Synonyms for small hours


Grammar : Noun


Définition of small hours

  • noun earliest hours of day
Example sentences :
  • In the small hours the breeze weakened, then failed altogether.
  • Extract from : « The Shadow-Line » by Joseph Conrad
  • They will be only turning us out in the small hours, to go home and face insomnia.
  • Extract from : « The Arrow of Gold » by Joseph Conrad
  • It was by this time in the small hours of a dark, moonless night.
  • Extract from : « The Pirate of Panama » by William MacLeod Raine
  • It was the small hours, very near the time to relieve guard.
  • Extract from : « Little Novels of Italy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett
  • All her days, and her nights into the small hours, seemed to be filled.
  • Extract from : « Mary Gray » by Katharine Tynan
  • Who had come to that deserted wing of the inn in the small hours, and on what business?
  • Extract from : « The Shrieking Pit » by Arthur J. Rees
  • Why, it sounds like a clock that strikes thirteen in the small hours of the night!
  • Extract from : « Old Fogy » by James Huneker
  • The early sunshine, however, woke her in the small hours of the morning.
  • Extract from : « A harum-scarum schoolgirl » by Angela Brazil
  • I was awakened in the small hours by the rattle of the winch.
  • Extract from : « The Great White Tribe in Filipinia » by Paul T. Gilbert
  • Especially is it so at midnight and towards the small hours of the morning.
  • Extract from : « Reminiscences of Queensland » by William Henry Corfield

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