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Evening

noun

The latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall). Synonyms: eve, even, eventide.

A later concluding time period.

The early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way.

Even

verb

(past & past part. evened; pres. part. evening)

Make level or straight. Synonyms: even out, flush, level.

Become even or more even. Synonym: even out.

Make even or more even. Synonym: even out.

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"Evening" Quotes from Famous Books

... hand over one hip thrown out, her figure drooping into an ungainly pose. She gazed at the surgeon steadily, as if puzzled at his intense preoccupation over the common case of a man "shot in a row." Her eyes travelled over the surgeon's neat-fitting evening dress, which was so bizarre here in the dingy receiving room, redolent of bloody tasks. Evidently he had been out to some dinner or party, and when the injured man was brought in had merely donned his rumpled linen jacket with its right sleeve half torn from the socket. A spot of ...

— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick

... withdrawn from things sensual and corporeal, in the same proportion it is elevated into things celestial and spiritual.' It has been noticed that often thoughts and judgments, scattered and entangled in our evening hours, seem sifted, clarified, and arranged in sleep; that problems which seemed hopelessly confused when we lay down are at once and easily solved when we awake, 'as though a reason more perfect than reason had been at work when we were in our beds.' Something analogous ...

— The Map of Life - Conduct and Character • William Edward Hartpole Lecky

... for $600. Through the Mission the girl was released from her bondage, and remained at the Mission one year and then married the first man, and they left San Francisco and resided for a time in an inland town. Here an effort was made to kill her in her own garden one evening. Her husband brought her back to San Francisco, and later ...

— Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers • Elizabeth Wheeler Andrew and Katharine Caroline Bushnell

... too, had got over its first difficulties. From the front, where small detachments were continually skirmishing with the enemy, came the news that the Japanese had retreated from Baker City after pulling up the rails. On the evening of the eleventh of August the 28th Militia Regiment was bivouacking a few miles east of Baker City. The outposts towards the enemy on the other side of the town were composed of a battalion ...

— Banzai! • Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff

... it is an ordinary Thursday afternoon at four o'clock and you have on your new blue barege, although there is not even a church sociable in prospect this evening. What does this mean? Is Abijah the ...

— New Chronicles of Rebecca • Kate Douglas Wiggin

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