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twelve o'clock at night

noun as in midnight

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He will stand at his desk folding and pasting and cutting until twelve o’clock at night.

"She said, 'There's a possibility she could be one of the victims that's lying at George Square. Would you like us to send a colleague over to speak with you? They wouldn't be able to get there until about twelve o'clock at night. Or would you rather just leave it until tomorrow?' "

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We started in a carriage, between eleven and twelve o'clock at night, taking with us a young girl who was easily mesmerised, and when in that state a good clairvoyante.

The bell was now rung, and Manners was conducted to a room which the servant who had given him admission, and who was an old acquaintance, had with laudable foresight prepared for his use, looking upon it as certain that a visiter who arrived at twelve o'clock at night was not likely to depart before the next morning.

He states that the rolling of the ship, which was vastly increased by a dead weight of some hundred tons of shot and shells that formed a part of its lading, became so great about half-past eleven or twelve o’clock at night, that the main-chains were thrown by every lurch considerably under water; and the best cleated articles of furniture in the cabin and the cuddy were dashed about in all directions.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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