"night" in the Big Book

I took a night law course, and obtained employment as investigator for a surety company.

My drinking assumed more serious proportions, continuing all day and almost every night.

every day and every night.

An all night place supplied me with a dozen glasses of ale.

Then came the night when the physical and mental torture was so hellish I feared I would burst through my window, sash and all.

With a certain satisfaction I reflected there was enough gin concealed about the house to carry me through that night and the next day.

morning he searches madly for the bottle he misplaced the night before.

I remember having several more that night and plenty next morning.

Yet, in other moments, we found ourselves thinking, when enchanted by a starlit night, “Who, then, made all this?’’ There was a feeling of awe and wonder, but it was fleeting and soon lost.

One night, when confined in a hospital, he was approached by an alcoholic who had known a spiritual experience.

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He commences to look around in the night clubs, or their equivalent, for something besides liquor.

When we retire at night, we constructively review our day.

Your telephone may jangle at any time of the day or night.

You should point out that his defects of character are not going to disappear over night.

Dad may be tired at night and preoccupied by day.

There is talk about spiritual matters morning, noon and night.

He added that occasionally in the night a vague craving arose which would be satisfied by candy.

He entered a political campaign, making speeches, frequenting men’s gathering places of all sorts, often staying up all night.

They were willing, by day or night, to place a new man in the hospital and visit him afterward.

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