It did make Susan look middling ghastly, as if quarantined from all access to Hygeia, the goddess!
You've a middling good library, and she'll browse.
But he found it so hard and uncomfortable that it made his bones ache, and he jumped down at once and got into the middling chair, and he turned round and round in it, but he couldn't make himself comfortable.
Then he tried the middling saucer, and he drank a little of that.
One of them was a great big Bear, and one was a middling Bear, and one was a little Bear.
And then the Bears took him to the window, and the big Bear took two legs on one side and the middling Bear took two legs on the other side, and they swung him backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards, and out of the window.
The old-fashioned way of preparing it was to boil meat and cabbage together, and serve, reeking with fat, the cabbage in quarters, soaking yet more of the essence from the ham or middling about which it lay.
Parboil a piece of the middling of salt pork, and score the skin.
I was middling good at most of their games and would get sudden spurts when I would become almost a leader.
I was middling small, with a square jaw, snub nose and sandy hair.
Nioungdoa is a middling sized village, situated about a mile from the mouth or entrance, at which were observed plenty of boats.
Halted at Meengian, which is a middling sized village on the left bank, about a mile below Tarof myoo.
In addition to the usual plants a Lagerstraemia occurs, which attains the size of a middling tree, and a frutescent Hypericum, Aristolochia, and Hedyotis occur.
Nhempean, on the right bank of the Namtoroan, is situated on an extensive open grassy plain, it is stockaded: it contains about 12 houses, the river is here navigable formiddling sized canoes.
We havemiddling tough times (as some would call them) but have enough to eat, and abundant reason for the most unfeigned gratitude.
Here we have the germ of that middling class, which is the best reliance in every community, and which can never co-exist with slavery.
There was the same injudicious system of apportioning the soil into large plantations, to the utter exclusion of small farmers; for slavery always renders the existence of a middling class impossible.
We are all agreed about the middling and indifferent parts of knowledge and morality; even the most soaring spirits too often take them tamely upon trust.
If a light is not rather more than middling good, it will be radically bad.
Another of Addison's favorite companions was Ambrose Philips, a good Whig and a middling poet, who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.
The prejudice in favour of his son, David Teniers the younger, is so great that the father is generally esteemed but a middling painter; and his pictures not worth the inquiry of a collector.
His father, Justus Van Huysum, who dealt in pictures, was himself a middling painter in most kinds of painting.
Serildy Byng, his next-to-last, was a middlingcivil woman; but she never stayed long.
Of course there is plenty of corn-meal, beans, middlingand sorghum, so there is no danger of starvation.
It is a prevalent idea among us middling people, that a good government must be a moderate one; and we are exceedingly apt to judge of the spirit of the government from the spirit of our rulers.
She was rather tall than of a middling stature; and had a dignity in her aspect and air, that bespoke the mind that animated every feature.
By the poor and middling sort especially, no young lady was ever so much beloved.
Handsome settlements, and a chariot, that tempting gewgaw to the vanity of the middling class of females, were the least that she proposed to herself.
I hope you will find it inmiddling order," said Mrs. Patton, humbly.
Cap'n Wall he told me that if he had her before the wind with a cargo of cotton, she would make a middling good run, but load her deep with salt, and you might as well try to sail a stick of oak timber with a handkerchief.
Whether we are leading good lives, or middling lives, or utterly bad worthless lives, has it not everything to do with us?
Planters are large bodies of trees firmly fixed by their roots in the bottom of the river, in a perpendicular manner, and appearing no more than about a foot above the surface of the water in its middling state.
His parents were honest people in middling circumstances, who yet took such care of his education that he was fit for any business to which he would have applied himself.
His parents were persons in middling circumstances, but he being their eldest child, they treated him with great indulgence, and to the detriment of their own fortune afforded him a necessary education.
Nevertheless, she set about her task in good earnest, and called upon every one of the name in the middling classes of life, to ascertain if they were relations of her husband.
This was a Mr. Bridgenorth, a gentleman of middling quality, whose father had been successful in some commercial adventure during the peaceful reign of James I.
