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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

... came in the evening, with another gentleman, his friend, one Mr. Dormer; and he entertained us with the favourable opinion, he said, every one had of me, and of the choice my good ...

— Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded • Samuel Richardson

... stepped over and were promptly executed. Like Custer's band, not one escaped. On the evening of the 28th, 600 were sighted just over the line, and the army of 125 brave men entrenched themselves for the battle which was expected to open next morning. Before daylight of the 29th the battle began. The elk were over the line, feeding on Buffalo Flats. One hundred and twenty-five men ...

— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday

... great farm-horses always seemed to be coming from or going to their work on the downs. In a garden planted with variegated firs she tended her flowers all day; and in the parlour, where we assembled in the evening, her husband smoked his pipe in silence; the young ladies, their blonde hair hanging down their backs, played waltzes; she alone talked. Her conversation was effusive, her laughter abundant and bright. I had only just turned eighteen, and was deeply interested in religious problems, and one ...

— Memoirs of My Dead Life • George Moore

... remained in the sweltering heat of the July sun without air or ventilation, under the continuing fire of the enraged men on the shore, until they finally surrendered. They were imprisoned by the strikers in a rink, and in the evening they were sent out of town by rail. The number of dead on both sides was twelve, and over twenty were ...

— Violence and the Labor Movement • Robert Hunter

... group of friends around a table one evening not long ago, in one of the dining rooms of the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver. The dining room was done in dark stained oak, the waiters whispered to each other in foreign tongues, French and German; on the walls of the room were pictures of foreign scenes painted by ...

— Tales of the Road • Charles N. Crewdson

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