How To Use Middling In A Sentence

The principal beneficiaries of these grants were the middling and lesser nobility.
The miller knows that there should be a difference in the dress for hulling stones, splitting or cracking stones, wheat stones, middlings stones and vertical burr stones.
middlings" for pancakes at home, when her mother was tired of buckwheat. A Little Girl of Long Ago
This means that a few get top marks, a big bunch get middling marks, and a few come near the bottom.
Evidence shows that smallholders and cottagers were less likely to have kinsmen on the manor than large or middling tenants.

The montage of icons does cohere into a sort of meta-icon perhaps, of dogs that are (for me) short-haired, middling-sized, with dark-brown fur; but this is … a sort of cubist collage of perspectives that spills out beyond its casual frame, each dog a Cerberus with three heads superimposed one over the other, snub-nosed and long-snouted, ears pricked and flattened, slavering and not slavering. Archive 2009-07-01
The title accurately expresses the contents, which largely ignore the "middling sort. The Two Thompsons
There were of course some local merchants and shopkeepers, but the size of this middling group was small. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
La Croix of the machine which has since been called the purifier, which removed the dirt and light impurities from the refuse middlings in the same manner that dust and chaff are removed from wheat by a fanning mill. Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
To say it has been a whirlwind for the 26-year-old would be like saying Franz Ferdinand's year was, well, fair to middling.
There might be one outstanding book and a few middling or indifferent ones.
Patel, who was middling the ball quite well during his 203 minute vigil at the crease, edged an outside-the-off-stump delivery from Akbar to see Kamran Akmal take a superb diving catch behind the stumps.
The essayists are not all British but all of their expositions are measured, well stated summations of a middling to moderately conservative treatment of Paul.
They've always had something more important to attend to - the creation of huge, middling and small fortunes for those who hold power.
On the other hand, civilization, house-building, warm apartments and kitchen fires, well-stored larders, and especially exemption from rude toil, abolish these extreme caricatures; and keeping appetite down to a middling level by the rote of meals, and thus taking away the incentives to ravenous haste, they allow the mind to tutor and variegate the tongue, and to substitute the harmonies and melodies of deliberate gustation for such unseemly bolting. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
There are a great lot of middling and high - class technician, management and stylist in our company.
middlings" and a double handful of the meat scraps bought especially for the ducks. Rainbow Hill
Variations on a theme that come together with that touch of raw thyme that harkens back to the days he was working with Colicchio at the Tavern, and mustard greens and parmesan adding hottish astringency and sourness, middling the dish right at the level food in a restaurant called Hearth should be. Augieland:
Wheat middlings were a primary ingredient in the protein supplements used in both trials.
While happy to mingle with aristocracy and royalty, he retained pride in his middling origins, claiming that the name Franklin itself echoed the status of his long line of freeholding ancestors.
Arabian Adventure is middling matinee fare, but the flying carpet scenes are spectacular. Times, Sunday Times
The food waste was obtained primarily from grocery stores and contained 75% moisture prior to mixing with wheat middlings.
So, Derek Jeter is the sexiest, which is why he is not included; the rest are the 10 next sexiest, but all of them are already sexy, though some are only middling sexy and score 3's (nobody gets a 2 or a 1, so why bother with them?) Wood War! Who Wins Today's Grabby Tabloid Battle For Your Eyeballs? (UPDATED!)
I was middling the ball well and continued from where I had left off after my good score against Zimbabwe in the previous game.
Our performance on the show this evening was fair to middling, I would say.
This type of middling product occurs even in the most precise separation processes, and valuable mineral so contained cannot be separated by further processing without additional comminution. Chapter 20
The goal of this study was to determine the nutritive value of a FW product containing FW, corn, and wheat middlings.
Women reply to rich men but, for some reason, men prefer women with middling incomes.
Far better to await a further sharp drop in mortgage rates into the high or even middling single digits.
It is a culture associated with the middling ranks of Scottish society, with the Scottish universities, and with the clubs, societies, and salons of Edinburgh.
The source material looks to have been in but middling shape, since the disc shows a fair bit of speckling with scratches and debris noticeable, particularly at the start and at reel changes.
These data indicate that traditional feedstuffs such as wheat middlings and soybean hulls can be nutritionally enhanced when amended with food waste and further processed by extruding or dehydrating.
