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Overnight

adverb

During or for the length of one night.

Happening in a short time or with great speed.

adjective

Lasting, open, or operating through the whole night. Synonyms: all-night, nightlong. "An all-night drugstore" , "An overnight trip"

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"Overnight" Quotes from Famous Books

... the next morning to a sense that her life had somehow lost its savour; the exaltation of her resolve overnight had gone off and left her spirits flat and dead; but she came down, nevertheless, determined to be staunch and true ...

— The Talking Horse - And Other Tales • F. Anstey

... you," said the girl, "but I must find somewhere to stay before night, and if I find a place I must take it. I just came to the city this morning, and have nowhere to stay overnight." ...

— The Mystery of Mary • Grace Livingston Hill

... you are good for eighteen hours of wide-awakeness subsequently—eighteen hours of the very most inconceivable wide-awakeness that you ever experienced in your life. A stranger died on our hands one time, aid we vacated and left him in our room overnight. Did that stranger wait for the general judgment? No, sir; he got up at five the next morning in the most prompt and unostentatious way. I knew he would; I knew it mighty well. He collected his life-insurance, and lived happy ever after, for there was plenty of proof as ...

— The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories • Mark Twain

... stay overnight, we pushed on over the Rubicon River, up the hill on part of the Georgetown road for a mile and a half,—from which we had a fine view of Buck Island Lake,—struck the trail for another mile and in the early afternoon made camp at Rock Bound Lake. Here we rowed and swam, studied the country ...

— The Lake of the Sky • George Wharton James

... "It was very bad," said he. "You've grown horns, hoofs, and a tail overnight. There's nothing too criminal to have escaped your notice. I have been forbidden to consort with you. So has the general. The battle of last night had to do with your coming to the house at all. As it is not Carroll's house, naturally she has no ...

— The Riverman • Stewart Edward White

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