| 单词 | midden |
| 例句 | “But this isn’t even limping. A limp has rhythm. This is more like someone falling down a set of stairs. Uneven stairs. With a midden at the bottom.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Without stopping to ask, she grabbed it up and ran with the child into the middle of the midden. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In middens around Yellowstone National Park, he said, they first show up in large numbers about five hundred years ago, the time of the great epidemics. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The cottage stinks like a midden — baby’s mess everywhere. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z And they are sometimes almost entirely without other traces of the human presence, such as middens. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As she fell asleep, she was sure the smell of the midden had gotten into her pores; that there was not enough water in the camp—in all of Poland—to wash her clean. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When she set the naked baby down by the side of the pile in order to get out of her own dress, the child immediately began crawling toward the midden on its own. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z On the cave floor what looked to me like nothing in particular turned out to be an ancient midden: a refuse heap. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When they got to the midden, they skinned out of their clothes and dove naked into the dump. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Psychically, it was a rabbit hole, a midden, hot with the frictions of tightly packed life, reeking with emotion. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z His beard was like a forest of ice-covered trees in midwinter, his eyebrows like a field of thistles, his breath as rank and foul as a midden in a bog. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z There was no movement from the midden pile, where the bright shorts and blouses of the children marked their passage. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They have a special midden where they put out their used bones and rubbish, proper earth closets, and bedrooms whose bedding they turn out frequently, to keep it clean. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z What they found instead was a midden heap, a pigsty, an empty sheepfold, and a windowless daub-and-wattle hall scarce worthy of the name. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “But the most important thing for you to know is the midden,” Rivka said. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The altar was buried under a midden of debris. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Elk are big and Indians may have butchered them where they fell, meaning that few elk carcasses would appear in middens. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And VanderMeer does not neglect the symbolical aspects of events, as when Jane must shelter ironically in a midden of pelts: Review | Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Hummingbird Salamander’ is a gripping eco-thriller full of cinematic set pieces 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Just a mile up the river are huge historic middens created by the discarded shells of Native Americans. For a real taste of Midcoast Maine as it was — and should be — head to Damariscotta 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Kwon in “The Incendiaries,” Englehardt finds ample material on a fictional campus, this time in Arkansas at Ozarka University, driving distance from rural communities where four-wheelers flatten the blackberries between diaper middens. Review | In the story of a mass shooting, ‘Bloomland’ reveals the bloody tapestry of a beleaguered nation 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z The archaeologists hope to locate a potential treasure trove, the midden and rubbish dump. Dig seeks William Shakespeare's shards for ale in his Stratford back garden 2010-04-05T16:33:00Z And her flighty grown-up daughter, Jenny, stalks out of what she terms a "midden" to seek a better life. Men Should Weep - review 2010-10-26T23:25:00Z It’s an eerie counterpoint to the shell middens and arrowheads found when Betsy arrived. New Life for the Wyeth Legacy Five Miles Out to Sea 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z These snowbanks, or “midden heaps,” as Durham calls them, are from attics, basements, personal archives, and libraries across the country. The San Francisco Bookstore Where the Revolution Ends up 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z In front of him on the newspaper was a small midden of forest debris and dirty mushroom shavings. Don’t shoot me! I’m just picking mushrooms! 2013-09-08T13:30:00Z In the summer of 2022, a team of researchers visited Greenland to take soil samples from heaps of human and animal waste, or middens, dating from the smallpox epidemic and before. Permafrost can imprison dangerous microbes for centuries. Will the Arctic thaw release them? 