Witching hour

Usage examples of midnight.

Shortly after midnight Ambrose let himself inside with the aid of a lock pick.

If the demolition of Mordon has not commenced by midnight to-night I shall be compelled to break another ampoule tomorrow.

One can read a letter at midnight, and the moonlight makes no appreciable difference.

Not for naught had he gained access into darksome cults, had barkened to the grisly whispers of the votaries of Skelos under midnight trees, and read the forbidden iron-bound books of Vathelos the Blind.

The fire-alarm and midnight drum may beat, And all bestrewed ysmoking at your feet!

The pinnace is to remain at the cave at Cala Blau from the coming midnight until the following sunset, when, unless it receives orders, it is to rejoin the ship at the rendezvous I have marked here.

Yet thou canst more than mock: sometimes my tears At midnight break through bounden lids -- a sign Thou hast a heart: and oft thy little leaven Of dream-taught wisdom works me bettered years.

The day our branding was finished, the two returned near midnight, reported the San Miguel cattle accepted and due the next evening at Las Palomas.

The pork shoulder and beef brisket had been on the fire since midnight and at mid-morning they were ready to go in the warming box after several dips in sauce.

And brontosaur begot pteranodon and pteranodon begot tyrannosaur and tyrannosaur begot the great midnight kites-pterodactyls!

It was midnight, and we went on wasting our time in this desultory conversation, when the prudent and careful servant brought us an excellent supper.

Supper was brought in and we stayed at table till midnight, talking about trifles, but so pleasantly that the time passed away very quickly.

On the fifth night, it being the twenty-fourth of November, in the darkness of the third hour after midnight, the alarm was sounded and Corund summoned by a runner from the north with word that a sally was made from Eshgrar Ogo, and the lines bursten through in that quarter, and fighting going forward in the mirk.

Unless the Skyhook arrived before the expiry of the deadline, at midnight the following night, then it would all have been wasted, all have been for nothing.

But the job had been accomplished, and its countdown was proceeding smoothly, and an hour and a half still remained before the midnight expiry of the seven-day ultimatum.