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Definition of Middles
1. middle [v] - See also: middle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Middles
Literary usage of Middles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elbow-room: A Novel Without a Plot by Charles Heber Clark, Arthur Burdett Frost (1876)
"On Friday morning one of the Keysers was walking down on the river-bank, and he
saw a man who looked very much like Mr. middles sitting up ..."
2. Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts: ... Preserved in by Virginia, William Pitt Palmer, Sherwin McRae, Raleigh Edward Colston, Henry W. Flournoy (1884)
"His answer, I am well informed, was, he 2lst wou'd treat with Congress, tho' not
with Georgia. The middles promised the Chickasaws and Cherokees. ..."
3. Journal of the Society of Arts by Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1853)
"Board, thereby being able to use printed waste paper* for middles, a greater
quantity of loading matter, an! to enable them legally to do it they must cut ..."
4. A New Universal Gazetteer: Or Geographical Dictionary by Jedidiah Morse, Richard Cary Morse (1823)
"Eng. in middles« со. on the Thames, opposite Richmond, chiefly celebrated for va
nous elegant villas. 8 in. W. London. Pop. ..."
5. Appendix to Bennett's Latin Grammar for Teachers and Advanced Students by Charles Edwin Bennett (1895)
"... have been a defective name (cf. § 296), but it would have been accurate as
far as it went. 304. The Accusative with Passives used as middles. ..."
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