hush of night
Example Sentences
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Yowling from various cats in different registers can often punctuate the hush of night, especially during mating season.
From BBC • Aug. 1, 2024
One 15-year-old said that five of his friends had already made it to Italy after perilous sea journeys that started in the hush of night.
From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2016
I turned and walked out of the honey house, into the warm hush of night.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
From the main vestibule came the subdued hum of voices, and throughout the house there was that feeling of wakefulness so different to the usual placid hush of night.
From "Unto Caesar" by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
And the Witch stepped down from her casement: In the hush of night he heard The calling and wailing in dewy thicket Of bird to hidden bird.
From Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume I. by De la Mare, Walter
