The Old Year was gone, with all its sins and errors, its golden gleams and midnight storms, its midsummer days of sunshine for some, its winter nights of starless gloom for others.
I believe at that moment, to please her, he would have cut down the best timber on the estates--even the old oaks, in whose shadow in the midsummer of centuries before Guy Vivian and Muriel had plighted their troth.
The band at Berns' was playing the Wedding March from "A Midsummer Night's Dream," when to the accompaniment of its inspiriting strains Olle Montanus made his entry into the Red Room.
We'll print the Grimm history in our new Midsummer Almanac.
At half-past five on the midsummer Sunday morning, the Austrian advance guard led by Colonel Pulz came up with Prince Humbert's division near Villafranca.
Both sides were much tried by the scorching midsummer sun, but the Italians laboured under the additional drawback of having to fight fasting.
I have often had to tell you that many of our holiday practices and usages were founded upon ancient heathen rites and ceremonies; this is perhaps more observable in connection with Midsummer Eve than upon any other holiday occasion.
Midsummer Day is the 24th June; this is also the day upon which the birth of St. John the Baptist is celebrated by the Christian Church.
In one short week midsummer will have come, that beautiful holiday of the summer solstice, whose festal observance is, in England, of great antiquity.
In due time the hardy darlings showed their pretty green shoots, and before midsummer they stood up in budded rows, ready to be staked, and about the thirteenth of July the bed burst into splendid bloom.
These little butterflies may often be seen visiting the midsummer flowers but are fully as likely to be found along the sides of a shady road, where they rest upon the leaves of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants.
A large proportion of our midsummer butterflies are members of this tribe.
If the egg was laid by one of the spring or early summer butterflies, the chrysalis will soon change to a butterfly which will appear toward midsummer and which may lay eggs for another brood of caterpillars.
In northern regions this butterfly is single-brooded: the adults appear shortly before midsummer and continue on the wing through July and at least part of August.
The butterflies appear from midsummer onward, the males preceding the females, and the eggs are laid on or near violets in August or September.
These butterflies may be seen rather frequently from midsummer on, visiting various flowers and sipping the juices from decaying fruits beneath the trees.
They flower about Midsummerand July, and their seed is ripe in the latter end of July or August.
They all flower from Midsummer until September sometimes, and in the mean time the seed ripens.
The brightest hope she had in these midsummer holidays was the hope of a letter from him; and even that might be the prelude of disappointment.
The little villa at Bayswater was looking its brightest on a resplendent midsummer afternoon, one year after Diana Paget's hurried hegira from Forêtdechêne.
Holt was satisfied to be liked best when Dale could not be had; and as this was the case in the Midsummer holidays, he was grateful to be allowed to spend them with the Proctors.
It was the time of midsummer When they had used to roam; But now, though tempting was the air, I found them all at home.
The midsummer stars were brilliant overhead; he looked up at them, pausing on the threshold.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "midsummer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: arctic; autumn; boreal; canicular; seasonal; spring; summer; summery; vernal; winter; wintry
