How To Use In the midst In A Sentence

It was not a great botanic garden, but it was a lung in the midst of the crowded brick and stone of human habitation. THY BROTHER DEATH
And while they were in the midst of their banqueting, the door was suddenly burst open, and the Dagda stood there, with his men.
The immaculately tended gardens are an oasis in the midst of Cairo's urban sprawl.
In the midst of a losing streak, a contingent of backup players complained about playing time.
A dashing swashbuckler of love, loss, and revenge in the midst of a plot to hide a conspiracy involving Napoleon's return to power.

Bena and her husband, a condescending, philandering doctor named Ted, arrive in Pueblo, Colo., in the midst of a drought, as well as the Depression. As The Pages Turn
Today, spruced-up Times Square is in the midst of a surprising, almost surreal transformation into a family-oriented entertainment center.
In the midst of farmland just to the west of York is a huge open tip.
They grew wealthy overnight and had a beautiful little opera house built in the midst of their shacks on the steep slope.
In the midst of a sermon, he suffered an apoplectic attack and remained unconscious for the rest of his life.
The lamp, standing alone in the midst of confusion, suffered a partial eclipse; and my favourite Dublin meerschaum successfully resisted the dilapidating effect of a fall of several feet. Canada for Gentlemen
His jaw was underhung, and when he laughed, two white buck-teeth protruded themselves and glistened savagely in the midst of the grin. Vanity Fair
The immaculately tended gardens are an oasis in the midst of Cairo's urban sprawl.
The other day in the midst of Port-au-Prince, the great degraded capital city that is my home, I saw a car, an old battered car, a jalopy, falter and sputter and come to a slow halt.
Discredited, Wovoka survived to die in the midst of the Great Depression.
They are four points behind table-toppers Viktoria Plzen and are currently in the midst of a winter break. The league schedule resumes on February 28 when they will face Banik Ostrava.
The almost rural surroundings change before you know it and you are soon in the midst of a much older town on a road gone narrow as you pass through Ulsoor with its temples, shops that sell puja essentials, books, clothes and Primus stoves.
The eggs of the leipoa, or native pheasant, are found in singular – looking mounds of sand, thrown up by the bird in the midst of the scrubs, and often measuring several yards in circumference. An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre
His technical skill guarantees admirable clarity in the midst of complex counterpoints, and there is a delightful sense of well-being about the performances.
Fortunately, Tosatti's infallible ear could detect an ‘out-of-tune’ microtone in the midst of any situation.
They are actually callous and indifferent to the drama of life and death in the midst of which they find themselves. WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativity and Exploration
‘In the midst of all this,’ he writes of the era of Generation X and grunge rock, ‘satire alone could be safely, unequivocally embraced, because it acknowledged the sanctity of nothing at all.’
SENATE GOP WHIP CONTEST COOLING OFF - Running tonight in Roll Call form David Drucker: "The contest for Senate Republican Whip has chilled following a backlash of rank-and-file GOP Senators, who are upset that a very public intraparty power struggle might sew discord and alienate voters in the midst of a national fiscal crisis. HUFFPOST HILL - Senate Punk-Off Continues to Escalate
It looked like a pat of butter caught in the midst of an ocean, with puffy marshmallows snuggling up.
As is often the case when one finds himself in the midst of a Postum discussion, the talk eventually turned to molasses, one of Postum's primary and no-longer-secret ingredients (the others being bran, wheat, and corn dextrin). Dave Hill: On Killer Molasses
It is often little use trying to explain to someone the theology of suffering when they are in the midst of it!
Who of that fierce company brought the trooper to his end we never knew, but when M'Iver and I got down to the level he was dead as knives could make him, and his horse, more mad than ever, was disappearing over a mossy moor with a sky-blue lochan in the midst of it. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
Close by the stir of the great city, with all its fret and chafe and storm of life, in the desolate garden of that sombre house, and under the withering eyes of relentless Crime, revived the Arcady of old, -- the scene vocal to the reeds of idyllist and shepherd; and in the midst of the iron Tragedy, harmlessly and unconsciously arose the strain of the Pastoral Music. Lucretia — Complete
In writing this review and consequently refreshing of my memory of all the episodes in this year, I was surprised to find so many clunkers in the midst.
