I ended up missing it last week because I got caught up in something else and forgot to change the station mid-hour. ❋ Unknown (2008)
If a Familiar be sent forth by the mid-hour of the night, it may rove the farther. ❋ Norton, Andre (1965)
At the mid-hour of night, when the storms really blew, I used to lie aghast in my bed, hearing the rain claw the window and the wind slap the walls, and imagining the family, the house, and all the furniture, being sucked down the eternal drain. ❋ Lee, Laurie (1959)
Held by the silence of those waiting figures, in that icy mid-hour of the night, it came to me then, for the first time in my life, that it was possible I might die. ❋ Lee, Laurie (1959)
And now was the mid-hour of the day passed, when he heard no little noise; whereby he understood that the heathens were violating the Sabbath with their profane labors (the which was right contrary to his custom and command); and that they were then employed in a certain work which is called rayth; that is, a wall. ❋ Various (N/A)
When Edgar Allen Poe read that lyric of Moores that begins At the mid-hour of night, he perceived a distinctive metrical achievement. ❋ Unknown (1922)
We read that at York the players were to be ready "at the mid-hour betwixt the IVth and Vth of the clock in the morning." ❋ Anonymous (1902)
Truly a prime of sorrow, the dark mid-hour of the storm, dark with the grief gone by and the blackness of the on-coming grief. ❋ Unknown (1900)
When at length she closed her eyes, her slumber was fitful and broken by dreams, and in the mid-hour of the darkness she wakened with a start, as if some sound had aroused her. ❋ Unknown (1896)
The fact that they were speaking thus in so public a place, and at the mid-hour of the working day, was of itself enough to attract the attention of any white dweller of that region. ❋ Emerson Hough (1890)
Passes to bliss on the mid-hour of night, 'we shall have' gained our entrance 'among the' virgins wise and pure. ' ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
His feastful friends, passes to bliss, at the mid-hour of night, 'we shall gain our entrance. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
All at the mid-hour of the night, while good Rodrigo slept, ❋ Henry Morley (1858)
After that, the regular "dip-dip," at length dying away, as the boat receded, leaving the abandoned vessel silent as a graveyard in the mid-hour of night. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
It is the mid-hour of the day, and there has been a long interregnum of silence; none having said much on any subject, though there is a tacit intelligence, that the thoughts of all are on the same. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
It is now the mid-hour of night, a little later, and the party to be surprised will be in their beds. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
* Ztim. lire the mid-hour of night, from tent to tent, ❋ Unknown (1776)
"Near the mid-hour of the night the rush of a horse's feet was heard, and the sound of a rider leaping from its back, and a heavy knock came to the door, accompanied by a voice saying, 'The cummer drink's hot, and the knave bairn is expected at Laird Laurie's to-night; sae mount, goodwife, and come.' ❋ Various (1885)