We've seen some pretty middling horrible things already, and if these two men of ours call the frightful things we have seen normal, and are planning on deliberately hunting up things that even they will consider monstrous, you and I most certainly shall stay at home! Skylark Three
It's pretty middling stuff, with a tricksy mannerism of freeze-framing the action at the end of a scene, which makes it look like a dodgy DVD pressing.
But the middling adult contemporary slop, although awful, isn't what ultimately drowns the style.
D alated to commercial ice machines from fireroom practicably his leicestershire that the cuboidal fortunella is to centralised the zigadene and middling poultry flashily unoriginal. Rational Review
Colors are properly saturated and vibrant, black levels are solid, though the sharpness is good to middling.
If you take Pennsylvania Avenue now, it bypasses the marshy village and the middling town it once served.
In his study of fruit flies he had found that male fruit flies tend to have either lots of hairs on their bottoms or very few; female fruit flies have just middling hairy bottoms.
Where the middling strata were thin on the ground, as in Spain or Hungary, liberalism could take on a strong aristocratic tinge.
The price of wheat middlings may preclude their use in a dehydrated mixture containing human food waste, and acceptance of the feed product by producers may limit the retail value of DF as a feedstuff.
Music was meant to be heard through a surreal filter, and without it, the fair to middling material confronting me daily is left painfully naked, bereft of the alchemic powers of those magical elixirs.
He did the same for Ireland, galvanising a middling team into a team that was far greater than the sum of its parts.
Somewhere in the middling scenario looks most probable, but we are in unknown territory. Times, Sunday Times
Remainder doesn't pretend to anatomize the human mind, translating its ineffable qualities into sensible prose, as so much middling psychological realism post-Joyce and post-Woolf generally settles for. Point of View in Fiction
Wheat middlings were added to the CS diets to ensure that there would be similar fiber levels in the two treatments.
Twelve months ago most business leaders and most consumers were braced for a middling sort of downturn. Times, Sunday Times
Tasted the _custode's_ lachryma Christi, which, if it be as good of the sort as he pretends, is middling stuff, but not bad with water. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3)
We had a feeling it would either go like hot cakes or flop so we ordered a middling amount and we were about right.
The average Brit spends longer on the job than any other European in return for no more than an average GNP per capita and middling or low wages.
Still, compared to most academic texts, Jones's verbiage is only middling.
The route takes one round the middling slopes rather than over the tops of the low hills, and the surrounding countryside is rolling and gentle, so the feel is of shelter and calm more than distance and drama.
Perhaps the system will evolve toward a Gaussian distribution, with most people having a middling amount of money, while a few are very poor and a few are rich?
For decades Wycombe were a middling non-league club who played for 95 years at a ground, Loakes Park, notable for an 11-foot slope on the playing surface.
Her self-centered mother, Youle, the daughter of an Amsterdam Jewish oculist, was a seamstress and a courtesan of middling success. Actress, Seductress
A regrinding of the middlings from the coarse-material sorting considerably reduces the feed quantity for the grinding process. Chapter 20
Regarding the underlying issue, I would say that Carter in hindsight is fairly middling. Matthew Yglesias » Jimmy Carter
Increasingly a biological definition of gentility was being challenged and surpassed by a cultural one, which allowed an expanding middling order access, through an appropriate use of their wealth, to social kudos.
On the spare-rib and chine there is but little meat, and the pieces called middlings consist almost entirely of fat. Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Also sometimes middling turbot, with whiting, codling and large flounders; the small fish, as above, they sell in the country. A Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722
Forget the middling reviews you may have read previous to this one.
And yet, by the end of the century, its economy had declined to occupy a middling rank among Western industrialized nations, with its GDP per head below the average for the European Union.
Coming from a family of middling rank, he received little formal education, but soon developed a penchant for self-improvement and an ambition to better himself.
With the addition of corn and wheat middlings in this study, the FW product used as a dietary component appeared to have potential value as a feed.
Below that level, it is probable that there was much greater continuity, though we face the predictable problem that the evidence reveals little about the middling ranks of society.
In a series that's known for it's exciting and dramatic season finales, this one is only middling, but it's still very very good.
We're evaluating the production performance of fish fed these alternative carbohydrates to see whether they perform as well as fish fed diets that contain wheat or wheat middlings.
This diftinguilhed work fhews the ar - tift in a new point of view, as hither - to he has been confidcred as a portrait painter only, and that in a middling cfegree. The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer
The essayists are not all British but all of their expositions are measured, well stated summations of a middling to moderately conservative treatment of Paul.
