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Hanging above the bed's head were those two famous chromos of "Good-Morning" and "Good-Night."
Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long
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The version popularly known as _Johnny Armstrong's Last Good-Night_, so dear to
Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Various
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"Perhaps Joe is on his way here," said I. "If so, Good-Night!"
Kathleen Christopher Morley 1923
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Then she kissed me Good-Night, and ran off amid jeers from the boys.
Nights in London Thomas Burke 1915
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"Good-Night" from the Chevalier in the Check-Room, they would escape to their Apartments and talk to the Dog.
Ade's Fables George Ade 1905
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We had, as it were, said _Good-Night_ to the town, though it was only half-past three in the afternoon.
A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900
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The ballad "Adieu, adieu my native shore," was suggested by "Lord Maxwell's Good-Night" in the "Border Minstrelsy," and introduces some romantic appurtenances: the harp, the falcon, and the little foot-page.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
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Sleep and take your rest as calmly and peacefully as you slept when your last "Good-Night" lengthened into eternity.
A Little Book of Western Verse Eugene Field 1872
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I over-heard him repeating here, in a kind of muttering tone, a line of the old ballad, 'Johnny Armstrong's Last Good-Night':
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. James Boswell 1767
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Turn'd to her mournful Cell, and bid the World Good-Night.
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