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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

... a day in returning from the Dalles to Portland, and arriving there in the evening can set out the next morning for Olympia, on Puget Sound, by way of Kalama, which is the Columbia River terminus for the present of the Northern Pacific Railroad. It is possible to go by steamer from Portland to Victoria, and then return down Puget Sound to Olympia; but to ...

— Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands • Charles Nordhoff

... jackals went away with the cow, and after getting outside the village the jackals again warned Kara not to ask the cow for anything when anyone was by and took their leave of him and went home. Kara continued his journey and at evening arrived at a large mango orchard in which a number of carters were camping for the night. So Kara stopped under a tree at a little distance from the carters and tied his cow to the root. Soon a storm came up and the carters all took shelter underneath ...

— Folklore of the Santal Parganas • Cecil Henry Bompas

... evening the young man called. Mrs. Hartley, the bride of his friend, endeavored to forget the past, and to receive him with all the external signs of forgetfulness. But, in this she did not fully succeed, and, of course, the visit of Florence was painfully embarrassing, at least, to himself. ...

— Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures • T. S. Arthur

... Yet that evening he spent with Ishmael and the Parson, and the next day a grey uncertain morning of blown clouds found Ishmael and Killigrew both seated in the train while she waved her handkerchief at them from a receding platform. And if that handkerchief were to be wet with ...

— Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse

... dear Miss Valentine, having related this remarkable adventure, I am about to relate one even more remarkable. It occurred this very evening, between seven and eight o'clock. I had been off for the day with the village goat-boy and his flock—the dear creatures, who have never had their bells removed to be painted over with Swiss landscapes and offered for sale as souvenir bric-a-brac. I had patted ...

— Shapes that Haunt the Dusk • Various

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