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MIDNIGHT

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midnight I. substantiv

1. miezul nopţii; miez de noapte; ora 12 noaptea;

as black / dark as midnight negru ca noaptea/ ca tăciunele.

2. întuneric beznă.

midnight II. adjectiv

de miezul nopţii, de noapte, nocturn; (fig.) întunecos;

midnight gloom întunericul nopţii;

midnight labours muncă de noapte;

to burn the midnight oil a se culca foarte târziu, a lucra până noaptea târziu.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Though near the midnight hour, it was bright day as he passed through the weary camp.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

It was then nine o'clock: he did not return till midnight.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

It was two or three hours past midnight when I got home.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Obviously the midnight visitor was some one whom the dog knew well.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When the light of the hall lamp fell upon our midnight visitor, I had no difficulty in recognizing him.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Imagination plays us strange tricks, and though I have as steady a nerve as a man might wish, I cannot answer for what I might see if I were to stand under that blood-stained ceiling at midnight.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I replied that I could not answer with any degree of certainty, for the ice had not broken until near midnight, and the traveller might have arrived at a place of safety before that time; but of this I could not judge.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In three hours—it was midnight, I well remember, and as dark as I had ever seen it on the sea—the wind, still blowing out of the south-west, rose furiously, and once again I was compelled to set the sea-anchor.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

But about midnight, when the robbers saw from afar that the lights were out and that all seemed quiet, they began to think that they had been in too great a hurry to run away; and one of them, who was bolder than the rest, went to see what was going on.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

"It is near midnight," I said.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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