And in the midst of this discussion, making a sudden and awestricken silence, appeared The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll
The reins were secured by chain-work, and the front-stall of the bridle was a steel plate, with apertures for the eyes and nostrils, having in the midst a short, sharp pike, projecting from the forehead of the horse like the horn of the fabulous unicorn. The Talisman
While we were required to take up these presents, I chanced to cast an eye upon the table, where there lay a fresh service of cheese-cakes and tarts, and in the midst of them a lusty rundlet, stuck round with all sorts of apples and grapes, as they commonly draw that figure. The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter
He had to create order and purpose in the midst of a terrible chaos.
In the midst of that, two American researchers used DNA analysis of whales to argue that North Atlantic whales have been drastically undercounted historically.
The best time to nudge children toward functional writing is when they are in the midst of doing purposeful work.
So by rights we should be in the midst of spring, with lambs leaping, the smell of dew hanging in the air and the sight of rowers happily plodding home from the Cherwell.
Park rangers try their best to protect them, but have been ambushed and attacked as they carry out their duties in the midst of internal conflict. Times, Sunday Times
Our predecessors of a century ago or in the midst of the Second World War would be astounded at how acquiescent our policy-makers are about this prospect.
In the midst of crowded environment, his mind is collected and undistracted.
We find ourselves in the midst of a civil war ruthlessly prosecuted by protagonists whose bloodlust knows no bounds.
As we speak we are still in the midst of a kind of folktale maelstrom, so you’ll forgive me if my initial sideways glance at “Letters from Rapunzel,” appeared to produce just more of the same. Review of the Day: Letters from Rapunzel
In the midst of a long round of hellos and goodbyes, the European Commissioner responsible for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries has been in fighting form over all the issues that matter to him.
The hunters camped in the midst of the thick forest.
In the midst of the church stood 12. waxe tapers of two yards long, and a fathom about in bignesse, and there stands a kettle full of waxe with about 100. weight, wherein there is alwayes the wicke of a candle burning, as it were a lampe which goeth not out day nor night. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03
I’m trying to stay very optimistic and excited about the whole thing, but deep down I know that I’m going down in a blaze of gunfire, in a handbasket, that is on fire, and filled with electric eels, in the midst of a meteor shower, surrounded by my mother’s nagging voice, only to end it all by being impaled on a wrought iron fence. Whitehelmet Diary Entry
They were married at a small church Bradford, in the midst of the Depression - on January 2, 1933.
In Washington, a veteran of the demonstrations was in the midst of a fast that began on Tuesday.
I'm afraid I'm too busy - I'm in the midst of writing up a report.
The trio before me represents three of the four co-founders of the theatre group, an ensemble in the midst of preparing for their second production.
Ludlow's domal inscription, 'Omne solum forti patria,' and sat down free in a country which had been one of slavery for centuries, "he adds," But there is _no_ freedom, even for _masters_, in the midst of slaves. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
So in the midst of her winter season — which still found her participating in cyclo-cross races — she enrolled in a "Foundations of French Cooking" class in Boulder, Colo. Cyclist-approved Fourth of July recipes
And in the midst, in the head of the centre light, shone out brighter than all, with an inherent radiance of its own, the cognisance of the Blandamers, the sea-green and silver of the nebuly coat. The Nebuly Coat
In the midst of the morning rush-hour his laughter drifted after her, curling round her senses and inflaming her still further.
On another occasion, at the same theatre, the prima donna was taken suddenly ill in the midst of a terzetto, in which Tamburini had the bass, and, while supporting her on the stage, this accomplished musician actually took the soprano in his falsetto, and performed the part of the indisposed lady in a manner which drew down universal applause. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
As an Arab American, I can empathize with Shirley Sherrod, In the midst of this crisis, I wrote a number of short pieces on a few websites charging that she had been "lynched" and was a victim of a hysterical mob spurred on by lies and cowards in authority who, out of fear or political calculation, had sacrificed her to a mob refusing her right to a fair hearing. James Zogby: I Understand Shirley Sherrod
How refreshing it is that in the midst of a throwaway society there remain products designed and constructed to function as advertised, season after season.
