At length these denizens of the swamps disappeared in their turn; smaller trees became thinly scattered among less dense thickets-- a few isolated groups detached in the midst of endless plains over which ranged herds of startled deer.
Austria showed herself generous in the midst of her financial crisis.
Barbicane descended with his three fellow- travelers; and much astonished were they all to find themselves in the midst of such a cavalcade.
Barbicane remained calm in the midst of this enthusiastic clamor; perhaps he was desirous of addressing a few more words to his colleagues, for by his gestures he demanded silence, and his powerful alarum was worn out by its violent reports.
But by and by, when about all the pilots had arrived who were in town, Stephen suddenly appeared in the midst, and rushed for Yates as for a long-lost brother.
Think what it must have been to wake up in the midst of that voiceless hush, and, look out over that grim congregation of the dead!
We mean not to trace the progress of this passion, or recount how often Darnford and Maria were obliged to part in the midst of an interesting conversation.
She entering in the midst of the package, I gave her some new feathers, to silence her.
Fields; so that there was no lack of intellectual society in the midst of the beautiful and inspiring mountain scenery of the place.
Sir Percy Blakeney's house on the river has become a historic one: palatial in its dimensions, it stands in the midst of exquisitely laid-out gardens, with a picturesque terrace and frontage to the river.
And Marguerite could not speak to her brother about the secrets of her heart; she hardly understood them herself, she only knew that, in the midst of luxury, she felt lonely and unhappy.
In the midst of general silence a voice had just been heard.
Captain Nemo suddenly became silent in the midst of this enthusiasm, by which he was quite carried away.
He won every battle that he undertook, with the exception of one or two occasions when he was surprised in the midst of his women and children, and even then he managed to extricate himself in safety from a difficult position.
The whole people turned out as spectators of the struggle, and the battlefield was a plateau between the two camps, in the midst of picturesque Bad Lands.
It happened that there was a raid by the Crows, and when he awoke in the midst of the yelling and confusion, he sprang up and attempted to join in the fighting.
In the midst of a game, two boys became involved in a dispute which promised to be a serious one, as both drew knives.
Here, with all their precautions, they were caught unawares by General Custer, in the midst of their midday games and festivities, while many were out upon the daily hunt.
Esdr 2:43 And in the midst of them there was a young man of a high stature, taller than all the rest, and upon every one of their heads he set crowns, and was more exalted; which I marvelled at greatly.
Esdr 12:44 If thou shalt forsake us, how much better had it been for us, if we also had been burned in the midst of Sion?
The perpetual current of rivers supports our commerce, and runs our machinery; but the sun, alone in the midst of space, gives light to the whole world.
The sheep which we have raised follows us, but it follows in company with the flock in the midst of which it was born.
In the midst of trials, reports, and modifications, pauperism increases, and the workingman languishes and dies.
Wrapped in the midst of early morning, her history looms vague and gigantic.
One or two of them, surely, could easily have been spared for an hour, to run up and see the show; and they would have been thoroughly at home here, in the midst of all the colour and the movement and the fun.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
In winter, the water flowed over the grass; in summer, as now, it trickled along a channel in the midst.
On the fine October evening on which we follow Stephen Smith to this place, a placid porter is sitting on a stool under a sycamore-tree in the midst, with a little cane in his hand.
He left off in the midst of a sentence, and proceeded to inquire warmly concerning her state of health.
Yes, a dazzling light in the midst of which I had been put down.
It may be that the exceptional surroundings in which we found ourselves, in the midst of an incredible silence, impressed us to an unusual extent.
There was one story that began: "A king sat in a little boat on one of those deep, still lakes that open like a bright eye in the midst of the Norwegian mountains .
You have seen a fine race horse suddenly break and lose his stride in the midst of the field, and pull up and try to gain it again, and go bravely on, his stride and form still there, but his spirit broken?
She yawned, and inthe midst of it caught her breath with a little cry of pain.
In the midst of the rush she managed, somehow, never to fail to grasp the humor of a situation.
In the midst of her horror some imp in Fanny's brain said that her hands would be red, and thick, with a name like that.
And suddenly Fanny would stop quite still in the midst of her tag game, struck with the beauty of the picture it called from the past.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the midst" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