Some of the smaller and middling towns are an equal delight. Times, Sunday Times
They either need to work or want to work, or both, but for those on middling incomes it is not possible to have lots of babies as well.
Both kinds contained, besides the dried fish (or meat) and lard, a certain proportion of dried milk and middlings. The South Pole~ Plan and Preparations
Pasta:Any of several starchy food pastes (pasta alimentaria) made from semolina, the purified middlings (endosperm) of a hard wheat called durum.
The middling distance that results as people pull back and forth is called politeness or civility. Bloodlust
Upon reasoning with myself, I should hope they are gone too far to discard you quite, and that they will give you something; which, although much less than they ought, will be (as far as it is worth) better circumstantiated; and since you already just live, a middling help will make you just tolerable. Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732)
On the one hand I suppose we should be flattered, we middling sorts. Times, Sunday Times
The more disillusioned they became, the less rancor they felt about the present day - which may help to explain the film's middling box-office career.
After the middling and mundane meal, a sub-group is scooting off to see a play around the corner, while several latecomers stay to eat and chat.
Doing so would benefit both the poorest and the middling sort. Times, Sunday Times
By the eighteenth century, masculine chastity was closely connected with one's respectability and membership among the middling sorts.
Of middling height, Arnold was badly overweight, with the bulbous red nose and watery eyes of someone long lost to the bottle.
One is that in the 1980s you find that per capita income growth in the United States was middling.
When we asked folks to rate leaders in various types of organizations, most got middling to poor grades on integrity.
By shifting the balance of tax exaction to consumption taxes, the government was able to reap the benefits of the growth in conspicuous consumption associated with the rise of the middling classes.
I thought she would be middling height or lower - not tall.
Merlot is still rather middling in the bigger picture. 2008 Harvest Report: Finger Lakes
I find it fairly ridiculous that the defacto leader of the “progressive” netroots faction is a middling film producer. Matthew Yglesias » House Progressives Willing to Back Modified Senate Bill, Centrist Senators Resume Customary Posture as Villains
It has already been mentioned elsewhere, that the only kind of mammalia found upon this island is a middling-sized cat, which feeds on the fruit of the pandanus tree, and makes its nest in the dead branches, which it easily hollows out. A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2
Between these extremes, the naturalist novelists tended to live in middling quartiers, thus occupying a symbolically inferior position compared to opponents like the ‘psychological’ novelist Paul Bourget.
The DF fed in this study contained 75% wheat middlings and 25% ground food waste collected from retail groceries.
While most people have a middling amount of good and bad luck, some people are lucky or unlucky for extended periods.
Rising rents have fed growth, too, but in SPG's regional malls they gained a middling 7% a year on average since 1996.
But on balance, his season so far is fair to middling.
The fact is, I focus on middling the ball for the ‘feel.’
Toppings are actually "middlings" in a Chicago deep dish. Undefined
His satirical little scheme to create a band so manufactured that they didn't actually exist at all (except in cartoon form) could easily have achieved middling success, or flopped entirely.
That means an increased number of clubs pursuing a mostly middling crop of free agent pitchers, resulting in spiraling contract numbers. Zito, Schmidt, Matsuzaka among arms up for auction
Like their social inferiors, however, the middling group was also highly vulnerable to new taxes, economic dislocations and other pressures.
_Petit-caporal_" smoking-tobacco, the delight of the middling classes of Paris, hardly suits an American's taste. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
Then there were patrons from the middling middle class. Times, Sunday Times
And so it has been for supporters of Roscommon and Leitrim who have seen ‘middling’ teams cause major and unexpected upsets over the years.
Fibrous feeds such as beet pulp, chopped alfalfa hay, rice hulls and wheat middlings elevate fiber content of a complete feed.
The price of wheat middlings might have a greater impact on the comparative economic value of DF than the cost per unit of the feedstuffs that the DF replaces in the diet of the cow.
The tenor playing Gerald, the Englishman who dares to love an Indian demi-goddess, was in middling form, dramatically and vocally.
Mostly she got middle billing in middling films. Times, Sunday Times
By those days, they were comprised mostly of the lower class and emotionally disturbed, white trash in Southern vernacular, and led by middling merchants or farmers that were a little smarter than the rest. Chris Matthews Unhinged - Curt_Levey’s blog - RedState
I finished my writing course, which was middling interesting, I guess.
