Just at the moment he couldn't say more, though, because a sweet brown lamb of a middy came and whirled me away.
At half-past two in the afternoon watch any middy on duty told the officer of his watch that he was asked to dine with the Captain, and no power on earth could prevent you from leaving the deck.
It often happened that the poor middy found himself in close proximity to some dirty cook’s mate placed between two guns for neglecting to keep clean something under his charge.
It was a bitterly cold day, and (as is the custom when a ship is under canvas) the wretched middy of the watch had to walk the lee side of the deck.
The middystretched out his hand, which the broken-hearted sailor ventured not to take.
Having led the middy to the familiar summer house, where most of their earnest or important confabulations were held, Peter sat down and groaned.
Peter the Great left the room with a brave effort to suppress a groan; while our middy followed with an equally valorous determination not to limp.
But the middyhad recovered self-possession by that time.
You seem to have forgotten me, friends," said the middyin English, pulling a clasp-knife out of his pocket.
The middy was silent, for he could not see his way out of this difficulty.
At last the middy and his friend stopped in front of a stair which descended into what appeared to be a dark cellar.
The middy stood silent for a minute or so, lost in wonder and expectation, when another door opened and a female entered.
At this point, as there were symptoms of another breakdown, our middy became anxious, and entreated Hester to go on.
The middy lowered his hands in prompt confusion, for he had not attained to the Moors' sublime indifference to the opinion or thought of slaves.
No, Mother dear; it's the purely domestic variety; plain sewing and buttonholes and shirtwaists and middy blouses and how to hang a skirt, if I get so far along.
I'd like to make the middy blouses for the Ethels and have Mother pay me what they were worth, and then pay Mother for my board.
Mutually attracted by this common memory, the former middy and the old admiral used to spend their evenings relating their adventures to each other and their stories, which had begun by interesting, ended by fascinating me.
The middy understood that I was forced to abandon them, for he waved a farewell and let himself go.
The rope has swollen, sir, and the pendants won't unreeve," cried the middyin agony.
In five seconds the middy of the watch and half her crew were in the lee cutter, fitted with Clifford's apparatus.
A young middy lifted Staines in his arms from the wreck to the boat; he whose person I described in chapter one weighed now no more than that.
One lovely night that the ship clove the dark sea into a blaze of phosphorescence, and her wake streamed like a comet's tail, a waggish middy got a bucketful hoisted on deck, and asked the doctor to analyze that.
As soon as the matter was fully understood, the middy mounted his horse, and they proceeded on their mission down the river.
He was as ready to take part in the enterprise as even the middy himself, and he was conducted to the place where Paul was to meet the leader.
The middy found the two quartermasters, who boarded in the same house.
The middy watched her with the most intense interest as she approached the point where he was stationed.
Perhaps you will want him when you have seen him," added the middy roguishly.
About the tent, when off duty, she wore a short blue skirt and a blue middy blouse open at the neck and tied with a dark red ribbon.
As he turned to walk away, Johnny noticed a well built, wholesome looking girl in short skirt and middy standing a short distance off.
From her middy pocket she had produced three small sea shells and a tiny flexible rubber ball, and she was doing things with them on the back of her suitcase.
The little middy was highly complimented; and the captain promised to reward his courage and virtue with a good billet.
They contemplated the littlemiddy with wonder, for most of them had never seen a stowaway before.
The landlady of the old Constitution public-house was quite distressed to see the poor little middy in such a sorry plight.
Barbara wears middy bloses, too, but she cannot wear bloomers becose she is too old though she does not look old or grownup.
But Peggy, joining them in middy blouse and bloomers, reassured her in an excited whisper.
Last week she brought me home some lovly middy bloses like Peggy wears, and I play in bloomers all day and put on a white skirt for supper; Mr. Lee says Peggy and I look like twins.
She folded the last middy blouse neatly into a wicker suitcase.
They all woremiddy blouses in the picture and Peggy and Alice were barefooted.
Crowds of girls in blue middy blouses were gathered in groups about the recreation ground.
It took me only a few minutes to rub down and get into some dry clothes (thanks to middy blouses, which were surely invented for girls in a hurry).
Dee put her clean middy back on and in a jiffy we were down on the porch with the rest of the crowd.
Well, when I let it down tomorrow and get back into a middy you will find out what a mistake you have made.
She looked really magnificent on that morning of the sailing party and her grown-up, stylish clothes made all of us feel rather childish in our middy blouses and khaki shirts and hats.
It happened to be a middy that she had gone crabbing in, so it was not overly pleasant.
I'll stay at home if you do, Dum," and Dee began to take off the clean middy blouse she was in the act of donning to go on a sailing party that the boys from the camp were getting up for our benefit.
Ship my rullocks, why, it do seem but t'other day when you were a mite of a middy along o' me!
Fortunately Ella had been slim as well as tall and the middy blouse that Mrs. Donovan tried on Mary Rose did not look too much as if it had been made for her grandmother.
Mary Rose fairly squealed with delight when she was in the white middy blouse and the skirt flapped about her ankles in such a very grown-up manner.
The conversation was ceasing to interest me, so I went on deck, when the middy came up to me directly from where he was standing listening to the firing.
I loved him when he was a middy on board the Termagant.
Of course we can't go around in an old serge skirt and middy blouse as we do here.
The bath over, they returned to the bath houses to dress and Dolly found in hers, instead of her travelling suit, a serge skirt and middy blouse.
Dotty, enthusiastically; "we'll just wear short skirts and middy blouses, and spend all our time in the woods or on the lake.
Eight bells, sir," Lord Nelson replied, saluting like the middy in charge of the watch.
They have made me a baronet, for being away from home nearly every night of my life; and if I had Dashville to see to things here, I might stay away long enough to be a lord myself, like my late middy the present Duke of Bronte.
She slipped it under her middy blouse, where it was safe from detection, and sped upstairs with it.
When Gladys came down dressed in a white skirt and middy she could not believe her eyes.
She was all alone, apparently at a loss what to do in company, and--dressed in a white skirt and middy blouse!
It seemed to her that his eyes could look right through her middy and see the picture underneath.
A ripple of astonishment went through the rooms downstairs when she descended clad in a white linen skirt and a middy blouse.
Why not slip a skirt and middy over our bathing suits?
Goodness, I wouldn't like to chance it," said Mollie, slipping a middy over her head.
But the young middy turned on his back, loosened the rope all he could, and gave it a shake so as to send a wave along it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "middy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
