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Midnight sun   /mˈɪdnˌaɪt sən/   Listen
Midnight sun

noun
1.
The sun visible at midnight (inside the Arctic or Antarctic Circles).





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"Midnight sun" Quotes from Famous Books



... exclaimed Francesca. "She came from the Midnight Sun country, or up that way. She was very extravagant, and had something to do with Jingling Geordie in The Fortunes of Nigel. It is marvellous how one's ...
— Penelope's Experiences in Scotland • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... the northern night; we're in the land of the midnight sun. Soon we'll be shut in for seven months. A cabin we want, an' ...
— The Last of the Plainsmen • Zane Grey
... of the Last Battle is introduced as a pre-historic Norseman. Mr. Gladstone, we think, was perhaps the first to point out that the Laestrygonians of the Odyssey, with their home on a fiord in the Land of the Midnight Sun, were probably derived from travellers' tales of the North, borne with the amber along the immemorial Sacred Way. The Magic of Meriamun is in accordance with Egyptian ideas; her resuscitation of ...
— The World's Desire • H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang
... named in the preceding pages, Frederika Bremer wrote "The Diary," "Life in Dalecarlia," "Brothers and Sisters," and "The Midnight Sun." ...
— Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century • W. H. Davenport Adams
... description of the Norse galley is taken from Du Chaillu's "Land of the Midnight Sun," in which the construction of one which was unearthed at Nydam in Jutland is described (Vol. I. 380). The galley "Viking" built in Norway on the model of an actual Viking ship of the early Middle Ages, was taken across the Atlantic in 1893 by a Norwegian crew of fourteen, anchoring ...
— Days of the Discoverers • L. Lamprey
... so that the shepherd might earn double wages. In the other, cloud and darkness almost shut out the day. But we now know both of these statements to have a basis of solid truth on the Norwegian coast to the northward, at the different seasons of the midnight sun in summer, and of Christmas, when it is not easy ...
— Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 of 8 • Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne


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