night scenen.

1683 J. Dryden & N. Lee Duke of Guise iv. ii. 41 (stage direct.) Enter Malicorne solus. A Night-Scene.

1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 103 These things will make the day dead and melancholy, but the night-scenes will have more of horrour in them: when the blazing-stars appear.

1700 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother iv. iii A night Scene of the Temple of the Sun.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. iii. 317 A Conversation of the same free nature as that recited by our Author in his Night-Scene.

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iii. ii. 10 A Night-Scene, wherein several wonderful Adventures befel Adams. View more context for this quotation

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 159 As to the night-scene, it could not affect the justice, who had been purposely lodged in the farther end of the house, remote from the noise.

1831 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1839) X. 115 Garrick's acting, particularly in the night-scene, drew down universal applause.

1879 G. Meredith Egoist III. ix. 178 Crossjay informed him of his disgrace at the Hall, and of every incident connected with it..save Miss Middleton's adventure, and the night-scene in the drawing-room.

1904 H. James Golden Bowl (1909) iv. 283 The upshot of the night-scene on the terrace had condemned our young woman to make terms.

1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 July b10 There's an exterior night scene that evokes an atmosphere of early Fellini.

a1798 T. Pennant Tour on Continent (1948) 138 Visited M. Trautman,..a good painter of night scenes and heads in imitation of Rembrandt.

1811 P. B. Shelley St. Irvyne x. 191 To my heated imagination, the winds, which in stern cadence swept along the night-scene, whistled tidings of death and annihilation.

1932 A. C. Hardy & F. H. Perrin Princ. Optics xi. 234 Photographs of landscapes taken by infrared light have the general appearance of night scenes.

1992 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Feb. 21/1 The first Lucian Freud self-portrait in this retrospective..is an outdoors night-scene painted in a faux naif, Magic Realist style.

2001 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 19 Sept. 31 Until that moment, I had only seen that night scene in movies. And here it was: the astonishing nighttime skyline of New York.

1992 F. Kippax Butcher's Bill 149 The febrile atmosphere of pre-disaster London had already wrought a gear-change in the night scene.

1999 in D. Bolger Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel 116 She could hardly make her entrance upon the hotel's night scene..with her usual natural..appearance.