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Meanings of midsummer night in English

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la nit de sant joan

The night before Midsummer Day.

        la nit de sant joan
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        Examples for "Midsummer Eve"
        Examples for "Midsummer Eve"
        1
        In the early morning of Midsummer Eve, Hazel wandered up the hill-slopes.
        Gone to Earth
        2
        On Midsummer Eve three girls are required to make a dumb cake.
        Weather and Folk Lore of Peterborough and District
        3
        But the favourite time would seem to be Midsummer Eve or Midsummer Day.
        The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
        4
        The Midsummer Eve festival was like nothing Celaena had ever experienced.
        The Assassin’s Blade
        5
        There was mist on Midsummer Eve, mist when we drove into the dawn.
        I capture the castle
        1
        On St John's Eve, the bonfires burn all night.
        Wolf hall
        2
        In many parts of Ireland, bonfires were lit and, indeed, still are on St John's Eve.
        The Irish Times
        3
        The festival runs from June 21st to 29th and so includes St John's Eve on June 23rd, which has been celebrated in Cork for generations.
        The Irish Times
        1
        St John's night 1673 in danger of being run through with a sword by a young templer at M. Burges' chamber in the M. Temple.
        Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects
        1
        Britain will hold a referendum on European Union membership on June 23.
        Reuters
        2
        UKFI said it will not sell any more shares before June 23.
        Reuters
        3
        The award ceremony will air live from Los Angeles on June 23.
        Ebony
        4
        Margaret Adkins was killed on June 23, just over a week ago.
        Temperance Brennan 01 - Déjà Dead
        5
        To Miss Hannah More, June 23.-On her poem of Bishop Bonner's Ghost.
        The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
        Usage of midsummer night in English
        1
        It was a pompous spectacle, that midsummer night, upon those narrow seas.
        History of the United Netherlands, 1588d
        2
        She was wobbling badly as she pedalled homewards in the bright midsummer night.
        The preacher
        3
        Is it some troll's dish that you are both concocting for midsummer night?
        Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger
        4
        The midsummer night was full of dark and deadly menace.
        The Baronet's Bride; Or, A Woman's Vengeance
        5
        So off we started as the short midsummer night descended.
        Penelope's Experiences in Scotland / Being Extracts from the Com...
        6
        Not a Federal had been seen, and none appeared during the warm midsummer night.
        Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War
        7
        It was colder than it should ever have been in the mild midsummer night.
        The darkest road
        8
        It had all the phantasy of a midsummer night's dream.
        Purple Springs
        9
        How have I, through the whole of a midsummer night, struggled to fathom it!
        The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3
        10
        The scene was more like a midsummer night's dream.
        Ebony
        11
        It was a midsummer night, and the fairies were having a dance out in the meadows.
        Buttercup Gold, and Other Stories
        12
        Gravel grated beneath their feet, and about them was the transparent dimness of a midsummer night.
        The House of Mirth
        13
        Athwart the drab texture of consciousness wild fancies played like heat lightning in a still midsummer night.
        The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone...
        14
        When Jean woke, it was as dark as it ever is on a midsummer night in Scotland.
        The Gold Of Fairnilee
        15
        The vast site, spreading over hill and through dale, is a midsummer night's dream of unexpected entertainments.
        The Guardian
        16
        This midsummer night was sultry and still.
        The Baronet's Bride; Or, A Woman's Vengeance
        Translations for midsummer night