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Eve n.

Evening. (Poetic) "Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze."

The evening before a holiday, from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset, not at midnight; as, Christmas eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event. "On the eve of death."

Eve churr (Zoöl.), the European goatsucker or nightjar; called also night churr, and churr owl.

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Etymology of 'Eve'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Eve" Quotes from Famous Books

... the sins. On the day on which Eve gave way to her curiosity, man broke off his communion with the angels and allied himself with the beasts. To-day we usually applaud curiosity; we think of it as the alternative to stagnation. The tradition of mankind, however, is against us. The fables never pretend ...

— The Pleasures of Ignorance • Robert Lynd

... abomination. As with their Temple so with their vows and sacrifices. All are useless because of their wickedness. The nation must be punished. The second verse may well have been uttered after the defeat at Megiddo, or may be a prediction on the eve of that disaster to the branches of the nation, which the nation as ...

— Jeremiah • George Adam Smith

... generous character, frank and gay, Father Griffen was mischievously hostile and mocking where women were concerned. He was continually making jests upon the daughters of Eve; these temptresses, these diabolical allies of the Serpent. In justice to Father Griffen, we must say that he showed in his railleries, otherwise without malice, a little rancor and contempt; he jested lightly on the subject of a happiness ...

— A Romance of the West Indies • Eugene Sue

... eventually brought her. No one could picture her flinching or turning back along a road she had set out to follow; if it had run in blood, she would have gone on in bare feet, not picking her steps, and yet Hartley dreamed of apple orchards and an Eve in a white ...

— The Pointing Man - A Burmese Mystery • Marjorie Douie

... think that the scornful apostle had the Garden of Eden in his eye when he speaks so bitterly to Timothy of a class of people who are cursed with 'itching ears.' Eve's ears itched unappeasably for the devil's promised secret; and we have all inherited our first mother's miserable curiosity. How eager, how restless, how importunate, we all are to hear that new thing that does not at all concern us; or only concerns us to our loss ...

— Bunyan Characters - Third Series - The Holy War • Alexander Whyte

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