Ever need a fact or quotation relating to night and morning? Designed for speechwriters, journalists, writers, researchers, students, professors, teachers, historians, academics, scrapbookers, trivia buffs and word lovers, this book represents the largest compilation of anything relating to “night and morning,” with a linguistic emphasis on non-conventional usage and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities. The entries cover all parts of speech (noun, verb, adverb or adjective usage) as well as use in modern slang, pop culture, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This “data dump” results in many unexpected examples for night and morning, since the editorial decision to include or exclude terms is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under “fair use” conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. Proceeds from this book are used to expand the content and coverage of Webster’s Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org).

Familiar Quotations

Night

A day without sunshine is like, well, night.–Anonymous

Growl all day and you'll feel dog tired all night.–Anonymous

If the funeral procession is at night, do folks drive with their lights off?–Anonymous

The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle, complimentary way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.–Anonymous

We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.–Anonymous

When a church seeks a pastor, they want the strength of an eagle, the grace of a swan, the gentleness of a dove, the friendliness of a sparrow, and the night hours of an owl. And when they catch that bird, they expect him to live on the food of a canary.–Anonymous

When the light has sharply faded And you have lost your way Let another's love guide you It can turn blackest night into day.–Anonymous

You've reached middle age when the phone rings on Saturday night you pray it isn't for you.–Anonymous

