and two hours before midnight he rolled out of Córdova, having beaten in the grisly race.

" "I will be back before midnight tomorrow," was their captor's reply.

We paced to and fro in front of the barracks, taking good care not to disturb the sleepers, until perhaps half an hour before midnight, and then the sergeant came up, looking much like a man who has just settled a very disagreeable question.

It won't require two hours' travelling because there's no call to make a very wide circuit, an', in case these fellows pull themselves together before midnight, them as stays on watch can warn our people.

Long before midnight throngs of refugees had begun to arrive, followed later by soldiers.

Before midnight we learned what little there was to know.

A little before midnight, in Daphne, near one of those booths where the caterers prepare hot meals, a man strode up to where some slaves were seated around a fire.

Before midnight on the 13th of July, the whole of the vast amphitheatre was filled with a dense crowd, in its gayest holiday attirea marvelous and magnificent sight from its mere numbers; and early the next morning the heads of the procession began to defile under the arch at the entrance of the plainLa Fayette, at the head of the National Guard, leading the way.

The two letters he left with the trusty porter to be delivered before midnight; and, with a heavy heart, leaving all that was dear on earth behind him, he journeyed ondrawn, like the mariner in the old story, to the Loadstone Rock.

Then the General issued his orders for the final assault; and long before midnight each regiment in camp knew its allotted place in the coming attack on the city.

He committed no act of luxury or haughtiness, but lived like one of the multitude: the entire day he spent in proximity to the palace and often he would go there even shortly before midnight, when some of the others were beginning to sleep.

Every evening the clouds were piled upon one another in such a way that we were continually expecting to see a water-spout; it was generally not before midnight that the heavens would gradually clear up, and allow us to admire the beautiful and dazzling constellations of the South.

But when she reached home just before midnight, her mind was made up.

A small party of their lancers, she said, had come in that very afternoon, and a whole division was expected before midnight.

JOHN They cannot be introduced with propriety before midnight.

"What time is the division expected?" "Not before midnight.

The pass would state that I was a suspected spy and that if before midnight of the 26th of August I were found off the direct road to Brussels, or if by that hour I had not reported to the military governor of Brussels, any one could shoot me on sight.

Tales before midnight.

The third night after the action, being curious to understand how affairs stood, I took the supercargo and twenty stout fellows with me, and landed about two hours before midnight, at the same place where those Indians stood the night before, and there we divided our men into two bodies, the boatswain commanding one, and I another.

He lay down in a thicket of tall grass and bushes, resolved not to start before midnight, and he felt so much at peace that before he knew he was going to sleep he was sleeping.

Every evening he sallied forth to teach in the cabins, and roving far and wide over mountain and amid bogs, was seldom home before midnight.

General Hunter arrived before midnight.

" "Half an hour before midnight," insisted Lambert, "on the cliffs at Epple Bay.

I've got to join my regiment at the Gaxe du Nord before midnight, but I'd like to ring in another job like this before that.

"But here's this much in it, Maisie," I went on, taking care that there was no one near us that could catch a word of what I was saying; "I can tell you where the spot is that I'm to do the business at, for a fine lonely spot it is to be in at the time of night I'm to be therean hour before midnight, and the place is that old ruin that's close by where Till meets Tweedyou know it well enough yourself.