During winter, the heifers grazed dormant crested wheatgrass and were supplemented with wheat middlings and alfalfa hay.
Some of these are made of the waste of flouring mills, known as "middlings, A Handbook of Health
For the paranoid fantasists amongst us there's a fair to middling chance that he didn't even leave continental USA.
the performance was middling at best
In any event, the nature of the middlings must be determined prior to any successive processing to prevent any unnecessary expensive regrinding of already-liberated material and resulting reduced recovery due to the increased proportion of fines. Chapter 20
Klepp said he stayed in bed so as to ascertain whether his heath was good, middling, or poor.
Beaumont's satire on the aspiring middling sort is presented kindly and with a generally inclusive warmth. The Times Literary Supplement
middlings" if you can possibly get them; they contain the best elements of wheat. Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six
A quick weather report for this morning is grey - headlights required - rain varying from slight drizzle to middling continuous.
But a President surrounds himself with advisors and filters what they say, and in this respect I remain unimpressed, which is not to say that he wouldn't have been at least fair to middling as these things go. Kerry Donor: Let's Give The Man Some Credit
As taxi drivers they are fair to middling, but with questionable standards of personal hygiene.
They were open-hearted, joyful, proud to pose for photos, even when approached by a middle-aged American speaking middling Mandarin. Tom Doctoroff: What Foreigners Can Learn at the Shanghai Zoo
The use of by-product feeds, such as wheat middlings, has the potential to decrease production costs when used in a RS feeding program.
The portraits that line a newly refurbished gallery provide a record of what might be called "ordinary" people, though Charles Dickens, on a visit to the U.S. in 1842, dismissed the works because they were of the "middling classes," deriding one as being by a traveling painter who had just "daubed the door of a nearby inn. Telling Our Story Across the Pond
The other candidates were all fair to middling.
During winter, the heifers grazed dormant crested wheatgrass and were supplemented with wheat middlings and alfalfa hay.
Columbia University neurobiologist Thomas Jessell has found that it takes middling concentrations of this potent morphing factor to produce a motor neuron and lower concentrations to make an interneuron (a cell that relays signals to other neurons, instead of to muscle fibers, as motor neurons do). TIME.com: Top Stories
Ireland are no more than a fair to middling international rugby side - and that's when their two world-class players are fit.
Looking again at the first five ingredients in the three recalled dog foods, we see wheat middlings, rice bran, more corn in the form of corn gluten meal, sorghum, still more corn meal, and brewers rice. Dr. Karen Becker: The Latest Recalled Dog Foods All Contain This Ingredient
Spathoglottis, and Anthogonium disappear; Xyris continues in abundance, likewise Eriocaulons, especially the middling - sized one; Bucklandia becomes more common and more developed; a frutescent Salix commences at 4,800 feet, as well as a Gramen Avenaceum vel Bromoideum. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
He followed a line of England managers who had had middling amounts of success but who had never realised the strong ambitions of a nation which yearns for success.
The Rays third baseman is hitting .441 (15-for-34) with five homers and 12 RBIs on the season, but is a middling 2-for-7 with five strikeouts versus the Yankees this week. USATODAY.com
Take middling cucumbers and cut them in slices, but not too thin, strow over them a little salt to bring out the water, put them into a stew-pan or sauce-pan, with a little gravy, some whole pepper, a lump of butter, and a spoonful or two of vinegar to your taste; let them boil all together; thicken them with flour, and serve them up with sippets. English Housewifery
Hillary was an undistinguished lawyer the smartest woman in the world but a bar exam flunker largely trading on hubby's clout, then a housewife, and then a 1+ term Senator of middling at best accomplishment. "As the red light atop the camera went dark... there was still much more I wanted to say to Chris Matthews, much more that I needed to say."
However, by-product feeds such as wheat middlings decrease growth performance of beef cattle when used at high levels in high concentrate diets.
Elsewhere, two middling indie efforts make up the numbers.
He had purchased supplies; coffee, flour, sugar, and a few sacks of sweet wheat middling, without salt.
If you wore slacks you were almost certainly a member of the golf club, you were neat and tidy and smart, you were destined for a middling job, an early marriage and early middle age.
In addition to the usual plants a Lagerstraemia occurs, which attains the size of a middling tree, and a frutescent Hypericum, Aristolochia, and Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
The public, better employed, with higher incomes, sometimes joined in bemoaning higher taxes which were, in fact, minimally extra on most middling earners.

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