In the midst of discussing their newly made plans in May 2001, in the back of a New Delhi cab, Deon spotted a street sign with the word, MOR (meaning peacock in Hindi).
We were sitting in the midst of an elegant and well-dressed audience.
God hath placed Him in the midst of His throne as a Lamb, as it had been slain, and it is thus that the hosts of heaven adore Him.
By dawn, when we can see a little, we realise that we are in the midst of thick forests.
In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer... Leo Tolstoy
But in the midst of this relentless repression, there were rare, precious gems of resistance gleaming out from the melancholy.
The house was large and old, the furniture not much less ancient, the situation dreary, the roads everywhere bad, the soil a stiff clay, wet and dirty, except in the midst of summer, the country round it disagreeable, and in short, destitute of every thing that could afford any satisfaction to Mrs A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue
Llewellyn created another Saunderson legend in the midst of that bloody battle.
In the midst of life we are in death.
He succeeds in becoming John Doe, even in the midst of such spectacularly false and manipulated media proceedings.
The sense of calm and silence, the great waste of sea, the monotonous 'plash' of the paddle-wheels, the sort of solitude in the midst of such a crowd, the gradually lengthening distance behind, with the lessening, as gradual, in front, and the always novel feeling of approach to a new country -- these elements impart a sort of dreamy, poetical feeling to the scene. A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg
Why not in Aeolia in old time likewise burning for certaine daies in the midst of the sea? A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
Caractacus" cartoon, were to be seen in this new effort, where, as has been said, the English king stands like a Raphaelesque archangel in the midst of the design. Watts (1817-1904)
Yet, even in the midst of all this, the same dark thoughts had presented themselves; the perishableness of myself and all around me every instant recurred to my mind. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827
Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. Isaiah 16.
In the midst of all this I let go of one handful of weed to shake my fist at him.
Post-moral tradition-hating libertines might do well to pause in the midst of their celebrations to consider this.
No more than in Herod, who “heard the word gladly;” or in the Jews, when the preaching of Ezekiel was “pleasant” or desirable to them; or in those described Isa.lviii. 2, who “sought God daily, and delighted to know his ways,” in the midst of their abominable practices. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
The sounds of battle surrounded me, making me feel as if I were in the midst of a war-torn city.
We were just informed that easy-home BJS is in the midst of converting from a representative office to a 'company' entity.
Again, for me, the '60s architectural movement, which was in the midst of my school days, could have been the most stimulating in my life.
I'm afraid I'm too busy - I'm in the midst of writing up a report.
Haiti is in the midst of a political crisis caused by inconclusive elections held at the end of November. Times, Sunday Times
To a man of the world looking on, who has seen the men and morals of many cities, it was curious, almost pathetic, to watch that poor little innocent creature fresh and smiling, attired in bright colours and a thousand gewgaws, simpering in the midst of these darkling people — practising her little arts and coquetries, with such a court round about her. The Newcomes
In the midst of this societal jumble is Albert Fish, serial killer and cannibal. GreenCine Daily: Interview. John Borowski.
In the midst of battle he finds a 'coldblooded' anger that leaves his mind clear. Times, Sunday Times
If so, have they not been struck with a philological mania, on seeing his picture of the Kutchin-Kutcha Indians dancing; in which the principal performer is actually figuring in the midst of the wild circle in the way described. Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
And in the midst of the unending gloom in the economy, Britons increasingly are turning back to childhood pleasures. Times, Sunday Times
Think, too, about how a peaceful gesture in the midst of a time of conflict can help defuse tension and soften someone's heart.
