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by nights
(b) by nights: during the nights; at night, esp. usually or habitually.
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?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1137 Þa namen hi þa men þe hi wenden ðæt ani god hefden, bathe be nihtes & be dæies.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1449 Ȝiff þu cwemesst tin drihhtin. Bi daȝȝess. & bi nihhtess.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 4415 He greiðede his cnihtes & feorh færde bi nihttes [c1300 Otho niþte].
?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. pr. ii. 173 Ne these wrecches ne comen nat to the effect of sovereyn good, the whiche thei enforcen hem oonly to geten by nyghtes and by dayes.
a1500 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 43 (MED) God saue þis place fro alle oþer wykked wytes boþe be dayes & be nytes.
1584 T. Lodge Delect. Hist. Forbonius & Prisceria 30 Not waying of her many louing sightes, Her watrie eyes, her secret moane by nights.
1602 T. A. Massacre of Money sig. E4 Vice doth rule by day, Vertue by nights.
1638 R. Brathwait Psalmes of David v. 270 All ye..That servants in the Lords House be, before him stand by nights.
1685 W. Clark Grand Tryal ii. xv. 110 These shall be a simple Volary Where ill-presaging Owls by nights do cry.
1709 W. King Misc. Prose & Verse 251 Thou Goddess Famine, that canst send us Blights, With parching Heat by Day, and Storm by Nights.
1833 W. G. Simms Bk. my Lady 134 He pursued his way to his own nation in a sort of running march, resting by nights against a tree.
1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters ix. 168 The many floating Highland stories of spectral dead-lights and wild supernatural sounds, seen and heard by nights in lonely places of sepulture.
1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 15 And still nowanights and by nights of yore do all bold floras..say only: Cull me ere I wilt to thee!
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