1855 Sci. Amer. 10 246/3 The back of the [railroad car] seat may be..elevated into the proper position for night riding.

1875 Chicago Tribune 6 Nov. 3/6 To-night..there is to be a ‘night riding’ and shooting..to arouse a degree of uneasiness in the darky's mind and cause him..not to go to the election.

1909 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 104/1 Night riding began as soon as the farmers' associations were organised.

1944 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 52 9/2 Suppose now that wheat producers..should organize and prohibit, by night-riding or by securing appropriate legislation, the use for wheat-raising of any land.

1991 Past & Present Aug. 139 A seventeenth-century Swabian whom reliable witnesses implicated in night-riding and other demonic activities.

1802 C. Lamb Conceipt of Diabolical Possession in John Woodvil 121 Night-riding Incubi Troubling the phantasie.

1830 J. F. Cooper Water Witch II. xii. 238 Those night-riding, horse-racing blacks have taken possession of Alida's pavillion.

1851 G. P. R. James Henry Smeaton 128/1 Highland clansmen and night-riding borderers..were all hurrying out to gain further intelligence of the enemy.

1897 Catholic World May 249 Some foolish whites, in the night-riding Ku-klux-klan, Sought for mastery by underhanded means.

1952 C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil Aeneid x. 215 The gentle Moon's Night-riding horses were pacing halfway across the heavens.

1998 N.Y. Times 19 July i. 4/6 Catholic schools have been set afire by night-riding Protestant vigilantes.