It was, in the night, as though I had been faced by my own reflection in the depths of a somber and immense mirror.
The night, clear and starry, sparkled darkly, and the opaque, lightless patches shifting slowly against the low stars were the drifting islets.
The riding light in the forerigging burned with a clear, untroubled, as if symbolic, flame, confident and bright in the mysterious shades of the night.
The night was so wet that no one was about, so Charpentier dragged the body of his victim into the empty house.
In the silence he heard a gentle scratching sound--low, but very distinct in the quiet of the night.
It was what I began telling you in the night--about that gentleman who managed the Sydney hotel.
XI Next morning, which was Sunday, she resumed operations about ten o'clock; and the renewed work recalled the conversation which had accompanied it the night before, and put her back into the same intractable temper.
Her husband then came in the night with a cart, and broke into the house to steal the coffin away; but he was catched, and being obstinate, wouldn't tell what he broke in for.
Father Wolf waited till his cubs could run a little, and then on the night of the Pack Meeting took them and Mowgli and Mother Wolf to the Council Rock--a hilltop covered with stones and boulders where a hundred wolves could hide.
Shere Khan roared still in the night, for he was very angry that Mowgli had not been handed over to him.
Indeed a million golden arrows were pointing it out to the children, all directed by their friend the sun, who wanted them to be sure of their way before leaving them for the night.
But Wendy had not been dreaming, as the very next night showed, the night on which the extraordinary adventures of these children may be said to have begun.
On the night we speak of all the children were once more in bed.
Perhaps a better one would be the night attack by the redskins on the house under the ground, when several of them stuck in the hollow trees and had to be pulled out like corks.
How thorough she was at bath-time, and up at any moment of the night if one of her charges made the slightest cry.
He stepped down into the gutter and remained lying there the rest of the night, and the next day and the next night.
In the night an awful dream awoke him: he saw gallows in a large field and corpses dangling on them; the tongues of the corpses were protruding, and their bodies moved and shook.
The night before he had worked till very late at documents which his ministers of state had left for him to examine.
His father was a musician and a good one, but he had cruelly over-worked the boy; keeping him at the piano for six hours a day and making him play in cafes and dance halls for half the night.
A dream had been dreamed there long ago, in the night of ages, and the wind had whispered some promise to the sadness of the savage.
It was a cool, restful darkness that was not black or forbidding, but somehow open and free; the night of high plains where there is no moistness or mistiness in the atmosphere.
His joy at the safe return of his daughter was only equaled by his gratitude to Tarzan for bringing her safely to him through the dangers of the night, and his thankfulness that she had been in time to save the man who had once saved her.
The sound of galloping horses came suddenly out of the darkness below him, and a moment later he discerned the moving blotches of lighter color against the solid background of the night.
But she had begun to become seriously concerned in Mr. Caldwell's continued absence; somehow she constantly associated it with the start she had had the night before, when the dark object fell past her port into the sea.
On the night of the banquet Paulvitch waited at the curb before the residence of the German minister, where he could scan the face of each guest that arrived.
I was stolen in the night from my father's DOUAR by a band of marauders.
A half hour's work was sufficient to repair the damage, and then the two boats continued their journey toward the mouth of the river up which those they sought had passed the night before.
As she swam, her mind, filled with the terrors of the night, conjured recollection of the stories she had heard of the fierce crocodiles which infest certain of the rivers of Borneo.
The inmate was lying in troubled slumber upon a couch similar to that on which the Palmer himself had passed the night.
I have seen them, Conrade, in the visions of the night--their sainted eyes shed tears for the sins and follies of their brethren, and for the foul and shameful luxury in which they wallow.
Nothing," said the Jewess; "all about him is black as the wing of the night raven.
The two now followed the stream down to the ocean, finding that it emptied into a bay not over a mile from the point upon the beach at which the canoe had been thrown the night before.
The moon had risen now, and, though the sky was still banked with clouds, a lesser darkness enveloped the scene than that which had blotted out all sight earlier in the night.
Only two blazing points of yellow-green flame shone occasionally with the reflected light of the equatorial moon that now and again pierced the softly sighing roof rustling in the night wind.
She knew that the shore held little hope of life for her, as she had no knowledge of the location of the friendly Mosula village to which Anderssen had taken her through the darkness of the night of their escape from the Kincaid.
The night aspect, as of a tramps' lodging-house, had quite disappeared from the car.
He recalled having heard the same sound in the watches of the night, during a prolonged halt.
Dim memories of unaccustomed faces in the bedroom, of nauseous drugs and hushed voices, came to him out of the night-time.
As he stood there he remembered how the wind had driven him to this same spot on the night of his dream.
She had visited him twice during the night, and found him sleeping quietly.
She had in a sense been blowing through and through the Colemans' house the whole of the night.
The night-wind rocks the sleeping flowers, And sings to them, soft and low.
A messenger was despatched to Budmouth, late as it had grown; the night wore on, and the other doctor came in the small hours.
The ex-Mayor had left the home of his prosperity, and gone into Jopp's cottage by the Priory Mill--the sad purlieu to which he had wandered on the night of his discovery that she was not his daughter.
They came in from the country, and the steaming horses had probably been travelling a great part of the night.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the night" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