In the midst were the deep impressions of the splay-hoofed game, and all about, everywhere, were the lighter footmarks of the wolves. THE LAW OF LIFE
Park rangers try their best to protect them, but have been ambushed and attacked as they carry out their duties in the midst of internal conflict. Times, Sunday Times
On the west the rough highlands of Marin shut off the ocean; in the midst, in long, straggling, gleaming arms, the bay died out among the grass; there were few trees and few enclosures; the sun shone wide over open uplands, the displumed hills stood clear against the sky. The Silverado Squatters
Yet in the midst of all this I also have several shelf-fuls of gifts which he will not use.
“And His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the East: and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the East and toward the West, and there shall be a very great valley; and half the mountain shall remove toward the North, and half of it toward the South.” — The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882
Such critical perspectives suggest we are in the midst of a thoroughgoing overhaul of traditional ideas about artistic value and meaning.
Every forty days the Lady Jamilah cometh hither in a bark and landeth in the midst of her women, under a canopy of satin, whose skirts ten damsels hold up with hooks of gold, whilst she entereth, and I see nothing of her. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
On a shelf or cup of the declivity was a little clump of vegetation, and in the midst of it welled up a thin stream of water. The Golden Fleece
And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
I watched from between two great boulders, I beheld a Turkish convoy of about six hundred infantry, led by a bimbashi on a gray horse, with a string of pack-mules trailing out behind them, and five loaded donkeys led by soldiers in the midst. Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders
The best time to nudge children toward functional writing is when they are in the midst of doing purposeful work.
India's business capital is in the midst of a massive makeover.
To me it is unintelligible that the full tide of glibbest chatter can be stopped at a moment in the midst of profuse good living, and the Given thanked becomingly in words of heartfelt praise. Doctor Thorne
If you were to drive due east of the warm, coastal snowbird capital of Fort Myers, Florida, you'd soon find yourself in the midst of a sprawling grid of unadorned streets and quarter-acre lots collectively known as Lehigh Acres. Raymond Schillinger: Lehigh Acres, Florida: A Parable of the American Dream Gone Bust
For the town is in the midst of a marsh formed by the river Achelous, which, rising in Mount Pindus and passing first through the territory of the Dolopians, Agraeans, and Amphilochians, and then through the Acarnanian plain, at some distance from its mouth flows by the city of Stratus and finds an exit into the sea near Oeniadae: an expedition in winter is thus rendered impossible by the water. The History of the Peloponnesian War
And in the midst of all this feverish activity -- the fast-drying acrylics force him to work quickly -- a picture emerges.
In the winter of 1865 he fell into a highly nervous condition, in the midst of which he was assailed by a malarious fever which brought him within sight of the grave. Henrik Ibsen
This is the inevitable by-product of implementing a contractionary fiscal policy in the midst of a serious recession.
The ventripotent vermin were in the midst of their meal, when "our fat friend" awoke.
In the midst of all this I let go of one handful of weed to shake my fist at him.
The rush to flee from the men in black had overridden concerns about direction, and his GPS had been corrupted in the midst of his attack on the drones. NaNoWriMo: Talos & Charlie « The Graveyard
If, on the other hand, a band of Christians should attempt to enslave a race of heathen men and to entail slavery upon them, and to keep them in heathenism in the midst of Christianity, the God of heaven would smile upon every effort which the injured might make to disenthral themselves. Walker's Appeal with a Brief Sketch of His Life
So in the midst of these huge orchestrations, you know, 120 people on stage, suddenly there are these little almost intermezzi, you know, intimate song-like experiences. A Composer On The Couch: Mahler Meets Freud
In the midst is a well where women in flowing drapery, with tall jars, draw water as if posing for Bible illustrations; and a camel market in which fifty or more of the brown, ungainly beasts have been relieved of their burdens and lain down for the night – doubled into uncomfortable heaps and bubbling and moaning with querulous discontent. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
In the midst of this appalling ruin of the monuments of man's power, nature asserted her ascendancy, and shone more beauteous from the contrast. III.9
A second visit to Venice took place in the midst of the Thirty Years' War, when travel was slow and hazardous.
For just a moment, in the midst of a film of frenetic pace and constant violence, everything halts.
The two switched roles in December while the team was in the midst of its worst stretch of the season.
