night-walk

Such breakfast as he had, he took at the comfortless public-house where he had parted from Riderhood on the occasion of their night-walk.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

The first thing I did, on my own account, when I came back, was to take a night-walk to Norwood, and, like the subject of a venerable riddle of my childhood, to go 'round and round the house, without ever touching the house', thinking about Dora.

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

“Madcap Violet” appeared, all the unknown personages of that night-walk at Camberwell were straightway revealed to me.

Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 Reid, Stuart J 1905

Bedient took him for a night-walk over the hills for this.

Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Will Levington Comfort 1905

I set out on my long night-walk, stumbling over rocks and boulders in the darkness.

Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales 1893

And sure enough, when "Madcap Violet" appeared, all the unknown personages of that night-walk at Camberwell were straightway revealed to me.

Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 1887

The speaker was Ned Patton, old Patton's son, and Hurd's companion on many a profitable night-walk.

Marcella Humphry Ward 1885

I had ample leisure for reflection during that long night-walk, and found myself becoming a perfect Young -- Hervey -- Sturm -- what you will, in the way of meditation.

Birds of Prey 1875

"As Hamlet's ghost said when he was takin 'a night-walk to cool his-self," interposed Simkin.

Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan 1859

Of all the sights which attend a night-walk in a great city, not one attracted my notice.

Basil Wilkie Collins 1856