| Before sailing, on a day in late December, Roark went to take a last look at the site of Cortlandt. | |
| He switched off his phone at 8:45 that night. | |
| I longed to be his; I panted to return: it was not too late; I could yet spare him the bitter pang of bereavement. | |
| Meanwhile, the parents – perhaps a little busy at work, running late, running errands – want a little slack to pick the kids up late. | |
| It also realizes that the time for wagering on reform in Syria has passed, and that it is now too late for that. | |
| Actually, even by the late 1920s, only a half dozen or so industrial corporations had significant research organizations. | |
| Adam moved the slats of the blind so that the late afternoon sun would not shine in his eyes, and he gazed down at the harsh parallel lines the sun threw on his desk. | |
| The secret is simmer the pork the night before. | |
| Besides, it was getting late, and my decent harpooneer ought to be home and going bedwards. | |
| The soft golden dusk is already transmogrifying itself into the blue star-sprinkled night. | |
| Night settled over the temple, lit once more only by the light emanating from the marble statue. | |
| Because we all knew the dangers that night, but we went anyway. | |
| Tracy left her hotel in the late afternoon and walked along Canal Street until she came to a pawn shop. | |
| When the baby woke up and started crying in the middle of the night, the inebriated woman put him beside her on the bed in order to nurse him, however, she quickly fell asleep. |
