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1  Some even had sat up o nights for him.
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2  The night did not seem to last an hour.
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3  He shook hands and vanished in the night.
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4  At night I slept, or tried to, on the couch.
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5  I was strangely cocksure of everything that night.
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6  The traffic of the great city went on in the deepening night upon the sleepless river.
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7  When the sun rose there was a white fog, very warm and clammy, and more blinding than the night.
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8  The night was very clear: a dark blue space, sparkling with dew and starlight, in which black things stood very still.
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9  There was an old hippo that had the bad habit of getting out on the bank and roaming at night over the station grounds.
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10  Nevertheless, I was annoyed beyond expression at the delay, and most unreasonably too, since one night more could not matter much after so many months.
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11  I suppose Kurtz wanted an audience, because on a certain occasion, when encamped in the forest, they had talked all night, or more probably Kurtz had talked.
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12  I felt an intolerable weight oppressing my breast, the smell of the damp earth, the unseen presence of victorious corruption, the darkness of an impenetrable night.
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13  He stood there for a moment in the moonlight with his delicate hooked nose set a little askew, and his mica eyes glittering without a wink, then, with a curt Good night, he strode off.
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14  At night sometimes the roll of drums behind the curtain of trees would run up the river and remain sustained faintly, as if hovering in the air high over our heads, till the first break of day.
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15  There was a pause of profound stillness, then a match flared, and Marlow's lean face appeared, worn, hollow, with downward folds and dropped eyelids, with an aspect of concentrated attention; and as he took vigorous draws at his pipe, it seemed to retreat and advance out of the night in the regular flicker of the tiny flame.
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