Vernon T. Tynan's secret nocturnal meeting with Radenbaugh, and his offer of freedom in exchange for three-quarters of a million dollars, had been a stunner.

Yates, who was busy setting up John and Mary in New York, went down to Baltimore two or three times to participate in the nocturnal meetings.

The plaza was a place for nocturnal meetings, although the majority were of a far simpler, far older kind than two men planning international espionage.

Among secular persons, these nocturnal meetings were sometimes an occasion of grave abuses, especially in the matter of eating and drinking.

But there he is in "Khartoum," as Prime Minister Gladstone (a famously moral man) spelling out realpolitik to Gordon as he instructs him at a nocturnal train-station meeting.

It was believed that they would fly to their nocturnal meetings, known as the Witches' Sabbath, where they would have sexual intercourse with demons.

Although she had been sworn to secrecy by Ryder, Saffron blurted out a full account of the nocturnal meeting with Penrod Ballantyne in the Atbara gorge.

Louis had attempted to warn Sir Philip Mitchell, governor of the colony, that nocturnal meetings and forced oaths were not Kikuyu customs and foreboded violence, but was ignored.

Perhaps the nocturnal meetings in which he claimed to participate, with the dead and with other things, had turned his mind, or perhaps the meetings themselves were only symptoms of madness.

On this model, he organized several nocturnal meetings in the woods, near an oak which had been struck by lightning.