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Midland   /mˈɪdlˌænd/   Listen
Midland

noun
1.
A town in west central Texas.
2.
The interior part of a country.
adjective
1.
Of or coming from the middle of a region or country.  Synonyms: interior, upcountry.



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"Midland" Quotes from Famous Books



... vegetable mold which have been washed into the cracks, and get an abiding tenure. Earth worms follow either the roots or the mold. Permanent schisms are established in the clay, and its whole character is changed. An old farmer in a midland county began with 20-inch drains across the hill, and, without ever reading a word, or, we believe, conversing with any one on the subject, poked his way, step by step, to four or five feet drains, ...
— Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health • George E. Waring

... Bruce running northwest to Owen Sound and Teeswater, and the Toronto and Nipissing northeast to Coboconk and Sutton. Whitby also had its visions of terminal greatness, when the Whitby and Port Perry was built in the later seventies. The Port Hope, Beaverton and Lindsay, renamed the Midland, was pushed northeast to Orillia in 1872 and to Midland in 1875. Cobourg's unfortunate northern line was continued to the iron mines of Marmora. Belleville was linked with Peterborough in 1878-79 by the Grand Junction. Kingston, with the co-operation of ...
— The Railway Builders - A Chronicle of Overland Highways • Oscar D. Skelton

... his trips, taking the Midland over into Utah; and once or twice he had been seen on the rear end of the California Limited as it dropped down the western water-shed ...
— The Last Spike - And Other Railroad Stories • Cy Warman

... a single individual of the Slopperton Provisional Committee, but I was well enough acquainted with Cutts, whose present residence was in a midland county of England, where the work of railway construction was going actively forward. As I drove into the town where the Saxon had established his headquarters, I saw with feelings of peculiar disgust immense gangs of cut-throat looking fellows—"the navies ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 • Various

... in his room till the sun was high: But still did the feathered one give no sign Of opening a peeper—he might be a sleeper Such as rests on the Northern or Midland line. ...
— Verses and Translations • C. S. C.


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