Use midst in a sentence
Sentences starting with midst
- Midst other news, heard you not that last night I led a dozen gentlemen to the rescue of the King? [11]
Sentences ending with midst
- It was furnished with delightful old-fashioned things that seemed to express, at every turn, the aristocratic and uncompromising personality of the owner who had lived so long in their midst. [9]
- And I wonder what they think of us, making this gorgeous progress through their midst. [8]
- Do you know what that false worship has been in our midst? [10]
- But better things were to come: as I was about to knock at the door it opened, and five gentlemen of the Council, all men of the first rank among the Elders of the city, appeared on the threshold, and Master Pernhart in their midst. [10]
- They had been shut up in a garrison so long on moldy food that they could not keep their delight to themselves when this fine fresh meat came springing into their midst. [5]
- Apparently his eminent literary contemporaries did not realize that a celebrated poet had passed from their midst. [5]
- I have seen it and been in its midst. [10]
- The injustices and inequalities existing in our own country, the false standards of worth, the materialism, the luxury and waste must be purged from our midst. [9]
- All at once he felt the latch of the hidden door under his finger; he saw a court-room, a judge and jury, and hundreds of excited faces, himself standing in the midst. [11]
- At a word from Doltaire we pushed forward towards the palace, the soldiers keeping me in their midst. [11]
Sentences containing midst two or more times
- We are getting used to driving right into the central court of the hotel, in the midst of a fragrant circle of vines and flowers, and in the midst also of parties of gentlemen sitting quietly reading the paper and smoking. [5]
- He said afterward that he was cut off in the midst of what he was saying--in the midst of an argument by which he could have proved that he could not let Joan pass--an argument which Joan could not have answered. [5]
More example sentences with the word midst in them
- Who knows what you will find up in the midst of all the muddle yonder? [10]
- He turned up yesterday morning on Dicky Farnham's yacht, in the midst of all that storm. [9]
- Again, in the years of my struggle for livelihood which followed, I dreamed of her; I pictured her often in the midst of the darkness of the Revolution. [9]
- H. Twichell, he wrote: "That good and unoffending lady, the Empress, is killed by a madman, and I am living in the midst of world-history again. [5]
- If a man would be conspicuous, let him come here and retire from the house in the midst of an act. [5]
- And now this world with all its vain show had plumped down in the midst of them. [4]
- The very first words uttered had plunged Abel Baragar and his son's wife into the midst of the difficulty which she had hoped might, after all, be avoided. [11]
- To have this woman in the midst of chaos would be enough! [9]
- A dispute ensues, with loud talk; in the midst of it enter the king. [5]
- Beside herself now with horror and dread, she implored him to turn away; but he did not heed her, and went on unmoved into the midst of the stream. [10]
- Barbara had often wished to see the Netherlands, which the Emperor Charles also remembered with special affection, but no one had ever thus transported her to the midst of these flourishing provinces and this blithesome people. [10]
- You see the white walls of that temple yonder in the midst of its sacred grove. [10]
- And it was while he was in the midst of an anecdote proving the existence of this quality in his friend that he felt a sudden clutch on his arm. [9]
- The first story, which is still standing, in the midst of a heap of ruins, is 260 feet high. [10]
- On one occasion, when he sat beside her, a young man, who shall be nameless, was suddenly heard to remark in the midst of an accidental lull: "I never go to church. [9]
- Even the gladiators were relaxing their ardour; and soon the arena was cleared altogether, for we were in the midst of a hurricane. [11]
- Too many that were placed there as luminaries have become conspicuous by their obscurity in the midst of that illustrious company. [6]
- When he gets well and plump, I know he will forgive me if I confess that I could not help smiling in the midst of my sympathy for him. [6]
- My Dear Hessie, we have been two days on Mont Blanc, in the midst of a terrible hurricane of snow, we have lost our way, and are in a hole scooped in the snow, at an altitude of 15,000 feet. [5]
- On the Enz we had been in the midst of society. [10]
- Charles left for Washington, summons from President, in the midst of it. [9]
- Yes, there it was, half covered by the ruins, but its head was erect in the midst of fire and disaster. [11]
- Tom said we was right in the midst of the Arabian Nights now. [5]
- A huge campfire was blazing brightly in the midst of the snow, lighting up the branches of trees heavy with hoarfrost. [2]
- In the midst was an open court, on to which opened the doors of the rooms of the priests and philosophers. [10]
- In the midst was a silver table-ornament, something similar to an altar, from which arose fragrant clouds of incense. [10]
- It has been vouchsafed to many even in the midst of life to be born again to a higher existence. [10]
- Cauchon raised his voice and began to speak in the midst of this noise, but he was so angry that he could hardly get his words out. [5]
