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stay all night verb phrase To spend the night.
1795 (in 1919 DeWitt Sevier Journal 181) (Nov 15) rained all Night. Mr. Ward staid all night. 1836 (in 2004 Bowman’s Ms) 54 From the ferry to Christiansburg 12 miles [I] turned off there and stayed all night. 1864 Hancock CW Letters (July 30) we run them off and took possession of their camps and stayed all night there. 1924 Raine Saddlebags 4 The lad conducted me across the three fords and bade me good night, adding in response to my hearty thanks—for it would have been an insult to offer him money—“Well ye better go home with me and stay all night.” 1939 Hall Coll (Maggie NC) I called and a woman come to the door, and I asked her about staying all night. I told her I was starved. 1954 GSMNP-19:15 Now you can’t stay all night unless you're pretty well known, because [in] this here log cabin they all have to sleep together and sometimes the beds ain’t two foot apart. 1991 Thomas Sthn Appal 117 He stayed all night with some of his customers who usually were anxious to have visitors.