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THIS NIGHT
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
During the night of the present day
Example:
drop by tonight
Synonyms:
this evening; this night; tonight
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Context examples:
But this night, after algebra and physics, and an attempt at a sonnet, he got into bed and opened "First Principles."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Well now, you all know what I wanted, and you all know if that had been done that we'd 'a been aboard the HISPANIOLA this night as ever was, every man of us alive, and fit, and full of good plum-duff, and the treasure in the hold of her, by thunder! Well, who crossed me? Who forced my hand, as was the lawful cap'n?
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
And now for you, Madam Mina, this night is the end until all be well.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Ride on, Alleyne, and tell this inn-keeper that an English knight with his party will lodge with him this night.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This night twelve men will come: their faces will be black, and they will be dressed in chain armour.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
However, on this night, she set fire first to the hangings of the room next her own, and then she got down to a lower storey, and made her way to the chamber that had been the governess's—(she was like as if she knew somehow how matters had gone on, and had a spite at her)—and she kindled the bed there; but there was nobody sleeping in it, fortunately.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
All their elasticity was departed, and I never saw them half so wretched as on this night; insomuch that when the bell rang, and Mr. Micawber walked with me to the lodge, and parted from me there with a blessing, I felt quite afraid to leave him by himself, he was so profoundly miserable.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
So if it be that he come thither on this night he shall find me; but none other shall—until it be too late.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Alleyne, as God is my help, as I came up the stairs this night I saw her stand before me, her face in tears, her hands out as though in warning—I saw it, Alleyne, even as I see those two archers upon their couches.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The king comforted her and said: Leave your bedroom door open this night, and my servants shall stand outside, and when he has fallen asleep shall go in, bind him, and take him on board a ship which shall carry him into the wide world.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