- Down into the very midst of her writing came the bolts of death. [14]
- I did not value my life, as you know well, for it has been flung into the midst of dangers for Egypt's sake, how often! [11]
- They sat with us, but behind great posies of flowers, as it were in an isle of bliss; yet were they in our midst, and showed how glad it made them to have so many loving hearts about them. [10]
- A sudden call upon Mr. Bolton for a large sum of money, which must be forthcoming at once, had found him in the midst of a dozen ventures, from no one of which a dollar could be realized. [5]
- Its window looked upon a small plat of green, in the midst of which was a single grave marked by a plain marble slab. [6]
- She then walked up deliberately and steadily to the brink, stepped into the centre of the flame, sat down, and leaning back in the midst as if reposing upon a couch, was consumed without uttering a shriek or betraying one sign of agony. [5]
- That good and unoffending lady the Empress is killed by a mad-man, and I am living in the midst of world-history again. [5]
- We were almost under the monstrous wall of water thundering down from above, and speech was in vain in the midst of such a pitiless crash of sound. [5]
- The robins sat under the evergreens, and piped in a disconsolate mood, and at last the bluejays came and scolded in the midst of the snow-storm, as they always do scold in any weather. [4]
- It was a two-story log house situated on a small knoll in the midst of the vast basin or desert through which the sickly Carson winds its melancholy way. [5]
- In this cavern, tradition says, Saul, the king, sat at midnight, and stared and trembled, while the earth shook, the thunders crashed among the hills, and out of the midst of fire and smoke the spirit of the dead prophet rose up and confronted him. [5]
- We saw Emily torn from the midst of us when our hearts clung to her with intense attachment. [14]
- Suddenly some horsemen tore into the midst of the crowd, and a voice shouted: "Hold--or ye are dead men! [5]
- Lem's voice seemed to William Wetherell to have given way to a world-wide silence, in the midst of which he sought vainly for Cynthia and the stage driver. [9]
- You have come to this country-town without suspicion, and you are moving in the midst of perils. [6]
- They had undressed to the skin in the midst of the thickest woods and were performing Paradise and the Fall of Man, as they had probably just been taught in their religious lesson. [10]
- They were conducted to the platform by Buckstone--Tom Driscoll still following--and were delivered to the chairman in the midst of a prodigious explosion of welcome. [5]
- It is useless to talk about the Polar sufferings of Dr. Kane to a guest at a metropolitan hotel, in the midst of luxury, when the mosquito sings all night in his ear, and his mutton-chop is overdone at breakfast. [4]
- Caesar himself said to me once; 'In the midst of the turmoil of waking life, when I see Antinous a feeling comes over me as if a beautiful dream stood incorporate before my eyes. [10]
- There's only this to be said--we'll be fighting the French soon, and it's easy to die in the midst of a great fight. [11]
- Privately, and unknown to any one, I painted my great picture, "Heidelberg Castle Illuminated"--my first really important work in oils--and had it hung up in the midst of a wilderness of oil-pictures in the Art Exhibition, with no name attached to it. [5]
- So they rode till they came to a lake, the which was a fair water and broad, and in the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand. [5]
- It had led through the midst of the bare rocky landscape, and their eyes, accustomed to distant horizons and luxuriant green foliage, met narrow boundaries and a barren wilderness. [10]
- Not good February, though, because in the midst of the wild desolation the forget-me-not still bloomed, lovely as ever. [5]
- Such occurrences as those just mentioned, though most important to be remembered and guarded against, hardly attract our notice in the midst of the gloomy facts by which they are surrounded. [3]
- And yet, if this was his last journey, it seemed not an inappropriate ending for the old woodsman to lie down and give up the ghost in the midst of the untamed forest and the solemn silences he felt most at home in. [4]
- It was at this point, when fifty knives flashed in the air, with vengeful exclamations, that Jethro Fawe appeared in the midst of the crowd. [11]
- Where now was this pin-point of humanity, in the midst of an appalling spectacle of a grinding, remorseless nature? [9]
- The popularity of this immense show was very great, and we found ourselves, A---- and I, in the midst of a vast throng, made up of respectable and comfortable looking people. [6]
- These "sage-freighters," as they were called, hauled grain and flour and merchandise from Sterling, and Jane laughed suddenly in the midst of her humility at the thought that they were her property, as was one of the three stores for which they freighted goods. [13]
- Whole armies of these excellent beings can be spared from our midst and our polls; they will find a delicious climate and a green, kind-hearted people. [5]
- Their duties carry them into the midst of families, and particularly at times when the members of them are suffering from bodily illness. [6]
- He rode around them at the peril of falling with his horse over a precipice, and now found himself before a labyrinth of scaffolds and free-stone, in the midst of a wild, grey, treeless mountain valley. [10]
