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“True,” quoth the King; whereupon he let make proclamation of his in tent to travel, and the troops and tents fared forth without the city, camping within sight, and Shahryar sallied out with them and took seat amidmost his host, bidding the slaves admit no man to him.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

She had broidered the said gown with roses and lilies, and a tall tree springing up from amidmost the hem of the skirt, and a hart on either side thereof, face to face of each other.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

North amid their noisome pits lay the first of the great heaps and hills of slag and broken rock and blasted earth, the vomit of the maggot-folk of Mordor; but south and now near loomed the great rampart of Cirith Gorgor, and the Black Gate amidmost, and the two Towers of the Teeth tall and dark upon either side.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

But as these ranges approached one another, being indeed but parts of one great wall about the mournful plains of Lithlad and of Gorgoroth, and the bitter inland sea of Núrnen amidmost, they swung out long arms northward; and between these arms there was a deep defile.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

Laid down then amidmost their king mighty-famous 3140

The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous

The said hall was lighted with candles, but not very brightly, save at the upper end; but amidmost a flickering heap of logs sent a thin line of blue smoke up to the luffer.

Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair 1895

They made stay at last on the rising ground, all trampled and in parts bloody, where yesterday Thiodolf had come on the fight between the remnant of Otter's men and the Romans: there they opened their ranks, and made a ring round about a space, amidmost of which was a little mound whereon was set the bier of Thiodolf.

The House of the Wolfings William Morris 1865

There already was much of the host gathered, sitting or standing in a great ring round about a space bare of men, where amidmost rose a great mound raised by men's hands and wrought into steps to be the sitting-places of the chosen elders and chief men of the kindred; and atop the mound was flat and smooth save for a turf bench or seat that went athwart it whereon ten men might sit.

The House of the Wolfings William Morris 1865

And still went up that column of smoke, and thicker and blacker it grew a-top, and ruddier amidmost.

The House of the Wolfings William Morris 1865

And bound to a rope amidmost were the women fair and young,

The House of the Wolfings William Morris 1865