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Definition of Daytimes
1. daytime [n] - See also: daytime
Lexicographical Neighbors of Daytimes
Literary usage of Daytimes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1896)
"It was a monstrous big river down there— sometimes a mile and a half wide ; we
run nights, and laid up and hid daytimes; soon as night was most gone we ..."
2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
""Yes, if I can only make him mad enough daytimes," she asserted, "then at night,
when he thinks I 'm asleep, he comes and stands by my ..."
3. Cases on Measure of Damages by Isaac Franklin Russell (1909)
"He was a fellow that couldn't sleep daytimes very much. He would try. I would
often see him go to bed five or six times in one day, but he never could get ..."
4. Avesta: The Religious Books of the Parsees by Arthur Henry Bleeck, Friedrich Spiegel (1864)
"All the lords, the very great, praise we: the days, daytimes, monthly feasts,
yearly feasts, years. ... consist of five days each, and the daytimes are ..."
5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1878)
"He went therewith a large stock of books, to sell hy auction evenings and at
retail daytimes. The local trade took speedy alarm, and endeavored to put a ..."
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