Eleanor arrived in the midst of a blizzard.
Writing upon the subject in which he was interested, in the midst of his family, he would pause, pen in hand, to laugh at some jest or say a word apropos of the question under discussion, and return in an instant to his work. Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil wars,
During the many relief visits I paid that winter in tenement houses and miserable lodgings, I was constantly shadowed by a certain sense of shame that I should be comfortable in the midst of such distress. Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
Senator Higgins said the community was still obviously reeling in shock at how such a gruesome tragedy should happen in the midst of a tight knit community and nobody was aware of it.
He moved in 1936 to the home missions churches in the midst of the blockies of the Murray irrigation area.
We had three feet of snow, icicles everywhere on trees and buildings, and we skittered from fire to fire, knowing we were in the midst of something historic in literature.
The Reformation began, theologically speaking, with closed eyes and open ears, in the midst of a profound and thoroughgoing cultural and spiritual crisis.
In the midst of our waiting room muted conversation, suddenly I broke out in heightened laughter after I realized what she had said. Spanish speaking can be fun!
A leader who engages in indolence “ought to blush with shame to claim a part in them [victories] for his own renown when he had contributed nothing to the task but his voice and his thinking – not even that, seeing that in tasks such as these the counsel and commands which bring men their glory are exclusively those which are given on the spot in the midst of the action.” An Emperor Should Die On His Feet « So Many Books
In the midst of the delight of the moment, there lies concealed a foreboding of inescapable sorrow.
They must also be able to rally support and achieve results in the midst of almost constant organizational change.
I must iterate that I had this thought in the midst of my dreaming, and I take it as an evidence of the merging of my two personalities, as evidence of a point of contact between the two disassociated parts of me. CHAPTER II
The original sin, according to Fechner, of both our popular and our scientific thinking, is our inveterate habit of regarding the spiritual not as the rule but as an exception in the midst of nature. Boing Boing
In the midst of winter, nature provides us with warm colours of orange and reds to give the impression of warmth.
In the midst of this, our president is determined to cut taxes to revive a mature economy.
Griffith had abandoned his own horse and was in the midst of walking towards him, his expression one of careful curiosity tinged with concern, his tall black boots spotted with muck as long grass squelched under his feet.
As the week trudged on, I began to realize I was in the midst of the winter "blahs," an affliction that seems to grab hold of virtually every adult living in the Rustbelt during the winter, particularly February. Tonawanda News Homepage
I greatly esteem your message in the midst of our hard struggle.
A fayre quilte of crymson sattin, vj breadths, iij yardes 3 quarters naile deepe, all lozenged over with silver twiste, in the midst a cinquefoile within a garland of ragged staves, fringed rounde aboute with Kenilworth
Sabour was an eddy of life in the midst of a sea of lethargy.
The space enclosed by the walls was very large; and as in modern times many new buildings and ranges of buildings have been erected within, with streets and courts between them, the place has now the appearance of being a little town enclosed by walls, and surrounded by a ditch with bridges, and standing in the midst of a _large_ town. Rollo in London
In the midst of the final cadenza in the third movement of the work, Linnebach, who had up to that time delivered a beautiful and relaxed interpretation of the piece, had to stop suddenly to retune her instrument.
Shown above is the roadside daylily, hemerocallis fulva, in the midst of feather reed grass, calamagrostis ‘Karl Foerester’. June 2008 Bloom Day « Fairegarden
Henry Gamadge, a modest, endearing man, scholar, bibliophile, expert (he hated the word) discerner of forged manuscripts, found himself in the midst of murder in a Maine resort. Working Murder
The speaker interrupted himself in the midst of his speech.
The few warriors in the camp used their horses for breastworks, standing behind them when they were on their feet, and lying down behind them after they were shot down.11 In the midst of the struggle, the white soldiers found themselves under attack from fifteen or so dogs from the Indian camp, who tried valiantly to defend their Indian masters. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
Let us figure his mildness and equanimity in the midst of their impatience, and perhaps their scurrility.
