goodnight

CEFRA1

/ɡˈʊˌdnaɪt/

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I pray you ſpeake not: he growes worſe & worſe / Queſtion enrages him: at once, goodnight.
So goodnight to you—and goodnight, Councilor.
George wakes, hearing the confused goodnights of the departing guests.

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I pray you ſpeake not: he growes worſe & worſe / Queſtion enrages him: at once, goodnight.
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard,...
So goodnight to you—and goodnight, Councilor.
1914 September – 1915 May, Arthur Conan Doyle, “Lodge 341, Vermissa”, in The Valley of Fear: A Sherlock Holmes Novel, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 27 Fe...
At last the pupils had all taken their hats and said their “Goodnights,” and Adam, knowing his old master's habits, rose and said, “Shall I put the candles out, Mr. Massey?”
1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Adam Bede […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC
The afternoon passed into evening, and the sparrows began to twitter their goodnights in their lodgings on the roof and crevices of the chimney; […]
1873, E. H. D. Kay, Emma Simonet, Twilight Stories, page 153
George wakes, hearing the confused goodnights of the departing guests.
1919, Monica M. Gardner, The Anonymous Poet of Poland: Zygmunt Krasinski, page 114

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