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z Their bones have been recovered from refuse piles -- called middens -- alongside shells, fish bones and other scraps from previous meals. Caribbean parrots thought to be endemic are actually relicts of millennial-scale extinction 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z These practices include generating "middens" -- piles of waste and food scraps, similar to compost heaps, that are maintained in certain locations around the center of a village. Ancient Amazonians intentionally created fertile 'dark earth' 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z The researchers calculated about 4500 tons of stored soil carbon at one archaeological site, whereas the modern village had 110 tons of carbon stored in middens. Ancient Amazonians created mysterious ‘dark earth’ on purpose 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z The most vulnerable sites are shell middens: sometimes extensive, extremely dense layers of shell and other material that yield more insight than the layperson might imagine. Erosion threatens Kalaloch cabins — and archaeological data underneath 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Additional evidence, like shell middens that bore evidence of having been eroded by strong currents, hinted at a potential paleotsunami. Ancient Tsunami Detectives Hunt for Long-Lost Cataclysms 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Or take a sea kayak tour from Ganges out to Third Sister Island, where you’ll see a large Indigenous shell midden at Chocolate Beach. Tacoma author creates an illustrated travelers atlas for PNW islands 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Previous annual red squirrel surveys focused on visiting all known “middens,” or areas where red squirrels store their cones. Population increase for endangered red squirrels in Arizona 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Wearing my lovely new walking boots, I suddenly realise I have stumbled on a "midden" - a pungent pile of rhinoceros poo. 'I'm blind, but loved going on a must-see safari' 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z So far, none of the tribes he works with has insisted on midden preservation — though that’s a conversation he’d like to intensify in the coming year, as the erosion threat increases. Erosion threatens Kalaloch cabins — and archaeological data underneath 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z I do remember wondering what a “midden” was. Review | Auden was more than a great poet. Two books remind us why. 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Check out Montague Harbour Marine Provincial Park, a favorite of boaters and campers, or Dionisio Point Provincial Park, with 3,000-year-old shell middens and a pair of lighthouses just outside the park. Tacoma author creates an illustrated travelers atlas for PNW islands 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Game and Fish officials said that method didn’t systematically detect middens created by red squirrels as they moved to new or different areas on the mountain. Population increase for endangered red squirrels in Arizona 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Martinelli is turning to oyster middens—essentially, piles of shells left over from ancient oyster feasts—to unravel Polydora’s history in the Pacific Northwest. The Scientists Fighting for Parasite Conservation 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Tierra del Fuego National Park is only about eight miles from Ushuaia, and one day, we hiked on its misty shore, past mossy middens where the early Yamana dumped shells, crude harpoons and other detritus. Going all in on adventure in Patagonia 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z “There is shell midden over here,” he said, referring to the mix of broken bone and shell left from cooking fires hundreds and thousands of years ago. The Port Gamble lumber mill closed decades ago. Now the tribe that was forced from the land is returning 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z And archaeologists have observed ovens, middens and stone tools on subantarctic islands dating back as early as the 14th century, suggesting that Polynesian people lived in the region for at least one summer. The Maori Vision of Antarctica’s Future 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z The new method involves systematically searching for active middens within survey plots designed to capture the majority of red squirrel habitat in the Pinaleno Mountains. Population increase for endangered red squirrels in Arizona 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z She confirmed that 1,000-year-old native Olympia oyster shells recovered from Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe middens bear signs of some type of burrowing worm. The Scientists Fighting for Parasite Conservation 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z These lands and waters also speak for themselves, in layers of history and time, read in pollen records and shell middens, in extirpation, in displacement and persistence. We’re changing the habitat for the orcas and salmon — and not for the better 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z Also, there are no animal bones, no camp fire chars, no middens or other sorts of trash heaps to help. Scientists unravel a mystery about a naked giant carved into an English hill 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z In 2018, for example, researchers homed in on plant pathogen DNA in fossil middens from Chile’s Atacama Desert, and another team found the oldest known papillomavirus in a 27,000-year-old midden in the Grand Canyon. Reading the Past in Old, Urine-Caked Rat’s Nests 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z This enables new middens to be detected as they are created