How To Use Middy In A Sentence
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An image of my middy blouse hanging alone on the clotheslines outside our kitchen window, buffeted by the wind, came to mind.
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It's also illegal to charge more for bottled water than a middy of beer or a glass of wine.
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The grub camp, with cook-shed attached, stood in the middle of the clearing; at a little distance was the sleeping camp with the office built against it, and about a hundred yards away on the other side of the clearing stood the stables, and near them the smiddy.
The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories
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News o him yon muckle callant, whistlin at the smiddy door
Gillie Mor
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I'd come in with a middy of light and he touched his glass to mine.
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Any one of these forges would have been a respectable "smiddy" in a country village.
The Iron Horse
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Jerome, the youngest of the whole family, the "middy," as Napoleon liked to call him, had been placed in the navy, in which profession he passed as having distinguished himself, after leaving his admiral in rather a peculiar manner, by attacking an English convoy, and eventually escaping the English by running into the port of Concarneau, believed to be inaccessible.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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Given this culture, the delight of abandoning long skirts and dresses, corsets and tight waists, and high button shoes for the bloomers, middy blouses, and comfortable walking shoes of camp was a welcomed liberty.
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They were big "ironstone" bowls the size of beer schooners, such as we used to see pictured at "Schmiddy's Place," with the legend, "Largest In The City, 5c.
The Iron Puddler
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Some one among the crew was humming the refrain of the old anchor-hoisting song, "Le Chien d'Or -- I love your Daughter;" a melody that has haunted the River St. Lawrence since the day when his comrades forcibly carried off Admiral Nelson, then a "middy," from the wiles and fascinations of the daughter of the landlord of "Le Chien d'Or.
"The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders
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Down a "middy" of Tooheys New (a downmarket brew but perfect for this pub) to whet your appetite for lunch.
City Walk: Sydney
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A 17 lb cobia was caught by Jan Anderson and two pompanos of 12 lb each were taken by Middy Campbell and Ray Milner.
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As might have been expected her garb was neither rich nor smart, but it was pretty and well made and evidently fitted for her life: a loose "middy," blue skirt, woolen stockings and rather solid little boots.
The Sky Line of Spruce
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What we're talking about is a middy of beer, or a small glass of wine, or a single measure of spirits.
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What we're talking about is a middy of beer, or a small glass of wine, or a single measure of spirits.
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Although no average cake would have held the candles to which Miss Mercy's birthdays entitled her, she was given to "middy" blouses and pink sweaters.
The Dude Wrangler
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The song was sung and recited in the streets, at the smiddy, in bothies, and by firesides, to the shaking of fists and the grinding of teeth.
Auld Licht Idylls
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Then later, when the schoolmaster would read from the Inverness Courier to one group after another at the post office and at the "smiddy" (it was only fear of the elder MacPherson, that kept the master from reading it aloud at the kirk door before the service) accounts of the "remarkable playing" of Cameron, the brilliant young "half-back" of the Academy in Edinburgh, the Glen settled down into an assured conviction that it had reached the pinnacle of vicarious glory, and that in all Scotland there was none to compare with their young "chieftain" as, quite ignoring the Captain, they loved to call him.
Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail
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So she searched again, and came upon a blue-and-white "middy" suit and a dark-blue "Norfolk.
Seven Miles to Arden
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Whether she wore a low middy collar or dressed reticently for school in a black suit with a high-necked blouse, she was airy, flippant.
Main Street
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She's gone in for dress reform now, you know, a kind of middy blouse made out of a striped portière with a kilted skirt of the same material and a Scotch cap.
Turn About Eleanor
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The girls wore gray sweaters or maroon blazers over their white middy blouses.
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If it is anything like the place in my neck of the woods, it would be full of booners drinking port out of middy glasses.
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There on the beds lay five complete riding suits: divided skirts of khaki, "middy" blouses of a cooler material, and soft Panama hats, each wound with a blue scarf and finished with a smart bow.
Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party
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At a place called "Dick's Tree," not far from Longtown, there still stands the "smiddy" where lived the blacksmith who had the honour of knocking off Kinmont Willie's fetters.
Stories of the Border Marches
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_Fatima_, the first swab, as I told you, got an ugly scrape in the leg that prevented him from moving; so when the second lieutenant was put in charge of the dhow to take her up to Zanzibar, I was the only responsible man the captain could think of to send cruising with the pinnace, as the middy was a harum-scarum youngster, who hadn't got thought enough, and neither the boatswain nor Chips could be taken away from their duties without perhaps the ship suffering.
The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace
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Their great place of congregating is still some country smiddy, which is also their frequent meeting-place when bent on black-fishing.
Auld Licht Idylls
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Ness looked up at the small robot as she straightened the red tie in front of her middy blouse.
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Stumpie's an awfu 'peppery budy, an' though the Smith leuch when he made his joke at the tailor's precentin ', Mertin got as raised as a wasp, and he yattered back -- "You'll maybe be better aff i' the ither place, wi 'your auld horse shune an' your smiddy reek, ye auld acowder ----
My Man Sandy
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All ready for letting fall, sir," the middy stationed in the foretop was the first to sing out.
Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
