The slaves and the freedmen who rode an underground railroad, seeking the light of justice under the cover of night -- they weathered a hard winter.

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At the start of the war, the stud moved east toward Russia to escape the advancing Germans, all the horses trotting under cover of night to escape the strafing aircraft.

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Vintners in the 1870s sold hooch to miners, and again during Prohibition, when bootleggers here ran wine into Los Angeles under the cover of night.

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The burial ground was so large that a machine had to be used to dig a hole, before Keiko was slid across the snow to the grave under the cover of night, with just seven people present.

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Some are so frightened of attack they hold their funerals at night under the cover of relatively safe darkness.

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