and activity at these middens is then used to estimate the population size. Population increase for endangered red squirrels in Arizona 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Martinelli plans to excavate more recent oyster middens to see if she can pinpoint the parasite’s introduction into local bivalve populations. The Scientists Fighting for Parasite Conservation 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z The midden was layered in white bands in the ground stacked head-high along the shore. Where are the salmon and the orcas? Tribe, scientists grapple with unprecedented disappearance in Washington waters 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z One theory archaeologists are knocking about is the trove or artifacts might have been a midden or pit where detritus was tossed. Crews dug through sewer lines. They found ancient pottery 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z For the latest study, they extracted DNA from 25 middens, the oldest of which dates back 48,000 years. Reading the Past in Old, Urine-Caked Rat’s Nests 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Last year's excavation also uncovered a large shell midden, a place where the hunter-gatherers threw the uneaten remains of shellfish. Tools discarded 6,000 years ago found 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Each tide washes away midden, domestic waste heaps, that provide a “cultural and economic biography,” Professor Bond said. Saving Scotland’s Heritage From the Rising Seas 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Each tide washes away midden — domestic waste heaps — that provide a “cultural and economic biography,” Bond said. Rising seas threaten to wash away Scotland’s heritage 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z This sort of caching is common among squirrels, and the animals have been known to stockpile all sorts of interesting things in their middens, or store-rooms. These Adorable Squirrels Are Also Baby-Killing Cannibals 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z More than half of the midden DNA they identified was bacterial and there was some evidence of ancient viruses. Reading the Past in Old, Urine-Caked Rat’s Nests 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Johnson said many of the bones were retrieved from ancient Native American garbage heaps, called middens, in archaeological digs beginning in the 1940s. Study: Decline of salmon also impacts salmon genetics 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Working with several Native American tribes, they collected a trove of 346 samples of vertebrae from archaeological sites at Native American garbage piles, or middens, some dating back 7000 years. Pacific Northwest salmon are in big genetic trouble 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z With funding from Maine Sea Grant, she has surveyed six middens. Native American secrets lie buried in huge shell mounds 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Miller said in addition to the cultural information buried in the middens, the shells are also a record of ancient climate. Native American Secrets Lie Buried in Huge Shell Mounds 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Shell middens are layers of cooking remains, particularly bones, shell and grease, deposited through years of human use of a site. Land transfer brings closure to Lummi tribe 20 years after ancestors’ remains disturbed 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z With Beatrice home for the summer, my little middens are competing with hers: stacks of handwritten flash cards that read “Negligent infliction of emotional distress” and “When does intestate succession occur?” Perspective | Make way for Beatrice. My adult daughter is back for the summer. 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z The shell middens contained periwinkles, which are small sea snails, and cod. Cultural sites uncovered in Alaska island survey 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z Miller said in addition to the cultural information buried in the middens, the shells are also a record of ancient climate. Native American secrets lie buried in huge shell mounds 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z With funding from Maine Sea Grant, she has surveyed six middens so far. Native American Secrets Lie Buried in Huge Shell Mounds 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z “We literally drove around the county, looking for fresh piles of shell midden in people’s yards,” said Alyson Rollins, today a physical anthropologist for the tribe. Land transfer brings closure to Lummi tribe 20 years after ancestors’ remains disturbed 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z “From behavioral observations we were really sure that rhinos were using middens to gather information about each other,” Marneweck said. With poor eyesight, white rhinos use poop for social communication 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z “A shell heap or shell midden — it’s basically their trash.” Archaeologists and Metal Detectorists Find Common Ground 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Soctomah said he keeps an eye on middens in eastern Maine. Native American secrets lie buried in huge shell mounds 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z Dr. Soctomah said he keeps an eye on middens in eastern Maine. Native American Secrets Lie Buried in Huge Shell Mounds 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Two graduate students in rubber overalls hose 700-yearold soil off unidentified excavated objects near a midden downhill from a collapsed house. Why did Greenland’s Vikings disappear? 