His step must be made before the hour of midnight.

They came to the flat together not far short of midnight.

A new day is considered to start with the stroke of midnight.

Tonight, you met him before his appointed hour of midnight.

In the moonlight his blue eyes were the color of midnight.

You be at your office on the dot of midnight.

They would come for him on the dot of midnight.

Where he will be the following week, at the stroke of midnight, I do not know.

The students then tell him that he will die at the stroke of midnight.

The strands were thick and dark, the color of midnight.