PMSL is in the midst of a global expansion campaign, which has been aptly named, 'Closer to our Customers'," said Lawrence K. Heck, president and CEO of Philadelphia Mixing Solutions. PRWeb - Daily News Feed
In the midst of the lush, steaming jungle of Bali, Green School has two dozen buildings made of giant bamboo poles.
I'm afraid I'm too busy - I'm in the midst of writing up a report.
Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
There is always a first brave person who breaks step with the stam-peding masses fleeing in panic, who pauses to help another to his feet,creating his own eye in the storm, The stuff of heroes is made, forged in the midst of tragedy, in the blink of an eye.
In summer it stood in the midst of a waving garden of buttercups and whiteweed, a towering mass of verdant leafage, a shelter from the sun and a refuge from the storm; a cool, splendid, hospitable dome, under which the weary farmer might fling himself, and gaze upward as into the heights and depths of an emerald heaven. The Village Watch-Tower
Daft, because who gives a damn about sweating in the midst of passion?
(De 4: 41; Nu 35: 11); three were to be invested with the same privilege on the west of that river when Canaan should be conquered. in the midst of thy land -- in such a position that they would be conspicuous and accessible, and equidistant from the extremities of the land and from each other. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Now a historic house museum and a National Historic Landmark, the Mount is in the midst of a major restoration campaign that will include refurnishing the interior to reflect Wharton's decade of residence.
Such beauty was unexpected in the midst of the city.
The most stunning demonstration of its unearthly spell occurs late in Pequod's ill-fated voyage, when the ship is illuminated by an eerie outburst of corposants in the midst of a violent squall.
His self-command was perfect, and I had never thought I would witness such a thing as this: a prisoner, in the midst of his alien captors, was impeccably performing the highest duty of ambassadorship, which is to inspire respect for the country he represents. The 9th Directive
could he walk out in the midst of his piece?
They preach a message of hope in the midst of gang violence and extreme poverty. Christianity Today
We should pray for Christian believers there, as they witness to their trust and confidence in the Lord Jesus Christ in the midst of such a tragedy.
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
We would appear to be in the midst of a full-blown epidemic of graphomania. Archive 2007-02-01
The rippling note of the birds he distinguished so acutely seemed a part of this tree-less place, open freely to sun and air, such as rose and carnation loved, in the midst of the old disafforested chase. Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays
I grew up in the midst of a swirling world of linotype machines and printing presses, promotions, weekly deadlines, and an unending parade of local politicians and merchants.
Llewellyn created another Saunderson legend in the midst of that bloody battle.
Nor is this the first instance of chivalry in the midst of frenzy.
In the midst of life we are in death.
By just about every standard, from GDP growth to consumer confidence, the U.S. economy is in the midst of a torrid turnaround.
I thought it was very ballsy to put a dramatic moment between two characters in the midst of a third act that had seemingly spiraled out of control.
The Malek resignation over his Jew-hunting came in the midst of the furor over the Nazified ethnic outreach activities of the Republican Party. Chip Berlet: The Tea Party Republicans' Malek Problem
There is always a first brave person who breaks step with the stam-peding masses fleeing in panic, who pauses to help another to his feet,creating his own eye in the storm, The stuff of heroes is made, forged in the midst of tragedy, in the blink of an eye.
I saw in him, with a keen longing, those features characteristic of the Guermantes, of that race which had remained so individual in the midst of a world with which it was not confounded, in which it remained isolated in the glory of an ornithomorphic divinity, for it seemed to have been the issue, in the age of mythology, of the union of a goddess with a bird. The Guermantes Way
In the midst of 80s, discussing "the crisis of historiography" is a autocriticism and reorientation of Chinese contemporary historiography.
