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MIDST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The location of something surrounded by other things
Example:
in the midst of the crowd
Synonyms:
midst; thick
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("midst" is a kind of...):
inside; interior (the region that is inside of something)
Context examples:
Serious she was, very serious in her thankfulness, and in her resolutions; and yet there was no preventing a laugh, sometimes in the very midst of them.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
In the midst of poverty and want, Felix carried with pleasure to his sister the first little white flower that peeped out from beneath the snowy ground.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
In the midst of all this the lamp still cast a smoky glow, obscure and brown as umber.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
But I found myself in the midst of a strange people, who, seeing me come from the clouds, thought I was a great Wizard.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
And the more he knew, the more passionately he admired the universe, and life, and his own life in the midst of it all.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He plunged about in their very midst, tearing, rending, destroying, in constant and terrific motion which defied the arrows they discharged at him.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
In the midst of these was a small black and white ivory box with a sliding lid.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The honour was readily granted, and he then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
In the midst of the uproar there was an imperative rap upon the table, and my uncle rose to speak.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the midst of all this happiness, and when I looked upon myself to be fully settled for life, my master sent for me one morning a little earlier than his usual hour.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
