night-loving

Example Sentences

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Not all night-loving flowers have such brief lives.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2021

Numerous night-loving flowers in the gardens of the villas, and in the meadows around, whose cups were closed by day, now opened and exhaled their scent into the soft air.

From Felicitas A Tale of the German Migrations: A.D. 476 by Dahn, Felix

After this addition the house would not contain the gay youngsters, so they migrated to the piazza and settled on the steps, like a flock of night-loving birds.

From Jo's Boys by Alcott, Louisa May

To Stygian darkness hurl'd on the great Day of Doom, Shalt thou, night-loving world, still love thy lightless gloom?

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

But, oh, the little land of peace and love That those night-loving wings had poised above,— Where was it gone?

From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Van Dyke, Henry