Midsummer Sentence Examples

It was midsummer, and the day was very hot.

Starting at the extreme north, we have a simple period with a well-marked maximum at midwinter, and no auroras during several months at midsummer.

If sunlight and twilight were the sole cause of the apparent annual variation, the frequency would have a simple period, with a maximum at midwinter and a minimum at midsummer.

In the spring of 1313 Edward Bruce invested Stirling castle, the key of Scotland; on midsummer day he accepted a pact for the surrender of the place if not relieved within a year.

The best time of the year for felling timber is in midsummer or midwinter, when the sap of the tree is at rest; it is not desirable to cut timber in the spring or autumn.

It was one of the old quarter-days, being equivalent to midsummer, the others being Martinmas, equivalent to Michaelmas, Candlemas (Christmas) and Whitsuntide (Easter).

These commoners might be the several owners, the inhabitants of a parish, freemen of a borough, tenants of a manor, &c. The opening of the fields by throwing down the fences took place on Lammas Day (12th of August) for corn-lands and on Old Midsummer Day (6th of July) for grass.

The ovary is not visible till nearly midsummer, and is not fully developed before lutumn.

The town, however, is in growing repute as a midsummer resort.

Such are Christmas Day, and, not unnaturally in this northern land, Midsummer (June 23 and 24).

That the sun on midsummer day rises nearly, but not quite, in line with the "avenue" and over the Friar's Heel, has long been advanced as the chief argument in support of the theory that Stonehenge was a temple for sun-worship. On the supposition that this stone was raised to mark exactly the line of sunrise on midsummer's day when the structure was erected, it would naturally follow, owing to well-known astronomical causes, that in the course of time the direction of this line would slowly undergo a change, and that, at any subsequent date since, the amount of deviation would be commensurate with the lapse of time, thus supplying chronological data to astronomers for determining the age of the building.

The solution of this problem has recently been attempted by Sir Norman Lockyer (Stonehenge and other British Stone Monuments), who calculates that on midsummer day, 1680 B.C., the sun would rise exactly over the Friar's Heel, and in a direct line with the axis of the temple and "avenue."

This is done about midsummer, when by the aid of torches and long poles many thousands of the young birds are slaughtered, while their parents in alarm and rage hover over the destroyers' heads, uttering harsh and deafening cries.

The siege of Delhi, which was the turning-point of the Mutiny, had lasted for more than three months, during which thirty minor actions had been fought in the almost intolerable heat of the Indian midsummer.

The third book was presented to the Society on the 6th of April 1687, and the whole work published about midsummer in that year.

At last, about midsummer 1713, was published the long and impatiently expected second edition of the Principia, and, on the 27th of July, Newton waited on the queen to present her with a copy of the new edition.

The climate is thoroughly Arctic. In the northern parts unbroken daylight in summer and darkness in winter last from two to three months each; and through the greater part of the country the sun does not rise at mid-winter or set at midsummer.

In May or April he lets his reindeer loose, to wander as they please; but immediately after midsummer, when the mosquitoes become troublesome, he goes to collect them.

In the spring they go down to the Norwegian coast and take part in the sea fisheries, returning to the lake about midsummer.

The year was broken by the spring feasts and moots, the great Althing meeting at midsummer, the marriage and arval gatherings after the summer, and the long yule feasts at midwinter.

The climate is inclement in winter and oppressively hot in midsummer.

Midsummer House on Midsummer Common is still going strong thanks to its highly enviable riverside location.

Today, for fear of its desecration, Stonehenge is usually shut off to public access on midsummer's eve.

Again it is late flowering, from midsummer to mid autumn.

The image is a leafy glade, a take on Shakespeare's Midsummer's Nights Dream.

Anyway, as it was permanently midsummer at Blandings those accounts would have been only hearsay.

This piece of midsummer madness is an all new production specially created for the LIFT Club.

We are having a re-union barbecue on the school fields to celebrate midsummer in a style.

The Cove at Stanton marks the minor southern midsummer setting as viewed from the northeast circle.

This is the place to spend midsummer, particularly Midsummer's Night when the whole region erupts in a frenzy of celebration.

An agreement is made that it will surrender if not relieved by midsummer 's day.

As the Swedish midsummer approaches there is no escaping from the darkness of society.

The night, tho we were so little past midsummer, was as dark as January.

The avenue of approach is aligned to the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset and the Station Stones mark the midwinter sunrise and midsummer sunset.

Its flower panicles start to appear in midsummer on stems up to 30 inches tall.

From one of the stones of the latter, the midsummer risings may have been marked.

As to the lesser sabbats, there is little evidence for the celebration of any of these by any pagan Celts except possibly midsummer.

