midst
/mɪdst/ noun B2- A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location.
Plural midsts
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Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife.
The cyclone had set the house down very gently—for a cyclone—in the midst of a country of marvelous beauty.
The sun shone bright and the birds sang sweetly, and Dorothy did not feel nearly so bad as you might think a little girl would who had been suddenly whisked away from her own country and set down in the midst of a strange land.
They now came upon more and more of the big scarlet poppies, and fewer and fewer of the other flowers; and soon they found themselves in the midst of a great meadow of poppies.
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