Festival associated with the summer solstice.
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Examples for "midsummer"
Examples for "midsummer"
1In the southern part, midsummer is in January and midwinter in July.
2In May he took Upsala; by midsummer he was besieging Stockholm itself.
3The arrangement was that the wedding was to take place in midsummer.
4In midsummer the bed is dry, and almost obliterated by the drift.
5It was the vacation time-themidsummer carnival weeks of the wilderness people.
1In Slavonic countries, also, the midsummer festival is celebrated with similar rites.
2But first I had to survive the Swedish midsummer festival.
3The morning light shone through a large window, over which hung a decoration left over from the Tanabata midsummer festival.
4It was home to a midsummer festival at the time of the Nazis and was once used as Berlin's only official concentration camp.
5The host bade make benches for the many valiant men, for the midsummer festival, (5) at which Siegfried should gain the name of knight.
1Henceforth, on the Feast of Saint John the Baptist, a tribute of .
2The feast of Saint John the Baptist, la fête nationale du Québec, came and went.
1But I should wish it to be before Saint John's Day.
2Yes, the other Saint John's Day, or its Eve, would do.
3I don't know why you did not come to us as shepherdess last Saint John's Day.
4On Saint John's day the celebrations began, and that day the king was seen with the infanta, his bride.
5But I have at last found a dwelling which will just suit us, and we mean to move on Saint John's Day.'
7"Let the business be finished before Saint John's day," said he to Tassis, when sending fifty thousand dollars for the use of the brothers Guise.
Translations for saint john's day