In a single night a swoop was made through the neighboring pastures by the Blackfeet, and eighty-six of the finest horses carried off.
In this way, sometimes, all the horses of a camp amounting to several hundred will be frightened off in a single night.
Bets increase in amount, one loss only serves to lead to a greater, until in the course of a single night's gambling, the richest chief may become the poorest varlet in the camp.
The dragon has bidden me do something I can never, never do; and what is more, she has bidden me do it in a single night.
He could not understand all this, although he was a king; for he could take his oath it had all been built in a single night; and if the Duke were not the evil one himself, he must in any case have done it by magic.
You have only to throw it from one hand to the other, and at once twelve young men will appear who will do your bidding, no matter how difficult it is, in a single night.
Nowhere else is the phenomenon noticed, or at least ship-masters who have sailed the world over say that Callao is the only place where a ship can be painted inside and outside in a single night.
Greece, destroying thousands of lives and damaging millions of dollars worth of property in a single night.
The Japanese tell us that the great volcano, Fujiyama, was thrown up in a single night, and at the same time the lake in Oomi was created, near by, on the site of a number of flourishing villages.
Rustin has published the case of a woman of seventy who became as black as a negress in a single night.
There was a clergyman of Nottingham whose daughter at the age of thirteen experienced a change from jet-blackness of the hair to white in a single night, but this was confined to a spot on the back of the head 1 1/2 inches in length.
Presently the shoot rose upward, And the flax grew thick and strongly, Grew beyond their expectations, In a single night of summer.
Then retired the Lake of Alue, And fell back from all its margins, Sinking to its former level In a single night of summer.
Then with diligence they cleansed it, In the twilight did they comb it, 50 And upon the loom arranged it, Quicker brought it to the spindle, In a single night of summer; Thus between two days they worked it.
When he was told that this mountain had come into being in a single night[2] he conjectured that Mount Fuji must needs yield the Elixir of Life itself.
Legend asserts that Fuji came from the earth in a single night, while Lake Biwa sank simultaneously.
The Rip van Winkle of Old Japan We have already referred to the coming of Fuji in a single night, and the following legend gives an account of this remarkable event.
There the seed took root and flourished, Quickly grew to great proportions, In a single nightin summer.
The farmers, however, have very good reason for dreading the animal, for it is a terrible enemy to sheep, and has been known to kill as many as fifty in a single night.
One stoat has been known to destroy as many as forty fowls in a single night.
A couple of lynxes have been known to kill six sheep between them in a single night.
Thereupon she wove, in a single night, a robe and sandals from the unopened buds of the lilac and white wistaria.
It had sprung up in a single night, while they slept.
The same nightly loss continues, sometimes being repeated several times in a single night, to his infinite mortification and chagrin.
Each of her two arms was as white as the snow of a single night, and each of her cheeks was as rosy as the foxglove.
At the bidding of her son, Earl Gerald, she planted all Knockainey with pease in a single night.
And having Partha in their company, they spent four years there even like a single night.
Having passed a single night here, if thou wilt spend the second, the events of the night will be different from those that have happened to thee in the day-time, O most righteous of Bharata's race!
Again, can the fact of the weir which had a wall of this bottom- ice three feet high in a single night, be accounted for by radiation?
Anchor frosts are most common in the rapid streams occurring below deeps in rivers, and I have seen a weir on the river Wharfe which had a wall of ice four feet high formed upon it in a single night by a sharp north wind.
It grew, as it were, in a single night, from a village of mud-walled houses into one in which every other man owned something of a dug-out.
In a single night we had carried our sap some thirty yards beyond theirs, and at such an angle that we enfiladed their sap, while only eighty yards divided the pair.
We did this in a single night, having led up to such a climax by devoting our attentions to this particular quarter.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single night" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
