Midsummer

Examples

• Away beyond the dawn of history, 3000 or 4000 years ago, one thinks of the Wiltshire uplands in the twilight of a midsummer day's morning. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To the contentment of all he passed third in algebra, and got a French prize-book at the public Midsummer examination. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Gravel grated beneath their feet, and about them was the transparent dimness of a midsummer night. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• On Midsummer-eve, Adele, weary with gathering wild strawberries in Hay Lane half the day, had gone to bed with the sun. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The next morning, when Archer got out of the Fall River train, he emerged upon a steaming midsummer Boston. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Colonel and Mrs. Campbell are to be in town again by midsummer, said Jane. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The day succeeding this remarkable Midsummer night, proved no common day. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Four months had passed since the midsummer day that he and Madame Olenska had spent together; and since then he had not seen her. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• So the year rolled round, and at midsummer there came to Meg a new experience, the deepest and tenderest of a woman's life. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• His regular wind-up of the business was (as I have said) that he went to Mr. Kenge's about midsummer to try how he liked it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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