"night" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Then they shut me up in the byre and throw me beans and crushed straw mixed with dirt and chaff, and I lie in dung and filth and foul stinks through the livelong night.
- She paced the room with it the livelong night, hushing it and soothing it.
- Still, in those avenues of light, No maid, with golden zone, And lily garment that from sight Half hides the ivory throne, Lay in my arms the livelong night To call my soul her own.
- All through the livelong night and early morning, these passersby glanced down at the body and hurried on along because, this neighborhood being what it was, nobody thought it prudent to report what sure as hell looked like a murder.
- Genghis's troops would not even dismount in order to sleep, but abided "on horseback the livelong night" while their horses grazed.
- The little owls, too, call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees that overhang the roof.
- Doubtless those awful passages, along which we had wandered the livelong night, had originally been, in some way, connected with the great diamond mine.
- She told me afterwards that it was the suspense that was so awful, having to sit there hour after hour through the livelong night utterly ignorant as to whether or not any attempt was to be made to rescue her.
- The obscure bird Clamor'd the livelong night.
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