To say nothing of the times we brought unseasonal sleet to midsummer Norway and the monsoon to Cheshire.

Each monument was a circular structure, aligned with the rising of the sun at the midsummer solstice.

To the south east is an entrance with double stones which faces down the valley toward the midsummer sunrise.

Flower Scar Hill has been implicated in a possible midsummer sunset sight-line, and is under threat from open cast coal mining.

Midsummer's Night Dream 5cl silver tequila 1.5cl pineapple juice 1.5cl fresh lime juice dash grenadine Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice.

Sue took Alan to see Woking Youth Theater in ' A Midsummer Night's Dream ', which both found tremendous.

That the 8-hour and 6-hour waves, though small near midsummer, represent more than mere accidental irregularities, seems a safe inference from the regularity apparent in the annual variation of their phase angles.

Zolss (41, 42) Has Published Dirunal Variation Data For Kremsmunster For More Than One Year, And Independently For Midsummer (May To August) And Midwinter (December To February).

At Karasjok, on the contrary, Simpson found A much larger at midwinternotwithstanding the presence of snow-than at midsummer.

The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies was a volume of serious verse, in which Hood showed himself a by no means despicable follower of Keats.

The broad deeply-sinuated leaves with blunt rounded lobes are of a peculiar yellowish colour when the buds unfold in May, but assume a more decided green towards midsummer, and eventually become rather dark in tint; they do not change to their brown autumnal hue until late in October, and on brushwood and saplings the withered foliage is often retained until the spring.

Its intensity seems due, however, in some degree at least, to the weathering of the brown fringes of the feathers which hide the more brilliant hue, and in the Atlantic islands examples are said to retain their gay tints all the year round, while throughout Europe there is scarcely a trace of them visible in autumn and winter; but, beginning to appear in spring, they reach their greatest brilliancy towards midsummer; they are never assumed by examples in confinement.

I had dug out the spring and made a well of clear gray water, where I could dip up a pailful without roiling it, and thither I went for this purpose almost every day in midsummer, when the pond was warmest.

One day in midsummer, when I was hoeing, a man who was carrying a load of pottery to market stopped his horse against my field and inquired concerning Wyman the younger.

He wore a greatcoat in midsummer, being affected with the trembling delirium, and his face was the color of carmine.

These trees were alive and apparently flourishing at midsummer, and many of them had grown a foot, though completely girdled; but after another winter such were without exception dead.

Midsummer 's Night Dream 5cl silver tequila 1.5cl pineapple juice 1.5cl fresh lime juice dash grenadine Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice.

Sue took Alan to see Woking Youth Theater in ' A Midsummer Night 's Dream ', which both found tremendous.

If you're hoping to go the flirtatious, charming fairy route, consider the elegant looks sported by Drew Barrymore in Ever After and by Michelle Pfeiffer in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Plants raised from seed early in the season make good growth by planting-out time, and by midsummer attain a height of 3 to 4 feet.

A dwarf sort, nanus, deserves a place, as it flowers at midsummer, when its commoner relative has done.

It grows in spreading masses, and from midsummer to September has loose graceful panicles of small white or pink flowers on slender stems.

In my own garden in some seasons they do not begin to move until after midsummer.

Sternbergia Macrantha - This is a really handsome species, the leaves blunt and slightly glaucous, about an inch broad when fully developed about midsummer; flowers bright yellow in autumn.

Flowers in midsummer and is quite hardy, and a charming addition to the open-air flower garden.

Its long slender stems and branches form a dense mass, and at midsummer are covered with brownish-red velvety flowers.

It flowers soon after midsummer, and just between praecox and the other forms of K. aloides.

Treated well, your 'kim's mophead' will bloom from midsummer all the way to mid-fall.

The shiny iridescent green beetles appear in midsummer and quickly infest plants of all types in the home landscape, leaving behind a wake of destruction.

No, not Titania, but rather Puck from A Midsummer Night's Dream, who is very impish.

Shakespeare's fairies, such as Ariel from The Tempest and all the Midsummer Night's Dream fairies are usually dressed in a simple, classic style, such as with ballet lyrical or woodland-themed costumes.

At the Midsummer Night's Talent Show, Sharpay and friends perform this Polynesian song, hoping to win the Star Dazzle Award, and for Sharpay, the affection of Troy.

In fact, Shakespeare is one such author because he named king and queen of the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Oberon and Titania.

The December and June curves for Kew are good examples of the ordinary nature of the difference between midwinter and midsummer.

The afternoon minimum at Kew gradually deepens as midsummer approaches.

Most stations in the northern hemisphere have a conspicuous maximum at midsummer with little thunder in winter.

The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies (1827) and a dramatic romance, Lamia, published later, belong to this time.

