witching hour

So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.
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An hour later, he scored a second flight to Johannesburg for $380.
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He was released within the hour without a bond on his own recognizance.
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The child almost died from the delay of an hour in seeking help.
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Her phone rings at least once an hour with questions from journalists, which she answers in Arabic, English, and sometimes French.
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The night wore on, and the clock downstairs was striking the hour of two when she suddenly awakened.
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The sound of my step shall make your heart jump; a look from me shall make you dumb for an hour.
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Words are often everywhere as the minute-hands of the soul, more important than even the hour-hands of action.
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After an hour, however, he reached this decision: He would not go to or call up Mrs. Merley.
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It was the darkest hour of twilight, when there was just enough of gleam from the lurid sky, to shew the outline of objects.
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British Dictionary definitions for witching hour

witching hour

noun

the witching hour the hour at which witches are supposed to appear, usually midnight

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witching hour

Midnight, as in They arrived just at the witching hour. This term alludes to older superstitions concerning a time appropriate to witchcraft and other supernatural occurrences. Shakespeare and others wrote of “the witching time of night.” The precise phrase was first recorded in 1835.

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