Then they had The Portland Fancy and The Irish Washerwoman and The College Hornpipe, and at last the clock in the carriage house struck midnight and the guests departed in groups of twos and threes and fours, their cheerful voices sounding far down the village street.

Could I demolish with mine eye Strong towers, stop the fleet stars in sky, Bring down to earth the pale-faced moon, Or turn black midnight to bright noon; Though all things were put in my hand As parched, as dry as the Libyan sand Would be my life, if charity Were wanting.

"Spainthe night is fragrant with the sea and the perfume of the orange trees, you knowa midnight of stars and dreams.

Must even your womanhood reverse the clasps of your childhood?" "It chimes midnight twice," I saida Martial phrase meaning, 'I am as much in the dark as ever.'

on through the sleeping flowers, Through echoing midnight on to noon; How strange that yonder is New York, And here such silence and the moon.

Only know thyself and admit the knowledge: and all else will follow as sure as the morning sun follows the dark midnight.

The darkness of gathering midnight, brooding over all the land, hid from us the mighty crowds that were weaving restlessly about our carriage as a centrewe heard them, but we saw them not.

"Your Uncle Pros he got a revelation 'long 'bout midnight as to just whar that thar silver mine is that's been dodgin' him for more'n forty year.

She made a low courtesy; as much as to say, "Sir, I fall into your will and pleasure:" but I saw in her eye that she had made up her mind to have to do with things of fearful and portentous shape, and to hear many a midnight wailing in the surrounding woods.

"Back to town," he said; "unless you two want to jump the midnight Overland as it goes out and get away while you can.

He could tell nearly enough when it was noon, and if the stars were shining he knew midnight within a few minutes.

It was now approaching midnight, but the city, was still awake and stirring.

At the last moment, for he was to leave Rome the midnight following, she begged me to tell her how the acquaintance could be made, without derogation of Lord Rosebery's position between two portfolios.

LETTER VIII MISS CLARISSA HARLOWE, TO MISS HOWE MONDAY MIDNIGHT.

It was nearing midnight; sentries of the city, still under martial law, ordered him off the streets before he realized passing time....

But if there are accidents, and there will be, my good girl, then the authors of them will be forever unknown to all but thou and I. Wouldst prefer to pack this midnight or at cock crow, for packing is our task!"

The darkness of the Middle Ages reached its midnight, and slowly the dawn arose,musical with the chirping of innumerable trouvères and minnesingers.

So they were going out when the tide servedthe two boysat midnight for mackerel, and Dan had heard me wish for the experience so often, a long while ago, that he said, Why shouldn't they take the girls?

"A hardened and shameless tea-drinker," Johnson called himself, who "with tea amuses the evenings, with tea solaces the midnights, and with tea welcomes the mornings."

[Footnote 5: Suggested by a drawing in the possession of Charles Aders, Esq., in which is represented the Legend of a poor female Saint; who, having spun past midnight, to maintain a bed-rid mother, has fallen asleep from fatigue, and Angels are finishing her work.

The most diligent inquirer is not able long to keep his eyes open; the most eager disputant will begin about midnight to desert his argument; and, once in four-and-twenty hours, the gay and the gloomy, the witty and the dull, the clamorous and the silent, the busy and the idle, are all overpowered by the gentle tyrant, and all lie down in the equality of sleep.

This brought him down upon the raft, about midnight, when the conversation I have related took place, within a few yards of me, neither party having the least notion of the proximity of the other.