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Definition of Nighttimes
1. nighttime [n] - See also: nighttime
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nighttimes
Literary usage of Nighttimes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shakespeare's Ovid: Being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphoses by Ovid, Arthur Golding, William Henry Denham Rouse (1904)
"It was the time that wives of Thrace were wont to celebrate The three yeare rites
of Bacchus which were done a nighttimes late. A nighttimes giving up hir ..."
2. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness (1873)
"... nighttimes they ride abroad with Diana, the goddess of the Pagans,' &c.—Their
dame or chief leader seems always to have been an old Pagan, ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1899)
"So yer see, that's why I creeps roun' ter the side gate wiv this puty fing—on
er "and-cart—about nighttimes." " Perhaps," said his impatient hearer- more ..."
4. The Midland by Frank Luther Mott, John Towner Frederick (1918)
"Daytimes I'd putter 'round and go fishing, mebbe, and nighttimes I'd read the
county paper or play on my flute — Lucindy never would let me play on it — and ..."
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