Although we arrived hours late, she was gracious enough to do the interview in the small hours of the morning.
Just this sudden waking in the small hours, these words given as though in revelation.
Hester—small, animated, highly rouged—opened the ball, and danced until the small hours “with astonishing elasticity.”
In the small hours the breeze weakened, then failed altogether.
They will be only turning us out in the small hours, to go home and face insomnia.
It was by this time in the small hours of a dark, moonless night.
It was the small hours, very near the time to relieve guard.
All her days, and her nights into the small hours, seemed to be filled.
Who had come to that deserted wing of the inn in the small hours, and on what business?
Why, it sounds like a clock that strikes thirteen in the small hours of the night!