The Submarine Boys and theMiddies OR The Prize Detail at Annapolis By Victor G.
And to teach the middies how to run a ’Pollard’ submarine.
During the last few days short cruises were taken on the Severn River, in order that the middies might practise at running the motors and handling the craft.
The next instant the submarine shot below, going down at so steep an angle that many of the middies were forced to reach for new footing.
The middies don't get a square deal," said Dick regretfully.
I can't understand how those little middies managed to treat us quite so badly.
Some of the middies will think we've come in on purpose to see how they take their beating.
The middies are at work here on the poop, each "with a sharp knife and a clear conscience," cutting away pieces of tarry rope.
A couple of middies pump up water from the sea, by means of a pump placed just behind the wheel.
One of the middies who took the part, was splendid, and evoked roars of laughter.
The officer stepped back and gave the command; the middies raised their swords and Clay passed between massed rows of his countrymen with their muskets held rigidly toward him.
Indeed the young middies had made themselves popular in the town by this time, and had done something to promote a feeling of confidence in the goodwill and clemency of the victors.
And if we go in Captain Dautray's ship, we shall have our middies for our companions, for they are to belong to the Royal William, too.
Constant companionship with the English middies had intensified their interest in the English cause.
The time of the second half was slipping away, and it now looked as though the middies might gradually have won by the steady, bull-dog quality of their tactics.
Indeed, to the spectators it seemed all that the middies could do against such big fellows as the visitors.
Up to the time of the Army-Navy game, the middies had a bright slate of eighty per cent.
Drop the father, and never go to him with tales; he has to treat you middies all alike.
The middies gave a cheer, and crowded round Syd as Terry bent over the locker to bathe his swollen face, and he looked up once, but did not say a word.
But to the great disappointment of all on board, there was to be no landing; even there the middies having to be content to buy cocoa-nuts, oranges, and sweetmeats off the black women whose boats hovered about the anchored frigate.
Commodore and Emperor, Lieutenants and Marquises, middies and pages!
The middies live by themselves in the steerage, where, nowadays, they dine off a table, spread with a cloth.
It never occurred to me then, that middies were as plentiful at Plymouth Dock, as black boys at Port Royal, though, perhaps, not of so much value to their masters.
All were the property of one man,--the huge and dusky sheik who had won Sailor Bill and the three middies at "desert draughts.
The three middies were once more installed in quarters that befitted them: while Sailor Bill and his brother, as well as their Krooman comrade, found a welcome in the forecastle of the man-of-war.
The submerged middies were now in a dilemma they had not dreamed of.
It was the maherry, however, that was seen coming back, for as it came near the three middies recognized the creature whose intrusion upon their slumbers of the preceding night had been the means, perhaps, of saving their lives.
Each of the middies had wealthy friends on whom he could draw for money, and they were in hopes that some English merchant in the city would advance the amount.
The middies called the rolls, and every man answered.
A young middy suggested the remedy, and a line of middies was formed from the quarterdeck to the sailors who were tugging at the steering apparatus.
The surgeon in the cockpit got his instruments and bandages ready, the powder-monkeys were in line, the middies strutted about every bit as proud as peacocks, and all the officers waited for the action to commence.
No one imagined in his heart that Jack was afraid, but boys like to tease each other, and even middies are no exception to the rule.
Each of the middies had wealthy friends at home on whom he could draw for money; and they were in hopes that some English merchant in Mogador would advance the amount.
All were the property of one man, the huge and dusky sheik who had won Sailor Bill and the three middies at "desert draughts.
The middieswere once more installed in quarters that befitted them; while Sailor Bill and his brother, as well as their Krooman comrade, found a welcome in the forecastle of the ship.
Middies and bloomers simply compel one to run and scamper.
Some of the middies of the flagship nudged each other and smiled at his pale face as he walked to the gangway.
There were many big games to be played, but most of all the middies longed to tow West Point's Army eleven into the port of defeat.
Come into the wheel-'ouse with me," invited the skipper pleasantly, which invitation the threemiddies accepted.
There are thirty-five hundred officers, middies and sailors of the American Navy to look after our safety.
Officers, middies and crew attended on board each vessel.
It was near noon, and would soon be time for the middies to eat.
Descending lower into the ship, the chief engineer led the young middies over a grating, and paused at the head of an iron ladder.
For two hours the three middies roamed through the streets, often meeting fellow classmen.
Looking eagerly ahead, the three middies saw two of the launches go along side of the "Massachusetts" and discharge passengers.
That directed the curious glances of other middies at Pennington's new bulbous nose.
That held the middies in check, for in no place, more than in the Navy, are orders orders.
But, the first chance that I have, I'm going to look the matter up and see whether the middies of old had any such fearful grind as we have our noses held to.
The remaining days of the voyage passed uneventfully enough, except for a great amount of hard work that the middies performed as usual.
The implements with which the middies worked soon became red-hot at the end.
Another group of restless middieshad sauntered up.
One of the French middies stepped forward suddenly.
The other French middies now gathered found and shook Jack and Frank both by the hand, while the one who had first made himself odious apologized profusely for his actions.
When it was all over the middies cheered the victors as lustily as anyone, though sore hearts beat under the blue uniforms of Annapolis.
Within fifteen yards of the Army goal line the middies carried the ball, by easy stages.
He hoped yet to show these over-confident middies something.
The middies of the Navy on the other hand, can smile at many and many a defeat, provided the Army trails behind the Navy at the annual football game.
All the signs are that the middies are going to walk roughshod over us.
They were fine looking girls, every one of them, with their dazzling white middies and blue ties.
The girls, clad in blue skirts and white middies and heavy sweaters, were whirled down to the dock in the Evans's automobile, with the Keewaydin tied upright at the back.
And similarly, granting it to be right to earn half a sovereign by pressing a man contrary to law, where was the wrong in "clearing him of the impress" for the same amount, as was commonly done by the middies at Sunderland and Shields.
A man fell dead on the pink's deck, and before morning the two middies were safe under lock and key in that "dismal hole," Durham jail.
We just had time for a hasty dip in the briny and a hastier toilet in the way of middies and khaki skirts, when Blanche appeared to announce that our repast was reserved.
My order was almost a duplicate of the year before except that I did not need quite so many things, as I had a goodly number of middies left over and some shirt waists.
Commander Nesbitt as soon as he saw the middiesand their men coming down from aloft.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "middies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
