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Eve n.

Evening. (Poetic) "Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze."

The evening before a holiday, from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset, not at midnight; as, Christmas eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event. "On the eve of death."

Eve churr (Zoöl.), the European goatsucker or nightjar; called also night churr, and churr owl.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Eve" Quotes from Famous Books

... 1872.—In Rome again for the last three days—that second visit which, when the first isn't followed by a fatal illness in Florence, the story goes that one is doomed to pay. I didn't drink of the Fountain of Trevi on the eve of departure the other time; but I feel as if I had drunk of the Tiber itself. Nevertheless as I drove from the station in the evening I wondered what I should think of it at this first glimpse hadn't I already known it. All manner of evil perhaps. Paris, as I passed along the Boulevards three ...

— Italian Hours • Henry James

... to have that." Daughter of Eve! She liked it because he did! "But don't speak about furs on a day like this! It's hot—too hot, Martin, for a houseful of ...

— Amanda - A Daughter of the Mennonites • Anna Balmer Myers

... for Dick to give up all his bad ways. But each morn and eve he went to God, to ask Him for help, and he did not ask in vain. By-and-by the girl let him sit with her. She made him a good bed. Miss Puss yet kept her seat on his knee, when he sat down to rest, and all ...

— Dick and His Cat - An Old Tale in a New Garb • Mary Ellis

... was cursed and loathed; 'Twas in a garden bower I knelt one eve, and scalding tears Fell fast on many a flower; And as I rose I marked with awe And agonizing grief, A frail mimosa at my feet Fold ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 • Various

... not trouble to pursue him, and a sudden rumour shortly afterwards that Mr Parrett was prowling about sent Telson and the few Welchers slinking back to their quarters. And so ended the eve of the great election. ...

— The Willoughby Captains • Talbot Baines Reed

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