We ought to consider as a proof of what I now advance, that the best lawgivers themselves were those in the
middle rank of life, amongst whom was Solon, as is evident from his poems, and Lycurgus, for he was not a king, and Charondas, and indeed most others.
"If that be all your news," retorted Middle, "I can beat you clear to the end of the lane."
"The middle of the road on a hot July day is not a good place to talk things over.
Second, is the
middle class, your class, gentlemen, which is composed of farmers, merchants, small manufacturers, and professional men.
But surely there is no use for a Scarecrow stuck on a pole in the
middle of a river.
The place of manufacture was taken by the giant, Modern Industry, the place of the industrial
middle class, by industrial millionaires, the leaders of whole industrial armies, the modern bourgeois.
In the morning when he awoke, he began to search over hill and dale for this pretty flower; and eight long days he sought for it in vain: but on the ninth day, early in the morning, he found the beautiful purple flower; and in the
middle of it was a large dewdrop, as big as a costly pearl.
And there was nice split-bottom chairs, and perfectly sound, too -- not bagged down in the
middle and busted, like an old basket.
The doctor next turned to a stout man, who seemed to belong half to the peasant, half to the
middle class, the owner of a rough-pimpled but good-humored countenance.
Now I saw plainly the goodness of his observations about the
middle station of life, how easy, how comfortably he had lived all his days, and never had been exposed to tempests at sea or troubles on shore; and I resolved that I would, like a true repenting prodigal, go home to my father.
But in the
middle of the day, being full of cracks, and the air also being less elastic, it had completely lost its resonance, and probably fishes and muskrats could not then have been stunned by a blow on it.
There was a round score of muskets for the seven of us; the firewood had been built into four piles--tables, you might say--one about the
middle of each side, and on each of these tables some ammunition and four loaded muskets were laid ready to the hand of the defenders.