1853 C. Brontë II. xxvi. 256 She checked at intervals her velvet march; inclined her ear, and consulted the night sounds: I should rather say, the night silence.
1889 ‘M. Twain’ xliii. 560 The stillness was death-like. True, there were the usual night-sounds of the country.
2001 I. McEwan 200 They listened to the night sounds they had grown used to.