When the midsummer vacation arrived, he was preparing to set out with his family to Fox How in Westmoreland, where he had purchased some property and built a house.

Returning to Venice, Xavier was ordained priest on Midsummer Day 1537; but the outbreak of war between Venice and Turkey put an end to the Palestine expedition, and the companions dispersed for a twelvemonth's home mission work in the Italian cities.

The town is the chief centre of business in East Galloway, and it is also resorted to in midsummer for its beautiful scenery and excellent fishing.

The level of the lake is subject to seasonal fluctuations, reaching a maximum in midsummer and a minimum in February, as well as to alternating cycles of years of high and low water.

By midsummer the Albanian leaders and the greater part of the Turkish army in Europe had sworn fidelity to the constitution.

The Japanese regard it as a sacred mountain, and numbers of pilgrims make the ascent in midsummer.

After May it retires from the low-lying regions and gradually ascends to higher altitudes as midsummer approaches.

The outbreak of the World War in 1914 led to a German invasion which, from midsummer 1915 until Aug.

In London four ale-conners, whose duty it is to examine the measures used by beer and liquor sellers to guard against fraud, are still chosen annually by the liverymen in common hall assembled on Midsummer Day.

Among his published adaptations are an opera, The Fairies (from Midsummer Night's Dream) (1755); an opera The Tempest (1756); Catherine and Petruchio (1758); Florizel and Perdita (1762).

In 795 (February 1-August 1) Irish hermits had visited Iceland; on their return they reported the marvel of the perpetual day at midsummer in "Thule," where there was then "no darkness to hinder one from doing what one would."

The summers are short, but as there are sixteen hours of sunlight per day in midsummer, vegetation grows rapidly.

Dr Lewis Mott has pointed out that "Round Tables" exist in many parts of Great Britain, the name being often associated with circular trenches, or rings of stones, which were demonstrably employed in connexion with the agricultural festivals held at Pentecost, Midsummer and Michaelmas.

After two years as tutor to two youths of noble family, Schelling was called as extraordinary professor of philosophy to Jena in midsummer 1798.

He also edited the principal publications of the society, including its notable translation of Shakespeare's Dramatic Works, to which he contributed the Midsummer Night's Dream (1864), Hamlet and King John (1867).

In the same midsummer month all the eastern half of the United States is included between the isotherms of 66 and 82; the contrast between Lake Superior and the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, 1200 m.

Another fair at the beginning of Lent was added in 1468, and a second market on Thursday, and fairs at Midsummer and on the 21st of September were added in 1554.

The ibis is chiefly an inhabitant of the Nile basin from Dongola southward, as well as of Kordofan and Sennar; whence about midsummer it moves northwards to Egypt.

The best seasons for these operations are early spring and midsummer, that is, before the sap begins to flow, and after the first flush of growth has passed off.

In 1246 Reginald de Mohun, then lord of the manor, founded a Cistercian abbey at Newenham within the parish of Axminster, granting it a Saturday market and a fair on Midsummer day, and the next year made over to the monks from Beaulieu the manor and hundred of Axminster.

The midsummer fair established by Reginald de Mohun is still held.

At the first of these assemblies held at Nyborg, Midsummer Day 1314, the bishops and councillors solemnly promised that the commonalty should enjoy all the ancient rights and privileges conceded to them by Valdemar II., and the wise provision that the Danehof should meet annually considerably strengthened its authority.

The thirteen or fourteen years of DUrer's life between his return from Venice and his journey to the Netherlands (spring 1507 - midsummer 1520) can best be divided according to the classes of work with which, during successive divisions of the period, he was principally occupied.

On the 7th of June 1630 the Swedish fleet set sail, and two days after midsummer day, the whole army, 16,000 strong, was disembarked at Peenemiinde.

The pamphlets were printed at a secret press established by John Penry, a Welsh puritan, with the help of the printer Robert Waldegrave, about midsummer 1588, for the issue of puritan literature forbidden by the authorities.

The means of mitigating the damage done by this disease are (i) the selection of varieties found to resist its attacks; (2) the collection and destruction of diseased tubers so that none are left in the soil to become a menace to future crops; (3) care that no tubers showing traces of the disease are planted; (4) spraying with Bordeaux mixture at intervals from midsummer onwards.

Perhaps next week I shall have some more books, "The Tempest," "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and possibly some selections from Green's history of England.

The tenant of the air, it seemed related to the earth but by an egg hatched some time in the crevice of a crag;--or was its native nest made in the angle of a cloud, woven of the rainbow's trimmings and the sunset sky, and lined with some soft midsummer haze caught up from earth?

At midwinter the 24-hour term is the largest, but near midsummer it is small compared to the 12-hour term.