| This was my first entrance into fashionable life at one of Madame Bodisco's birthnight balls. |
| It was night at Boston, the birthnight of one of the leading events in the history of the world. |
| How gladly would I have recompensed the forester who lit up a brake on my birthnight, which else had warmed him half the winter! |
| Washington was among the punters, and twice attended the annual Birthnight Ball held here in his honour. |
| He had been unexpectedly startled on Ruth's birthnight by a vague something in Kemp's eyes. |
