over night

Example Sentences

• "VVhat a devil makes thee in ſo muſty a humour? Thou art as dull and dumpiſh as a fellovv that had been drunk over night vvith Ale, and had done nothing but drunk Coffee, talked Politicks, and read Gazettes all this morning."
• "On the ſecond day of my impriſonment, I was viſited by the duke of L⁠—⁠—, a friend of my lord, who found me ſitting upon a trunk, in a poor little dining-room filled with lumber, and lighted with two bits of tallow-candle, which had been left over night."
• "Huddled together in loathsome files, they squat there over night, or until an inquisitive policeman breaks up the congregation with his club, which in Mulberry Street has always free swing."
• "Over night from chaperon of a nasty tempered cavalry horse to breakfastmate of the colonel of the regiment, is Sergeant Bill Gray’s record in “Twenty-three and a Half Hours’ Leave.”"
• "Over 200 homeless women and children sat-in over night at the state house to protest inadequate state funding for Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)."
• "This commonsense approach would indicate that monies should be paid into a bank as soon as possible for security reasons if nothing else. This is why most banks operate night safe systems as many organisations prefer to deposit their daily takings each evening rather than running the risk of having the cash on the premises over night."