midnight hours

So Corydon recited in a low voice a couple of stanzas which had come to her in the lonely midnight hours.

And in the solemn, mystical midnight hours the great battle was fought between self-pity and mother-love.

For two long midnight hours on that memorable tenth of February, 1651, did mother and son endure this trying ordeal.

While you sleep in the midnight hours, their pens fly, and their brains ache in preparing the morning intelligence.

Genius formed them often in the midnight hours; despondency over their faults broke them in the day.