Night Journey

noun

, Islam.

the journey in which Muhammad was carried from Mecca to Jerusalem and ascended into heaven.

I did not recover from the effects of that night-journey for a long time.

To get a middle seat in a crowded carriage, for an all-night journey, with the windows shut?

How unlike were all the surroundings to those of an ordinary modern night-journey over the mail-routes of Europe!

Others, not caring for the night-journey through a mountain-country in fast-falling snow, waited courageously for the dawn.

We had a pleasant all-night journey, arriving very early the next morning at Ostend.

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