(with the blood-poisoning and delirium above-mentioned), sometimes after an overdose, but oftener seeming to occur spontaneously, or in the midst of physical or mental agony as great and irrelievable as men suffer in hopeful abandonment of the drug, and with a colliquative diarrhea, by which -- in a continual fiery, acrid discharge -- the system relieves itself during a final fortnight of the effete matters which have been accumulating for years. The Opium Habit
In the midst was a pennon displayed, which, though its bearings were not visible to Catharine, was, by a murmur around, acknowledged as that of the Black Douglas. The Fair Maid of Perth
By grots and caverns shagged with horrid shades, nay, in the midst of every tremendous assailant, "might pass on with unblenched majesty," uninjured and invulnerable. Lives of the Necromancers
There is always a first brave person who breaks step with the stam-peding masses fleeing in panic, who pauses to help another to his feet,creating his own eye in the storm, The stuff of heroes is made, forged in the midst of tragedy, in the blink of an eye.
The government is in the midst of a major crisis.
But even in the midst of these minefields, assiduous efforts have been made to fashion a safe passageway.
There is always a first brave person who breaks step with the stam-peding masses fleeing in panic, who pauses to help another to his feet,creating his own eye in the storm, The stuff of heroes is made, forged in the midst of tragedy, in the blink of an eye.
Once when we met in the midst of his frequent and hectic jaunts from airport to airport, city to city, project to project, I asked, ‘Karanth, what do you want out of this nomadic life?’
This five-minute masterwork is complete with a skilfully composed guitar lead, which appears in the midst of trance-like musical conditions.
And the children of Ephraim slew not the Chanaanite, who dwelt in Gazer: and the Chanaanite dwelt in the midst of Ephraim until this day, paying tribute.
In the midst of all this, and just a few blocks from Paulista Avenue, is this pretty pousada, or guest house, with its rustic design. The Guardian World News
America is a great philosopher that preaches and practices social pluralism and ethnic or racial equality – in the midst of cultural prejudice and social discrimination. Dr T.P.Chia
In the midst of life we are in death.
Jerry Brown talks now about a "re-founding" of California in the midst of chronic budget crisis and slow-mo recovery from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. William Bradley: Why on Earth Would Jerry Brown Want to Be Governor of California?
The hut is in the midst of the forest.
Called on to answer for the unseemly fact of its existence in the midst of these modern centuries, when the world boasts of human freedom and progression, it began by blushing for its hideous aspect and uttering feeble and deprecative apologies. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
The book-table had been hastily cleared for a cloth, not over white, and, in consequence, the sole remaining table, which acted as sideboard, displayed a relay of plates and knives and forks, in the midst of octavos and duodecimos, bound and unbound, piled up and thrown about in great variety of shapes.
Casting amateur actors in these shows is tantamount to using scabs in the midst of a strike, and acting in one of these shows is akin to crossing a picket line.
This five-minute masterwork is complete with a skilfully composed guitar lead, which appears in the midst of trance-like musical conditions.
In the midst of its first summer of operation, the pub has set up a sprawling outdoor eating area with ample seating and plenty of shade.
In the midst of the orchestra, the cembalo has been placed.
Remember what Nabokov said about his nymphets, that in the midst of others ‘she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious of her fantastic power.’
The place was of the most ricketty description, and situated in the midst of filthy and pestiferous nuisances. James Catnach, Ballad-monger, Part 1
In the midst of her burning words her voice broke.
In the midst of all these changes and uncertainties, the key role of leadership is to provide an anchor that can offer some degree of stability.
And even in the midst of ceremony, orderlies were already evacuating some severe casualties under the direction of a Frater Medicus.
A wooden sign with the words ‘Ashecroft Bed and Breakfast’ stood in the midst of a mix of white daisies and purple coneflowers.
They grew wealthy overnight and had a beautiful little opera house built in the midst of their shacks on the steep slope.
This form of destitution in the midst of plenty is not only morally obscene; it has social consequences which affect everyone.
Lord hast taken of me; in that unshaken firmness which is given me in my sufferings, in a perfect tranquillity in the midst of a furious tempest, which assaults me on every side; in an unspeakable joy, enlargedness and liberty which I enjoy in a most straight and rigorous captivity. The Autobiography of Madame Guyon
But in the midst of the progress in China, the donkey cart is a reminder that life has still not changed much for some people.
It is too late to stop the leak when the vessel is in the midst of river.

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