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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


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