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small hours

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the small hours
the early hours of the morning. I was up till the small hours of Wednesday morning finishing off that report. (often + of) She was born in the small hours of Saturday morning.
See also: hour, small

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When I had read two or three of the small hours away and was as wide awake as ever, I found that a drink furnished the soporific effect.
Having set off in the small hours of the fourteenth, accompanied by a bugler and two Cossacks, Balashev reached the French outposts at the village of Rykonty, on the Russian side of the Niemen, by dawn.
In the small hours of the morning a burning spear came hurtling through the darkness and fell with a hiss and a quiver in the ground, only a few feet from where Trent and the boy lay.
 
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