in the dead of night

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in the dead of night/winter

in the middle of the night or in the middle of winter The fire broke out in the dead of night.

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I have heard upwards of ten score of windlasses spring like one into clanking life in the dead of night, filling the Downs with a panic-struck sound of anchors being torn hurriedly out of the ground at the first breath of his approach. The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context Sometimes it was Monty crying to him from the bush, sometimes the yelling of those savages at Bekwando seemed to fill the air, sometimes Ernestine was there, listening to his passionate pleading with cold, set face, In the dead of night he saw her and the still silence was broken by his hoarse, passionate cries, which they strove in vain to check. A Millionaire of Yesterday by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context "But there's no sense in going for it in the dead of night," I objected. The Golden Road by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context More results

? References in classic literature

I have heard upwards of ten score of windlasses spring like one into clanking life in the dead of night, filling the Downs with a panic-struck sound of anchors being torn hurriedly out of the ground at the first breath of his approach.

The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context

Sometimes it was Monty crying to him from the bush, sometimes the yelling of those savages at Bekwando seemed to fill the air, sometimes Ernestine was there, listening to his passionate pleading with cold, set face, In the dead of night he saw her and the still silence was broken by his hoarse, passionate cries, which they strove in vain to check.

A Millionaire of Yesterday by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context

"But there's no sense in going for it in the dead of night," I objected.

The Golden Road by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context

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