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small hours

pl.n.

The early hours after midnight.

small hours

pl n

the. the early hours of the morning, after midnight and before dawn

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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"

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small hours npl the small hours → le ore piccole
in the small hours → alle ore piccole

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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.

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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.

War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

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.

A Millionaire of Yesterday by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context

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