sleep before midnight

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I’m a new mother — my baby is nearly 7 months old — so I went to sleep before midnight on New Year’s Eve and woke up at around 6 a.m. the next day.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2022

I believe that earlier sleep, before midnight, is better.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2016

No one dogma of medical science, perhaps, is more fully borne out by universal experience than this, that "two hours' sleep before midnight is worth all obtained afterwards."

From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Lunettes, Henry

She went to bed very early, knowing that the sleep before midnight is the renewing sleep, and she hemmed the day, night and morn, with prayer, to keep it from unraveling.

From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

And all the beauty sleep before midnight, they tell us.

From Antony Gray,—Gardener by Moore, Leslie