Word Finder - evenings

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The time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark.

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The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours.

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A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something.

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It was the evening of the Roman Empire.

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A party or gathering held in the evening.

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(somewhat dated) In the evening, during the evening.

It was going to be one of those evenings when lovemaking lasted gracefully for hours.

Other evenings were like this one, where he checked in and went about his business.

She reads to him in the evenings and reads splendidly.

Jonny had begun disappearing in the evenings with most of the vamps, and she knew he was out hunting humans.

Yet, if their days were filled with work, their evenings were filled with camaraderie.

Fred had called in both Monday and Tuesday evenings but had little of importance to say.

The mornings and evenings had been packed with chores, but there was usually time during the middle of the day to enjoy some time outside.

I've been watering it in the evenings.

He used to dance with me and Mom when we were listening to the radio in the evenings.

It met at first on Sunday evenings, then every evening was passed in Wesley's room or that of some other member.

Not that she had the opportunity to spend many evenings by herself.

There were offers for evenings out, but it wasn't the same without Justin.

She rode across country with her brother, she went out shooting with Deschatres, she sat by the cottage doors on the long summer evenings and heard the flax-dressers tell their tales of witches and warlocks.

In many places Friends have felt the need of bringing spiritual help to those who are unable to profit by the somewhat severe discipline of their ordinary manner of worship. To meet this need they hold (chiefly on Sunday evenings) meetings which are not professedly " Friends' meetings for worship," but which are services conducted on lines similar to those of other religious bodies, with, in some cases, a portion of time set apart for silent worship, and freedom for any one of the congregation to utter words of exhortation or prayer.

When he tried to visit them at their homes he found the task beyond him, and therefore invited them to meet him on Thursday evenings.

In the morning the Tehama, as seen from the mountain tops, appears buried in a sea of white cloud; towards noon the clouds drift up the mountain slopes and cover the summits with wreaths of light mist charged with moisture which condenses on the trees and vegetation; in the afternoon they disappear, and the evenings are generally clear and still.

But there are more than twice as many visible in the early morning hours as in the evenings, and during the last half of the year there are also more than twice as many visible as during the first half.

These pests can be kept in check by syringing with nicotine, soft-soap and quassia solutions, or by "vaporising" two or three evenings in succession, afterwards syringing the plants with clear tepid water.

Devoting his evenings to private investigations in a rough laboratory fitted up at his home, Perkin was fired by some remarks of Hofmann's to undertake the artificial production of quinine.

Further, the Megillath Ta'anith (" roll of fasts "), an old source with a collection of miscellaneous legends, &c.; Megillath Antiokhos, on the martyrdom under Hadrian; Seder`Olam Rabbah, on biblical history from Adam to the rebellion of Bar Kokba (Barcocheba); the " Book of Jashar "; the Chronicle of Jerahmeel," &c. Liturgical Midrash is illustrated by the Haggada shel Pesah, part of the ritual recited at the domestic service of the first two Passover evenings.

The bracing weather of Canadian winters is followed by the warmth and humidity of genial summers, under which crops grow in almost tropical luxuriance, while the cool evenings and nights give the plants a robustness of quality which are not to be found in tropical regions, and also make life for the various domestic animals wholesome and comfortable.

His father was called to the bench in 1755, and for the next three years Wedderburn stuck to his practice in Edinburgh, during which period he employed his oratorical powers in the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and passed his evenings in the social and argumentative clubs which abound in Edinburgh.

Johnson had failed, not because his mind was less vigorous than when he wrote Rasselas in the evenings of a week, but because he had foolishly chosen, or suffered others to choose for him, a subject such as he would at no time have been competent to treat.

A school-fellow who followed him to the university has described in glowing terms evenings in his rooms, "when Aeschylus, and Plato, and Thucydides were pushed aside, with a pile of lexicons and the like, to discuss the pamphlets of the day.

The theory was thought out during the rest of the ague fit, drafted the same evening, written out in full in the two succeeding evenings, and sent to Darwin by the next post.

The employment of children under sixteen years of age in any mercantile establishment for more than 10 hours a day, or 55 hours a week, or between 6 o'clock in the evening and 6 o'clock in the morning is prohibited, except one evening each week when they may be permitted to work until 9 o'clock, and except in the evenings from the 15th to the 25th of December when they may be permitted to work until 10 o'clock.

The hot season lasts from March to June, but is tempered by cool sea-breezes; from June to September the weather is close and oppressive; and from October to February the cold season brings the north-easterly winds, with cool mornings and evenings.

A moderate amount of work enables them to live well enough, and to pass their evenings at the village wine-shop; although, being a sober race, they meet there rather to discuss politics than to drink.

Renan was occupied as usher only in the evenings.

In the evenings he wrote for the Revue des deux mondes and the Debats the exquisite essays which appeared in 1857 and 1859 under the titles Etudes d'histoire religieuse and Essais de morale et de critique.

In his earlier years he often spent his evenings in general society, where his knowledge and conversational talents made him the life of every party.

Currently Series three has just started airing on BBC 2 on Monday evenings.

In the evenings he likes to sit in dad's favorite armchair or spread out across the sofa.

They become friends, making the lonely evenings more bearable.

Methodically chopping cabbage occupies a portion of these long evenings.

The Hotel also benefits from a summer bar, taverna and some evenings local entertainment can be enjoyed by candlelight.

Warwick Festival in July has a series of concerts at St Mary's Church in the evenings including late night candlelit concerts.

The dress code is ' casual elegance ', which boils down to no shorts, jeans or T-shirts in the evenings.

In the evenings I help to cook dal, a meal made of lentils, over the fire.

I looked at the fact that you can drink decaf in the evenings and it won't keep you up at night.

Please, has anyone any further simple ideas that might occupy someone with semantic dementia at home during the long winter evenings?

On clear evenings, there would be a landing party, buzzing over to the deserted shore in a small dingy to explore.

Until the Second World War, gentlemen were expected to wear dinner jackets in the evenings.

On the brilliant June evenings which seemed so frequent in these early years the whole atmosphere had an almost elegiac quality.

I spent the long winter evenings for the most part playing with my cousin Ted.

Night Light Holders The warmer weather means we can all enjoy the evenings in the garden or on a balcony.

There is a staff meeting area with outdoor seating where you can make the most of those balmy southern French evenings after work.

Early weekday evenings or Sunday afternoons suit most people.

During the evenings, Tersteegen studied the Bible and began compositions for his now famous Little Flower Garden.

I'm only doing extra work in the evenings to help out a friend and it's got me completely fried.