I saw the ring-stone wrought at Avebury To frame the face of the midwinter sun, Good luck that hour they thought from him forth smiled At midwinter the Sun did rise--the Child.
We were all of a sudden transferred from the summer that reigned in Tankse to midwinter on the heights, and received a foretaste of the cold of the neighbouring Tibet.
He was also a good boaster, and declared that once in midwinter he had carried a letter in ten days from Yarkand to Leh, with all his provisions on his back--a journey that an ordinary mortal takes a month to accomplish.
The brief midwinter day was still bright when the Prince's sleigh set its owner down in the Academy Quarter, a door or two away from the tall house in which Joseph still retained his rooms.
A similar conflict may be seen in the mean diurnal inequality for the year at the Cape of Good Hope, but there the tropical type on the whole predominates, and it prevails more at midwinter than at midsummer.
At Parc St Maur the disturbance data from all three elements give distinct maxima near the equinoxes; a minimum at midwinter is clearly shown, and also one at midsummer, at least in D and H.
A decline in disturbance at midwinter is visible at all the stations, but at Batavia the equinoctial values for D and V are inferior to those at midsummer.
About midwinter the governor of Canada sent another large war-party against the New England border.
The General Court offered £40 for every Indian scalp, and one Captain Tyng, in consequence, surprised an Indian village in midwinter and brought back five of these disgusting trophies.
For a man worth half a million to cut down the wages of poor, hard-working folks in midwinter is cruelty.
It is a pretty serious thing to get out of work inmidwinter for a good many of us, and as long as the union isn't in control, other men can come in.
I meet him again on the edge of a bleak, midwinter night.
Yet within a few months of this successful campaign Alfred was attacked at midwinter by the main Danish army under King Guthrum.
The northern portion of the continent extends into the little known polar region of prevailingly low barometrical pressure, where midsummer and midwinter calms normally prevail.
The midwinter fair at Park River is sponsored by the Walsh County Agricultural College, and consists of exhibits from farmers throughout the Red River Valley.
On midwinter night when our table was gay and festive Gran noticed an unopened pint bottle of champagne towards the end of the feast, when "bubbley" was being superseded by port and liqueurs.
It must be borne in mind that this was the first Antarctic midwinter journey, and that the three men must of necessity face abnormally low temperature's and unheard of hardships whilst making the sledge journey over the icy Barrier.
Midwinter Day arrived on June 22, and here one must pay an affectionate and grateful tribute to Bowers, Wilson, Cherry-Garrard, and Clissold the cook.
Soon after Midwinter Day a heavy snowstorm blocked the igloo entrance completely; in consequence the air became so bad that the primus stove went out and the lights would not burn.
Campbell says that Midwinter Day gave them seasonable weather, pitch dark, with wind and a smothering drift outside.
In their corner were store lists, books, and mystery bags which contained material for the "South Polar Times," toys and frivolous presents to liven us up at the midwinter and other festivities.
He had a grim thought that midwinter flowers made dining as expensive as dying.
In 1878, when they first came to England, the two Bannermans and, I think, Midwinterwere classed as professionals, the rest as amateurs.
Both the Bannermans, as noted above, were avowedly professionals, and Midwinter also, if I remember rightly, and perhaps one or two others.
For other references to the wool dealer William Midwinter see ibid.
It is true that Midwinter was apt to be restive when his bills remained for too long unpaid, but he may be forgiven for that.
On another occasion he writes: 'By your letter you avise me for to buy wool in Cotswold, for which I shall have of John Cely his gathering 30 sack, and of Will Midwinter of Northleach 40 sack.
The Celys bought chiefly from two Northleach wool dealers, William Midwinter and John Busshe.
By a fortunate escape and a midwintermarch of nearly four hundred miles, they reached our lines in safety.
In the latter part of 1858 several enterprising citizens of St. Paul took a small steamer in midwinter from the upper waters of the Mississippi to the head of navigation, on the Red River of the North.
Had he pressed forward beyond Grenada, he would have been caught in midwinter in a sea of mud, where the safety of his army might have been endangered.
Wishing to take part in the drama about to be enacted, I essayed a midwinter journey across the plains, and, early in February, stood in the editorial room of The Herald.
Not till midwinter was the count at last handed a letter addressed in his son's handwriting.
One day in midwinter when sitting in the schoolroom attending to her nephew's lessons, she was informed that Rostov had called.
It wasmidwinter and during the siege we had rain and snow, thawing and freezing alternately.
The Enchanted Swing was one of the novel features of the Midwinter Fair in San Francisco, and of weird interest was the Night and Morning in Nashville.
The weather continued sunny and bracing and although it was nearing the holiday season the midwinter blizzards had not arrived.
Neglected books while training for the big game, then broke down cramming for midwinter exams.
I would go to them, but the vacation at midwinter will be too short.
Miss Gordon also arose and said, not unkindly: "Give Doctor Winslow's protege no more thought until the midwinterterm begins.
A great midwinter thaw awakens him, fooled out of a part of his nap by the siren song of the south wind, and he wanders forth in quest of something.
Now that they knew what they were going to do during the midwinter holidays, the Rover boys and their chums were eager to have the school session come to an end.
Two days passed, and the young cadets were so busy getting ready for the examinations previous to the midwinter holidays that they had no time to pay attention to anything else.
Towards midwinter no flour was to be had in Montreal; and both soldiers and people were required to accept a reduced ration, partly of horse-flesh.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "midwinter" 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
