| 1. | beautiful nocturnal son, the full-limb'd Bacchus. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | I am beginning to feel this nocturnal existence tell on me. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 3. | "At the scene of your nocturnal adventures, the Bournemouth nursing home.. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 4. | The nocturnal rat peers from his hole. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 5. | Now from nocturnal sweat and sanguine stai. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 6. | "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the very peculiar words of the dying woman. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 7. | d'Avrigny had communicated, in his nocturnal walk to M. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 8. | This multitude undulated confusedly in the nocturnal gloom. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 9. | Ali was his principal attendant during this nocturnal survey. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |