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small hours

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small hours
pl.n.
The early hours after midnight.

small hours
Noun, pl
the early hours of the morning, after midnight and before dawn
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.small hours - the hours just after midnight
night, nighttime, dark - the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
time of day, hour - clock time; "the hour is getting late"
Translations
Spanish small hours npl in the small hours → a altas horas de la noche
French small hours npl in the small hours → au petit matin
German small hours small npl in the small hours → in den frühen Morgenstunden

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When I had read two or three of the small hours away and was as wide awake as ever, I found that a drink furnished the soporific effect.
Having set off in the small hours of the fourteenth, accompanied by a bugler and two Cossacks, Balashev reached the French outposts at the village of Rykonty, on the Russian side of the Niemen, by dawn.
In the small hours of the morning a burning spear came hurtling through the darkness and fell with a hiss and a quiver in the ground, only a few feet from where Trent and the boy lay.
 
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