hush of night

Yowling from various cats in different registers can often punctuate the hush of night, especially during mating season.

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.

I turned and walked out of the honey house, into the warm hush of night.

There would be noise and tumult a little later, as the crested galahs came cackling homeward to rest, and then the long and solemn hush of night, with sound enough and yet no lack of peace.

So, at the appointed hour, just when the sun was setting over the far-away Spanish shore, and the hush of night was sinking over the little, rocky, peppery, military-thick, Mediterranean isle, I found myself en route to the vineyards; which, till I came to Malta, had been one of my delusions, Idea picturing them in wreaths and avenues, Reality proving them hop-sticks and parched earth.