you have a few Nocturnal Emissions, remember it is only a mark of vitality and health, and not a sign of a deathly disease, as many of these advertising quacks would lead you to believe.
This crowd of boys and men, robed in white from head to heel, preserved a serious grace in its vivacity, suggested besides a dignified barbarity a mingling of angel, monk and nocturnal spirit.
I am not much oblig'd to you, Sir, said he, speaking to my Master, for putting me in a Place where Witches have their nocturnal Meeting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nocturnal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
