All this passed the midnight hours, and then I lay down for a little rest, but not for sleep.

In addition to a provoking short-sightedness (the effect of late studies and watchings at the midnight oil) D. is the most absent of men.

These midnight rides must be detrimental to the constitution of any steady horse, and he often wakes me up at night, pawing impatiently under the window while his master is making his lingering adieux on the door-step.

There we saw also the "Oscar Wisting Mountains," the "Olav Bjaaland Mountains," the "Sverre Hassel Mountains," which, dark and red, glittered in the rays of the midnight sun and reflected a white and blue light.

To ask God to grant us health and peace of heart, as the hymn for Sext sings: "O God, Who canst not change nor fail, Guiding the hours as they go by, Brightening with beam the morning pale, And burning in the midnight sky,

My midnight visitor took the other corner of the fireplace.

Stoddard has probably gone in to Watauga and taken the midnight train for Boston.

But at night, when silence and sleep on the lonely hamlet fell Like a spirit clad in white through the graveyard gate she passed, And the stars bent down to hear, "I have come to you, love, at last," While through the valley solemnly sounded the midnight bell.

How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead, Through breathing statues, then unheeded things, Through rows of warriors, and through walks of kings!

In the mournful silence of midnight air You hear on its stately and winding stair The echoes of fairy feet.

Henbane and Poppey, and that magicall weed Which Hags at midnight watch to catch the seed.

The midnight mass preceding Christmas day.

Chippenfield's theory seemed plausible enough at first sight, but Rolfe now recalled that he knew nothing of the missing letters and Hill's midnight visit to Riversbrook to recover them.

Awhile successful in his career; At length assailed by adverse winds, and on an hostile shore, He was captured; And being soon after brought to Paris, Was confined in the prison called the Temple, Infamous for midnight murders, And placed in the most rigid custody: But in bonds, And suffering severities still more oppressive, His fortitude of mind and fidelity to his country Remained unshaken.

"Come over here and help us decide what we'll eat for our first midnight feast at Three Towers Hall.

The large ragwortknown in Ireland as the "fairies' horse"has long been sought for by witches when taking their midnight journeys.

When these people wish to commit robberies, by means of incantations addressed to the demons, they have the means of obscuring the air as if it were midnight darkness, that they may not be seen from any distance.

Mandrake the magician and the midnight monster.

the wily fox remained, A subtle, pilfering foe, prowling around 24 In midnight shades, and wakeful to destroy.

He died suddenly, in the prime of life, in the midst of one of his riotous midnight orgies, and the house has ever since been deserted.

Everything was quiet,not the solemnity of midnight silence, in which there is always something of mystery, but the soft-breathing quiet of the evening, full of the faint habitual sounds of a human dwelling, a consciousness of life about.

All his life Lear had been lubricating the chute that was to give him a quick ride out into that black midnight storm.

Therefore I should begin my effective ascent from a point of the Earth as far as possible from the Sun; that is, on the midnight meridian.

But full oft Black Roger lifted his bronzed right handthe hand that had felt Beltane's sudden kissand needs must he view it with eyes of wonder, as if it had been indeed some holy thing, what time he kept his midnight vigil beside the fire.

The Neapolitan witches held their tryst under a walnut tree near Benevento, and at Bologna the peasantry tell how these evil workers hold a midnight meeting beneath the walnut trees on St. John's Eve.