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