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Example sentences for "about midnight"

  • After the march forward from Maltzhorn their preparations were completed at about midnight, and shortly after they attacked from a position to the left of the Rangers' assembly trenches towards the Quadrilateral.

  • The 30th June opened with a heavy barrage on W sector and HĂ©buterne at about midnight, but this subsided after a few minutes and little further activity was displayed by the enemy during the early morning hours.

  • The Column reached Famars thoroughly tired out one wet night at about midnight, and halted in rear of the advancing troops.

  • The two slaves and I waited impatiently for his return, and at length, about midnight, we saw the boat coming down with two men in it, and a woman lying along in the stern.

  • About midnight Alla ad Deen's mother conducted the bride to the nuptial apartment, and he soon after retired.

  • About midnight I heard a voice like that of a man reading the Koraun, after the same manner, and in the same tone as it is read in our mosques.

  • About midnight, after the magician had satisfied the master of the house for what little he had called for, he went out, and proceeded directly to the cell of Fatima.

  • About midnight, on my asking for horses at some stage, the name of which I forget, they told me that the next stage was the fortified town of Aire, which we should not be allowed to pass through at midnight.

  • About midnight, as I was ready to go to bed, and just as I was opening my door to take the key from outside, an abbe rushed panting into my room and threw himself on a chair.

  • About midnight, the father came in jovially, and asked me how I had enjoyed my supper.

  • When we were left alone he gave me an account of his interview with the auditor, who had come to entreat his eminence to give orders to turn out of his palace a person who was supposed to have taken refuge in it about midnight.

  • About midnight, he called up two of his freedmen, Cleanthes, his physician, and Butas, whom he chiefly employed in public business.

  • At last it was resolved, about midnight, to bring Nymphidius into the camp, and declare him emperor.

  • At about midnight, the artillery momentarily ceased, and the Australian infantrymen crept from the end of their tunnelled communications which had been constructed under No Man's Land.

  • About midnight, three companies of the 15th Battalion, 4th Australian Infantry Brigade, arrived and were sent up to reinforce the 1st Australian Division away on the right.

  • About midnight on the night of our arrival at Kubri, a party of Turks made a great show of liveliness, evidently to draw fire and so obtain some information as to our strength and dispositions.

  • I awoke, on my own calculation, about midnight—it was pitch dark, and there was much fear upon me.

  • About midnight I was awakened by a noise; I started up and listened; it appeared to me that I heard voices and groans.

  • And the Hollanders shot affe 7 peces ordinance out of the Son about midnight, and 9 chambers out of howse, in honor of their New Years Day to morrow.

  • I awoke, on my own calculation, about midnight--it was pitch dark, and there was much fear upon me.

  • About midnight, when it was pitch dark, he roused me, with the words, 'They are coming!

  • The Colonel told us of the position which we were in, stating that we were nearly surrounded, and that an attempt would be made at about midnight to get out.

  • About midnight, at last we reached the southern end of the sand hills, and encamped without water.

  • Robinson struck off from the party on a due west course, and I marched the detachment for a copse of wood which we could barely discern in the southwest, and reached it about midnight.

  • We did not leave our seclusion until about midnight, and then felt our way with extreme care.

  • About midnight I was ordered to proceed to a ford of the Chickamauga and relieve a brigade of Palmer's division, commanded by Colonel Grose.

  • At about midnight, never dreaming of the stupid act that the Amildar was contemplating in his mind, every one fell asleep, and Gundappa rose up, and with a pair of scissors cut off all the locks of his officers.

  • They went on trotting, and at last, about midnight, stopped on the banks of a large tank.

  • The column from Newport News marched at about midnight of the 9th, and the column from Hampton earlier in the evening, the distance being greater.

  • At about midnight, one of these pieces broke away from its fastening and began plunging against the side of the vessel.

  • About midnight of the 28th, the picket line near the river on the southwest was driven in, and could not be re-established by the brigade which furnished it.

  • About midnight we had just emerged from the woods and, halting in the road, stood leaning on our guns.

  • About midnight we were relieved by a brigade of the 9th Corps, and went into camp.

  • About midnight we were aroused, and falling into line moved to the right about a mile, where our corps joined the 6th corps which occupied a position in the woods, and there we formed in line of battle.

  • About midnight, with the heavy going, he began to show signs of exhaustion.

  • About midnight we almost stumbled over a herd of them, and one fine old whiteface arose at our request and let us milk her.

  • The night was cloudy at first, with sprinkling rain, but cleared up about midnight into a clear, cold autumn night.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about dark; about eight; about eleven; about five; about forty; about half the length; about him; about his; about sixteen; about that; about the; about the same period; about the same size; about their; about then; about three; about twenty; about two hundred yards; cold feet; come till; grant thee; just the; lock canal; recent fiction; seated himself; story brick