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.–Djuna Barnes

Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.–Jean Baudrillard

• Preface x
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Night 1
• Night – "Bed" 5
• Night – "Dark" 6
• Night – "Dusk" 7
• Night – "Evening" 7
• Night – "Home" 7
• Night – "Life" 8
• Night – "Obscure" 9
• Night – "Sleepy" 9
• Night – "Things" 10
• Morning 10
• Morning – "Dawn" 13
• Morning – "Daybreak" 13
• Morning – "Go" 13
• Morning – "Love" 14
• Morning – "Man" 14
• Morning – "Wakes" 14
• Morning – "Work" 15
• Use in Literature 16
• Night 16
• Night – "Agony" 84
• Night – "Animals" 85
• Night – "Arm" 85
• Night – "Attack" 86
• Night – "Awake" 87
• Night – "Bad" 88
• Night – "Ball" 89
• Night – "Bare" 89
• Night – "Battle" 90
• Night – "Begin" 90
• Night – "Box" 90
• Night – "Breath" 91
• Night – "Buildings" 91
• Night – "Cabin" 92
• Night – "Calm" 92
• Night – "Candle" 93
• Night – "Caught" 93
• Night – "Chill" 94
• Night – "Cry" 94
• Night – "Different" 95
• Night – "Dread" 96
• Night – "Drink" 96
• Night – "Escape" 97
• Night – "Feared" 97
• Night – "Flames" 98
• Night – "Forced" 99
• Night – "Gathered" 99
• Night – "Getting" 100
• Night – "Glowed" 100
• Night – "Growing" 101
• Night – "Guard" 102
• Night – "Gusts" 103
• Night – "Heated" 104
• Night – "Help" 104
• Night – "Keep" 105
• Night – "Killed" 107
• Night – "Laid" 107
• Night – "Lamps" 107
• Night – "Lantern" 108
• Night – "Line" 109
• Night – "Lonely" 109
• Night – "Lost" 110
• Night – "Means" 110
• Night – "Midnight" 111
• Night – "Moon" 112
• Night – "Moonlight" 114
• Night – "Music" 115
• Night – "Need" 115
• Night – "Noise" 116
• Night – "North" 117
• Night – "Plain" 118
• Night – "Possess" 118
• Night – "Power" 118
• Night – "Real" 119
• Night – "Road" 119
• Night – "Roar" 120
• Night – "Safe" 121
• Night – "Save" 121
• Night – "Shadows" 122
• Night – "Shelter" 123
• Night – "Soft" 123
• Night – "Soldiers" 124
• Night – "Soul" 124
• Night – "State" 125
• Night – "Steps" 125
• Night – "Stones" 126
• Night – "Streams" 126
• Night – "Talked" 127
• Night – "Tent" 128
• Night – "Terror" 129
• Night – "Thick" 129
• Night – "Thinking" 130
• Night – "Thousands" 130
• Night – "Tired" 131
• Night – "Watched" 131
• Night – "Week" 133
• Night – "Winter" 134
• Night – "Wood" 134
• Morning 135
• Morning – "Air" 154
• Morning – "Appeared" 155
• Morning – "Arrival" 157
• Morning – "Beautiful" 157
• Morning – "Best" 158
• Morning – "Black" 158
• Morning – "Breakfasted" 159
• Morning – "Break" 160
• Morning – "Bright" 161
• Morning – "Broke" 162
• Morning – "Business" 163
• Morning – "Called" 164
• Morning – "Carried" 165
• Morning – "Change" 166
• Morning – "Children" 166
• Morning – "Church" 167
• Morning – "Clear" 167
• Morning – "Cloth" 169
• Morning – "Cloud" 169
• Morning – "Cold" 170
• Morning – "Came" 171
• Morning – "Days" 178
• Morning – "Dead" 179
• Morning – "Departure" 179
• Morning – "Doctor" 180
• Morning – "Done" 180
• Morning – "Door" 181
• Morning – "Drew" 181
• Morning – "Driver" 182
• Morning – "Early" 182
• Morning – "Everything" 186
• Morning – "Eyes" 187
• Morning – "Fallen" 188
• Morning – "Families" 188
• Morning – "Far" 188
• Morning – "Father" 189
• Morning – "Felt" 190
• Morning – "Few" 191
• Morning – "Finished" 192
• Morning – "Fire" 192
• Morning – "Following" 193
• Morning – "Found" 194
• Morning – "Fourth" 198
• Morning – "Friends" 199
• Morning – "Frost" 199
• Morning – "Gardens" 200
• Morning – "Gone" 200
• Morning – "Gray" 200
• Morning – "Great" 201
• Morning – "Grey" 202
• Morning – "Hand" 202
• Morning – "Hard" 203
• Morning – "Having" 204
• Morning – "Head" 204
• Morning – "Heard" 205
• Morning – "Heart" 205
• Morning – "Heavy" 206
• Morning – "Horse" 206
• Morning – "Hot" 207
• Morning – "Hour" 207
• Morning – "House" 208
• Morning – "King" 209
• Morning – "Late" 209
• Morning – "Left" 210
• Morning – "Letter" 210
• Morning – "Little" 211
• Morning – "Looking" 213
• Morning – "Lovely" 215
• Morning – "Made" 215
• Morning – "Miles" 218
• Morning – "Milk" 218
• Morning – "Minds" 218
• Morning – "Misty" 219
• Morning – "Mother" 219
• Morning – "Mountain" 220
• Morning – "Movement" 221
• Morning – "New" 221
• Morning – "Noon" 223
• Morning – "Nothing" 223
• Morning – "Official" 224
• Morning – "Old" 225
• Morning – "Opening" 226
• Morning – "Order" 227
• Morning – "Paper" 227
• Morning – "People" 228
• Morning – "Place" 228
• Morning – "Post" 229
• Morning – "Rain" 230
• Morning – "Read" 230
• Morning – "Returned" 231
• Morning – "Riding" 232
• Morning – "Rising" 232
• Morning – "Room" 233
• Morning – "Rose" 233
• Morning – "Sea" 234
• Morning – "Second" 235
• Morning – "Sent" 235
• Morning – "Served" 236
• Morning – "Sat" 237
• Morning – "Skies" 237
• Morning – "Soon" 238
• Morning – "Stars" 239
• Morning – "Starting" 239
• Morning – "Storm" 241
• Morning – "Strange" 241
• Morning – "Street" 242
• Morning – "Sun's" 242
• Morning – "Sunny" 245
• Morning – "Sunshine" 245
• Morning – "Ten" 246
• Morning – "Third" 247
• Morning – "Visit" 247
• Morning – "Waiting" 248
• Morning – "Walking" 249
• Morning – "Warm" 249
• Morning – "Wife" 250
• Morning – "Wind" 251
• Morning – "Worse" 252
• Morning – "Writing" 252
• Morning – "Young" 253
• Nonfiction Usage 255
• Lyrical Usage 255
• Script Usage 258
• Historical Usage 301
• Tongue-Twister Usage 301
• Spoken Usage 301
• Presidential Usage 303
• Song Title Usage 304
• Bible Usage 306
• Qur'anic Usage 324
• Journalism Usage 328
• Encyclopedic Usage 393
• Lexicographic Usage 527
• Index 644