At eleven he had tea and muffins, and at midnight he began to crave again for hymns and sermons.
A little after midnight an overpowering desire seized him to go and wish the children good-night.
At midnight he opened the door for my grandmother and myself to enter, in disguise.
Upon these terms, after working hard all day for her mistress, she began her midnight bakings, assisted by her two oldest children.
We thought it right and proper that our Christian people should receive their freedom as a boon from God, in the house of prayer; and we gathered them together in the church for a midnight service.
His papers were seized, his house rifled and burned, his wife and children captured, and at midnight they were all carried on board the French ship Hero, without being allowed to take even a change of clothing.
Murmuring a prayer, they stepped forward boldly, like two lions bound on a midnight foray, and crossed the battlefield of yesterday, over corpses and broken armour and pools of blood.
But long before midnightall will be quiet there; so that will give me plenty of time for sleep, and in the daytime I will work with you.
At midnight they were to assemble in the square round the palace, which was to be suddenly attacked.
Rowing did not exhaust his physical energy, which broke out from time to time inmidnight fishing raids and walks from Cambridge to London.
He could find time to attend a morning police court when one of his boys got into difficulties, or to hold a midnight service for the outcasts of the pavement.
Towards midnight he kicked off his shoes, and wrote on, throwing the pages over his shoulder as fast as they were finished.
The prelude to this third bombardment of Santiago was a second trial of the Vesuvius atmidnight on the fifteenth, when she sent three more 250-pound charges of guncotton into the fortifications.
It was midnight when we completed our task, and we could take no further proceedings that night.
Soon after midnight the guests departed, at the imminent hazard of breaking their necks, either down Mrs. Black's ladder, or in the numerous holes that intervened between her residence and their respective abodes.
For ever in the good daylight A maiden may I go, But always on the ninth midnight I change to a milk white doe.
When strawberry pottles are common and cheap, Ere elms be black, or limes be sere, When midnight dances are murdering sleep, Then comes in the sweet o' the year!
We have horses and provisions in abundance, and can sleep unmolested with our wives and our children, without dreading the midnight attacks of our enemies.
There he worked until almostmidnight and through the school period he was busy with lessons, for he had come to a realization of the fact that educational training was necessary toward success in the business world.
In the darkness of midnight the shattered command mounted and followed at a gallop the faithful Timothy, on whose keen eyes and mind their satiation rested.
With that element as a nucleus, a committee called the committee of the hundred and one, was speedily organized and about midnight a strong body of men gathered in the courthouse square.
One regular job we had, and often we were up till midnight working at it, and that was to make sacks for the flour-mill which A.
That night the barge tied up on the Oregon side of the river and during the hours of darkness the mother kept tearful watch over the sick and wasted form of the father and her dying little girl, who about midnight passed away.
The midnight wedding ceremony at the old chapel terminated in a most terrific hurricane, and the new married couple were compelled to take refuge from the storm in the house of Bertha Morton.
They had scarce been able to make out each other's features at their midnight meeting on the terrace, and at that meeting, rejoiced as they both were, there was still a feeling of strangeness between them.
By midnight it was blowing a tremendous gale, which continued for three days.
It was near midnight before all of us were in our berths.
You think my cheek was flushed, perhaps, and my eyes were glittering with thismidnight flash of opportunity.
At midnight all was ready, and after a solemn mass had been celebrated by Father Olmedo, the Spaniards for the last time sallied forth from the ancient fortress, the scene of so much suffering and of such great courage.
About midnight Kunz and his men went as quietly as possible to the foot of the cliff.
It was midnight before the indignant pair reached Macraw's house, and the family were all asleep.
The midnight bell woke me: I could not believe that I had really passed three hours without consciousness of pain.
At midnight they were off St. Abbs Head, when the engineers reported that the case was hopeless; the engines had entirely ceased to work.
Sitting on the roof of the skylight, he nearly abandoned himself to despair, till the bell striking midnightsuddenly roused him.
About this time they were nearly ensnared by a Spanish ship, sent to the island at midnight under pretence of clandestine traffic.
About midnight they arrived within half-a-mile of Santa Maria, and landed.
About midnight the French, under cover of the dark, landed at the old town, about three leagues to the west of the more modern city.
Rowing softly, they reached about midnight a place called Estera de Longa lemos, where they all landed, and marched upon the outposts of the city.
Toward midnight a pretty and stylishly gowned young woman came in with an escort and joined in the dancing.
If the sailing be early in the evening, midnight is saluted by the lights of Port Townsend, than which no city on the Pacific Coast has a bolder or more beautiful situation.
We left Eagle in the forenoon and at midnight landed at Circle City, which received this name because it was first supposed to be located within the Arctic Circle.
The one that comes at midnightand stands silent beside a man when he sees the Northern Lights, even though he is not in love with her--what kind of woman is she?
You asked to be called if it wasn't midnight when we landed.
The accustomed coach life began again, now, and by midnight it almost seemed as if we never had been out of our snuggery among the mail sacks at all.
At midnight it began to rain, and I never saw anything like it--indeed, I did not even see this, for it was too dark.
It was long pastmidnight when he yielded to the intense drowsiness that overcame him.
We've heard the Midnight Leadsman That calls the black deeps down-- Ay, thrice we heard The Swimmer, The soul that may not drown.
During the spring that followed the winter of the beefsteak dinner many skirmishes, minor engagements, ambushes and midnightraids occurred.
George Kirwin says that long after midnight Joe awakened from a doze, fumbling through the bedclothes, looking for something.
Major Aldworth's train travelled more rapidly; by midnight on the 24th it had crossed the Mont Cenis and was running through Italian territory.
Leaving camp soon after midnight they crossed the Belgian frontier and moved to St. Jan Ter Beezen, just west of Poperinghe.
A tall and ancient clock ringingmidnight from clear, uncompromising bells, brought Barres to himself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "midnight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: black; dark; ebony; inky; midnight; night; pitchy; raven; sable; sloe
