"Nightfall" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... neglected quarter of the East End, with all its untold misery. Spirit-vaults flourished; the low lodging-houses were crowded to excess; rents rose rapidly; and the narrow ill lighted streets swarmed with riff-raff after nightfall, when the greater part of the wealthy district-visitors were spending their evening hours in their comfortable homes, satisfied with their day's work for ...
— Cobwebs and Cables • Hesba Stretton
... animals. One day one of its mules died. The mozo in charge of the corrals dragged the carcass to the superintendent's office. That individual cursed twice; once at the mule for dying, and once at the mozo for being a fool. At nightfall another mule died. This time the mozo, mindful of his berating, did not deliver the body, but conducted the superintendent to see ...
— The Killer • Stewart Edward White
... men, urged on by the counsels of Scharnhorst, hurried up from the side of Koenigsberg, marched straight on Davoust, and checked his forward movements. Ney followed Lestocq, but at so great a distance that his arrival at nightfall served only to secure the ...
— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose
... nightfall when Major Keene returned to Dorade. As he drove past the hotel where the Tresilyans lodged he looked up at the windows of their apartments, and was somewhat surprised to see no light there; but no ...
— Sword and Gown - A Novel • George A. Lawrence
... from the town at nightfall Notes continued to pour As when I had left two hours before: It's the very last time," she said in closing; "From now ...
— Moments of Vision • Thomas Hardy
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