"Middy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to settle 'em," muttered old Herrick, nodding approvingly. "I tell ye, Frank, my boy, it's as hard to git off any foolin' on our 'old man', as to git a 'pology out of a middy." ...
— Harper's Young People, May 4, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... provide Marguerite with a pair of shoes, and great was the little middy's joy when my lady found that she could put foot on English shore in ...
— The Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy
... did you ever, hot in love, a little British middy see, Like Orpheus asking what the deuce ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... Nelson replied, saluting like the middy in charge of the watch. And at this little turn they both laughed, and went on, with memory ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore
... sent a kind of a middy!" ejaculated Wicks. "Here you, Hardy, stand for'ard! I'll have no deck hands on my quarter-deck," he cried, and the reproof braced the whole crew ...
— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
... Anthony's twenty; one can't treat him quite as if he were six. He's absolutely unable to take care of himself; and I've always liked him—always! How COULD I see a girl like Mollie Temple—but of course you don't know her. She's with the 'Giddy Middy' company, playing ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris
... then, don't you recollect how we used to skylark in the lee scuppers with those jolly fellows, Buntline and Reeftackle, until the Luff had to hail, and send a Middy with his compliments to the gentlemen of the larboard watch, and to say, that if quite agreeable to them, less noise would be desirable? I say, Jack, you seem to have forgotten all these funny times in the Alert. Cheer ...
— Select Temperance Tracts • American Tract Society
... taken up aesthetic dancing in Mareb, wearing no stays and a middy blouse and short skirt; and during a fairy dance, where she was to twirl on her right toes, keeping the three other limbs horizontal, she twisted her right lower limb severely. Though not incapacitated, she could not use it ...
— Tish, The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... a file of marines. They walked in all the dignity of full dress across the plaza to the flag-pole, and formed in line on the three sides of it, with the marines facing the sea. The officers, from the captain with a prayer book in his hand, to the youngest middy, were as indifferent to the frightened natives about them as the other men had been. The natives, awed and afraid, crouched back among their huts, the marines and the sailors kept their eyes front, and the German ...
— Cinderella - And Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis
... 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 ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
... freckles! Her eyes, of an agaty gray-green, were transparently honest. She had brushed the untidy mop of red hair, parted it in the middle, and wore it in a thick bright plait, tied with a black ribbon. She wore a simple middy blouse and a well-made blue skirt. Altogether, she looked more like a normal young girl than he had yet ...
— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler
... the coffee-pot on the red-hot stove and perched on the edge of the bed. She was wearing a middy blouse of dull blue. It was small for her and showed her fine shoulder and full-muscled throat and chest. She drew a deep breath and ...
— Judith of the Godless Valley • Honore Willsie
... 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. It was worth while to hear D'Houdetot tell ...
— Memoirs • Prince De Joinville
... back as 1791, George Vancouver, a whilom middy of Cook's, discovered and named King George's Sound, when in command of H.M.S. Discovery. He formally took possession of the adjacent country, and remained there some days, making a careful survey of both the ...
— The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work • Ernest Favenc
... boats," I heard the English voice say, and from right under our bow a naval launch with a middy in charge swerved alongside. In a little while it, with a string of ...
— World's War Events, Vol. I • Various
... life," he said, pugnaciously. "I began as a middy in the American war of 1812, that nobody remembers now. Then I left the sea for the army. I knocked about the world. I commanded a brigade in ...
— Lady Rose's Daughter • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... the story saw him then. She was up and about, in a short sport suit, with a white tam-o'-shanter on her head and a white woolen scarf tucked round her neck. Under her belted coat she wore a middy blouse, and when she saw Lieutenant Cecil Hamilton, with his eager eyes—not unlike her own, his eyes were young and inquiring—she reached into a pocket of the blouse and dabbed her lips with a small ...
— Love Stories • Mary Roberts Rinehart |
