"Mid-march" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Cotswolds in the last vacation before "Schools." In mid-March our dear gray Mother Oxford sends us away for six weeks while she decks herself against the spring. Far and wide we scatter. The Prince to Germany—the dons to Devon—the reading parties to quiet country ...
— Shandygaff • Christopher Morley
... It was mid-March when we finished working out our ground. We had done well, not so well, perhaps, as we had hoped for, but still magnificently well. Never had men worked harder, never fought more desperately for success. There were our two dumps, ...
— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service
... Canaries a three days', three nights' weather that truly drove us apart, the Pinta and the Nina. We lost each other in the darkness and never found again. We were beaten into the Tagus, the Pinta on to Bayonne. Then, mid-March, we came to Palos, landed and the wonder began. And in three days who should come limping in but the Pinta? But she missed the triumph, and Martin Pinzon was sick, and there was some coldness shown. He went ashore to his own house, and his illness growing worse he died there. Well, ...
— 1492 • Mary Johnston
... southwest monsoon (mid-May to September); dry, cool northeast monsoon (November to mid-March); southern isthmus always ...
— The 1991 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... Council appointed by National People's Congress (NPC) elections: president and vice president elected by National People's Congress for a five-year term (eligible for a second term); elections last held 15-17 March 2008 (next to be held in mid-March 2013); premier nominated by president, confirmed by National People's Congress election results: HU Jintao elected president by National People's Congress with a total of 2,963 votes; XI Jinping elected vice president with a total of ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency. |
