3826 examples of midnight in sentences
At midnight the Nawab's eunuch came to inform Law that the English had been repulsed with loss, and on the morning of the 16th the Nawab's troops were ordered to advance, but when the same day news came that the French had withdrawn into the Fort, every one cried out that the Fort must fall, and that it was mere folly to incense the English by sending down troops.
Will you meet me in this place at midnight tomorrow?"
THE MIDNIGHT MEETING.
Often have I heard him invoke me in accents of the wildest despair, and have floated past him on the midnight breeze, but could neither impart consolation to him nor make him sensible of my presence, because his grief was sinful.
As the hour of midnight was tolled forth by the neighbouring churches, he heard footsteps, and could just detect a figure advancing towards him.
And, as the Indian traders have assembled on the spot, the more improvident of the party immediately proceed to exhibit their sugar and furs, which are usually disposed of for flour and pork, blankets and knives, guns, ammunition, and a great variety of trinkets, long before the hour of midnight.
They may be heard through the day, if one listens, like a solemn undertone to all the shallow noises of the town; but at midnight, when all else is still, those successive shocks fall upon the ear with a sensation of inexpressible solemnity.
It looks just as bad as it is; round, only seven paces across, yet so obscure that our tapers could not illuminate it from side to side,the stones of which it is constructed being as black as midnight.
Thou com'st for me at midnight-hour.
MIDNIGHT Four gray women enter FIRST
"Within the midnight of her hair, Half hidden in its deepest deeps, A single, peerless, priceless pearl (All filmy-eyed) forever sleeps.
"Midnight" is a poem full of originality and vigor, with that suggestion of deepest meaning which is so much more effective than definite statement.
It is only your pseudo-saint, who cuddles himself for the pulpit and the platform, and keeps the safety-valve down with midnight sittings while "rosining up" the furnaces with strong coffee, that will come to grief by collapse of flues.
After tormenting the wearied old man in this way until nearly midnight he permitted him to go to his quarters.
About midnight the horizon began to be overcast; and the darkness increased until in the thick forest, I could scarcely see a yard before me.
After midnight, I passed near a large house, with fruit trees around it.
" "Then we'd better start again about midnight.
After dark he slept three hours, to be followed by Tayoga for the same length of time, and about midnight they started up the stream again, with their food cooked and ready beside them.
" He returned to the bungalow with Blackton, and until midnight the lights there burned brightly while the two men answered a thousand questions about the night's adventure, and Aldous told of his and Joanne's plans for the honeymoon trip into the North that was to begin the next day.
I'll conceal myself fifty or sixty yards from camp, and if we have visitors before midnight the fun will all be mine.
He had planned not to awaken old Donald at midnight, but MacDonald roused himself, and came to take his place a little before twelve.
The next, their fifth, his watch was from midnight until morning.
It was at the deep midnight hour when he announced his mysterious presence, by laying his icy hand and spreading his marble paleness over the form of the departing sister.
There had been a ceremony at midnight in the Church of St. Sulpice, and her Excellency the Baroness Stahl, née de St. Cyr, accompanied him.
Surrounded by the body-guard we have seen, through all the years 1816, 1817, and 1818, now in Venezuela, now in New Granada, in the Plains to-day, in the mountains to-morrow, enduring every privation, braving odds apparently the most overwhelming, fighting pitched battles at midnight, and triumphantly effecting surprises in the open day, he maintained alive, in the midst of general discouragement, the cause he had espoused.