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EVERY NIGHT
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
At the end of each day
Example:
she checks on her roses nightly
Synonyms:
every night; nightly
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Context examples:
He was very uneasy; and but for the sense of his son-in-law's protection, would have been under wretched alarm every night of his life.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
We were to work two hours every morning, and two or three hours every night, except on Saturdays, when I was to rest.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I have already told the reader, that every night, when the family were gone to bed, it was my custom to strip, and cover myself with my clothes.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Every night, regularly, at nine, at twelve, at three, they lifted a nocturnal song, a weird and eerie chant, in which it was Buck’s delight to join.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
All these jealousies and discontents, however, were so totally unsuspected by Mrs. Jennings, that she thought it a delightful thing for the girls to be together; and generally congratulated her young friends every night, on having escaped the company of a stupid old woman so long.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
But when I found that we were actually to sleep out there without covering every night, and that he proposed that our food should be the sheep of the Downs (wild goats he called them) cooked upon a fire, which was to be made by the rubbing together of two sticks, my heart failed me, and on the very first night I crept away to my mother.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For many years he drank his ale every night at the “Pied Merlin,” which was now kept by his friend Aylward, who had wedded the good widow to whom he had committed his plunder.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"If we could put a couple of shots into 'em, they'd be more respectful. They come closer every night. Get the firelight out of your eyes an' look hard—there! Did you see that one?"
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Why, I was his wet-nurse. I put 'm to bed, snug every night. His mother died, and I brought 'm up on condensed milk at two dollars a can when I couldn't afford it in my own coffee. He never knew any mother but me.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
It might or might not bite the occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but sooner or later she must fall a victim.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
