midst

keskellä puhekieltä A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location.
{{quote-book|year=1905|author=w:Emma Orczy|Baroness Emmuska Orczy
1995, Mary Ellen Pitts, Toward a Dialogue of Understandings: Loren Eiseley and the Critique of Science, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=00JEA70gL0AC&pg=PA225&dq=%22midst%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1H9HVK2UHOK7mQWOp4K4Dw&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22midst%22&f=false page 225,

At dawn, in the midst of a mist that is both literal and the unformed shifting of thought, he encounters a young fox pup playfully shaking a bone.

As he said in "I Have a Dream," the Negro "lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity."

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