midst

A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location.

Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.

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.

Among, in the middle of; amidst.

Mildred comes home from work early only to discover her husband, Robert, midst of a lewd affair with their neighbor, Gladys.

She puts the period often from his place ; And 'midst the sentence so her accent breaks