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On the night of Tuesday-Wednesday, the 12-13th, having been engaged reading and writing in her library until a late hour, and having dismissed the servants, whom she never would allow to sit up for her, as well as my brother and his wife, who always are in the habit of retiring early, Mrs.
William Makepeace Thackeray - The Newcomes : Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family

Friedrich's intention very certainly is to cross, here or not just here; and that same night, after some hours of rest to the Frankfurt people, night of Tuesday-Wednesday, Friedrich, having persuaded the Russians that his crossing-place will be their Redoubt at Schaumburg, marches ten or twelve miles down the River, silently his 30,000 and he, till opposite the Village of Gustebiese; rapidly makes his Bridges there, unmolested: Fermor, with his eye on the cannonaded Redoubt only, has expected no such matter; and is much astonished when he hears of it, twenty hours after.
Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18
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