- Ephraim sat in their midst, and for once he was not telling war stories. [9]
- An atheist in their midst was like a scorpion in a flower-bed--no one could tell when and where he would sting. [11]
- The people received their Father William with joy, and the unwearied champion of liberty, in the midst of the exultation and rejoicing that surrounded him, labored for the future prosperity of the city. [10]
- In five minutes the whole chancel was burning, and the sleeping man waked in the midst of smoke and flame. [11]
- The Egyptian made the whole caravan turn down an alley that led into a street running parallel to the river, where a few fine houses still stood in the midst of their gardens. [10]
- Miss Virginia in the very midst of a sentence paused, and then stopped. [9]
- Thus he presented the singular spectacle of a President who, in the midst of a great civil war, with unprecedented duties weighing upon him, was constantly in person debating the great features of his policy with the people. [7]
- We lunched in the shade of the pyramid, and in the midst of this encroaching and unwelcome company, and then Dan and Jack and I started away for a walk. [5]
- If I harry the rich in the midst of the Dakoon's men, it is gaining my own over naked swords. [11]
- I supposed that the President would be in the midst of a crowd, and that I could look at him in peace and security from a distance, as another stray cat might look at another king. [5]
- The tents of the populace were only divided from the pavilion of the Pharaoh by the hastily-constructed garden in the midst of which it stood, and the hedge which enclosed it. [10]
- It was in the midst of this work that he adopted the name which he was to make famous throughout the world. [5]
- It was in the midst of this wild mob that Noel and I had our first glimpse of La Hire. [5]
- I was in the midst of this tale when I happened to look some rods away to the other edge of the clearing, and there was a bear! [4]
- And so, in the midst of this quiet inland town, where a mere accident had placed Mr. Bernard Langdon, there was a concentration of explosive materials which might at any time change its Arcadian and academic repose into a scene of dangerous commotion. [6]
- She was in the midst of this eager search when she awoke. [6]
- But even in the midst of these surges of passion I was conscious of the birth of a new force I did not understand, and which I resented, that had arisen to give battle to my passions and desires. [9]
- It was in the midst of these social successes, and just after his admission to the bar, that Irving gave the first decided evidence of the choice of a career. [4]
- And there, in the midst of them, lay a note addressed with my name in a big, unformed hand. [9]
- When Burns, in the midst of the sulphurous orthodoxy of Scotland, dared to say, "The fear o' hell 's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order," he was only appealing to the common sense and common humanity of his fellow-countrymen. [6]
- Nay, even in the midst of the silent dwelling of the speechless Sisters, right merry laughter might be heard during the hours of rest, and in spite of the thick walls of the class-room it reached the nuns' ears. [10]
- It was in the midst of the fierce contest here at the Bruchium. [10]
- Something occurred in the midst of the dancing which gave a new turn to affairs. [11]
- I stood in the midst of the crowd. [10]
- Hadrian stood in the midst of the crowd, and at the instant when Verus appeared on the scene had wrenched the torch out of the hand of the infuriated tailor. [10]
- He rose in the midst of the Colonel's talk and excused himself on the plea of a previous engagement. [5]
- It stood in the midst of spacious grounds, with its due complement of outbuildings, and the grounds were enclosed by a wall--a wall not for defense, but for privacy. [5]
- He was in the midst of some impromptu remarks when he recognized a certain brisk step behind him, and Isaac D. Worthington himself entered the sanctum! [9]
- Medius is in the midst of it all. [10]
- And when in the midst of his career, with such large ideas of public service and philanthropy, he was stricken down, he left to me, in the confidence of his love, all that fortune which is some day to be yours. [4]
- But even in the midst of her newly found happiness her cheeks tingled with maidenly modesty at her own boldness. [10]
- Ditmar stopped in the midst of dictating a peculiarly difficult letter, and looked up sharply. [9]
- He was in the midst of campaign activities, he said, writing a life of Hayes, and gaily added: "You know I wrote the life of Lincoln, which elected him. [5]
- It stands in the midst of broad lands, and the ground in front of it slopes down to Coniston Water, artificially widened here by a stone dam into a little lake. [9]
- We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read. [7]
- It sits in the midst of a vast dead-level, and one is obliged to imagine that land may be had for the asking, and no taxes to pay, so lavishly do they use it. [5]
- Thee is in the midst of a thousand immaterial things, though they have importance for the moment. [11]
- We were in the midst of a serious talk, wherein I urged him upon matters which shall presently be set forth, when there came a noise outside. [11]
- Biddy stopped in the midst of a pirouette. [9]
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