Where the Riviera is

Usage examples of midi.

Midi, and which has been exquisitely depicted by the late Alphonse Daudet in Tartarin and Bompard.

The Rhone Valley and the Midi seem to have been marked both by anticlericalism and militant Catholicism, and the revolutionary settlement was most widely accepted in the Seine Valley, the Paris region and in the poorest regions of central France, where the attraction of a better stipend for curates may well have been a decisive factor.

I have worked for some years in the North, have had occasional dealings with Bruxellois cops, magistrates, lawyers, and still know little of the place beyond the big axis between the North and Midi Stations.

Besides, the latter was a Languedocian, and often lived in Toulouse or elsewhere in the Midi.

Such incidents made me glad that I had been sent to the Det. They made me understand how professional they were and not just Walter Midis.

Suddenly, as if I were caught in a fast zoom-out between the idea and the act, a mere point of space which combs a wide territory, I am yet again launched, this time into the down-lurching telepherique, filled with a good fifty other passengers, all of us suspended by cables hundreds of feet above the sheer ice-glazed walls of the Aiguille Du Midi.

He knew that his pupil had gone, like anyone else, to Rue de Cherche Midi.

His cells have the highest concentration of midi chlorians I have ever seen in a life-form.

The Cafe Midi was in what was called the Tower District, an older commercial and residential area so named because of the Tower Theater, a vintage art deco movie theater whose neon lit tower stood at the center of what served as San Joaquin's Greenwich Village or North Beach.

Bernard and the Dent du Midi on the other, pretty Vevay in the valley, and Lausanne upon the hill beyond, a cloudless blue sky overhead, and the bluer lake below, dotted with the picturesque boats that look like white-winged gulls.