I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
Ag stayed on night duty for three months.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
We went along the road all night in the dark and the adjutant kept riding up alongside my kitchen and saying, “You must put it out.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
She was cool and fresh in the hot night.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
They were about the hospital, and how much she loved him and how it was impossible to get along without him and how terrible it was missing him at night.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— the time from dusk to dawn when no sunlight is visible
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Macmillan
— the part of each 24-hour period when it is dark
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Other Word Forms
nights
Usage
5 uses of ‘night’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
35 uses of ‘night’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
73 uses of ‘night’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
73 uses of ‘night’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle