Daytimes were warm, but the cold scythed through the spruce forest in the depth of night, the temperatures cutting into the 20s.
It was 10 56 p.m. on July 20 in McLean, Virginia, in the depth of night, but July 21 at 5 56 a.m. in Addis Abba, where it was about sun-up in the morning, and at 11 56 a.m. in Jakarta, with the sun full throttle.
Though capable of the brightest and most scintillating colour, in the paintings he created as murals for a restaurant and later a non-denominational chapel he dives into the depths of night.
Perhaps only their largest influence, Robert Johnson, came close, with tales of him striking a deal with the devil in the depths of night at a crossroads in Mississippi.
The average depth of a night's sleep at 60 dB(A), calculated postulating stage W, 1, 2, 3 and 4 to be 0·0, 1·0, 2·0, 3·0 and 4·0, respectively, and REM to be 1·5, was significantly deeper than that at 35 and 40 dB(A).
I found in the depths of the night that a dark novel such as Cormac McCarthy's Suttree spoke to me.
"Frost at Midnight" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The poet muses in the depths of the night, by the side of his "cradled infant", on the life that his child shall live.
It spends the day at a depth of 1-3.7 km, and at night it rises into the upper water column, usually remaining below 85 m, but on rare occasions venturing to the surface.
Temperatures at the North Pole rose above freezing last December, the depths of the polar night; and temperatures there were 30C (54F) above normal.
"In the depths of the polar night," Dr Baddeley said, "when it's pitch black, and minus 20, it's reassuring to have the gun.
Jess ordered during each round, bought her own, yet seemed to sit before the same glass of wine drained to the same unvarying depth all night long.