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Starting about 9000 years ago, the Honshu Jōmon began to bury their canine companions in shell middens—huge piles of seashells where they also typically interred their human dead. Prehistoric Japanese graves provide best evidence yet that dogs were our ancient hunting companions 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Archaeologists are also mystified as to why the structure was covered over by a huge midden. Mystery stone structure under Neolithic dump on Orkney - BBC News 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z But the shell middens of Maine are under threat. Native American secrets lie buried in huge shell mounds 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z They’ve launched an “archaeological rescue” of their most important site, a shell midden--actually an ancient garbage pile--that documents the life of people who for millennia used an adjacent islet as a fishing camp. This Canada Island Is Losing Ground But Not Losing Hope 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Even Diamond had noted that bones of seals comprised 60% to 80% of the bones from trash heaps, called middens, found at small Norse farms. Why did Greenland’s Vikings disappear? 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z “These are lands historically occupied by tribal members and ancestors, and include tribal cemeteries, sacred sites, Indian mounds, archaeological sites, village sites, shell middens and traditional fisheries.” Small Point-au-Chien Indian tribe sues over 2010 oil spill 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z “The Oral History is a great hodgepodge and kitchen midden of hearsay,” Joseph Mitchell reported in his first piece about Gould, published in The New Yorker in 1942. The Long-Lost Tale of the World’s Longest Book 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z “To the Passamaquoddy, the shell middens are a link to the past, and give us an idea of how life was at a certain time and what people consumed,” Soctomah said in a phone interview. Native American secrets lie buried in huge shell mounds 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z The immense midden, comprised of shells and other refuse, hinted at an ancient occupation. Could These Be the Oldest Human Footprints in North America? 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z "You start to see old data, like the seal bones in the middens, in a new light. It's exciting to get a chance to revise your old thinking before a younger colleague can," he says. Why did Greenland’s Vikings disappear? 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The hillside was part of a midden, an ancient shell pile left behind by earlier seafood-eating peoples, in this case California's indigenous coastal Miwok tribe, and carbon-dated to over 1,000 years old. The Oyster Shell Game “Shell midden is simply the end result of human contact with the near shore habitat,” he said. Shell work may take time in the repair pit for Bertha 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z They bring home abundant cowpats, rabbit pellets and other animals’ dung, often leaving it just outside the midden. Real pack rats aren’t actually that disorganized, researchers say 2014-02-24T23:02:04Z The descent to the sloth’s midden affords the pregnant moths in its fleece a chance to lay eggs. The Sloth’s Busy Inner Life 2014-01-27T20:32:03Z Ancient productivity Thousand-year-old mounds of discarded oyster shells, called middens, that line the banks along parts of Maine's Damariscotta River attest to the productivity – and Native Americans' ancient appetite for – local oysters. On the Rebound, New England Oysters Face Climate Change Threat 2013-04-17T15:45:11.737Z I had an inquisitive mind as a child and once wondered what would happen if I tied a washing line round my neck and jumped off the midden yard wall. Viewpoint: Poverty is a state of mind 2012-11-28T11:59:58Z Some people turn their homes into packrat middens. Hoarders Have Their Own Category of Disorder 2012-08-13T21:15:08.950Z Its midden home may look like a heap of sticks, but inside, what a floor plan. Real pack rats aren’t actually that disorganized, researchers say 2014-02-24T23:02:04Z But the mise-en-scene in our midden can, if nothing else, be seen as a very lazy, phoned-in metaphor for today's total and utter lack of interesting news coming out of Camp England. The Fiver 2012-06-13T15:05:34Z A lovely day of children writhing in their hellish hormonal middens … good night vile innocents may you all seethe in bilious acid pus ... Mountaineer laughs off Twitter row with 'spotty schoolkids' 2012-05-24T14:52:44Z "Surely a pearl found on a midden!" he thought. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z For example, ancient middens, essentially preserved dumps of food waste such as bones and shells, were studied to glean the historical diets of the Aleuts. No Omnivore’s Dilemma for Alaskan Hunter-Gatherers 2012-02-19T22:26:13Z It has only eighty houses of the most wretched construction, rivalled in height and size by middens, the drainage of which wastes itself on the wretched roadway. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z Like a great, uncertain, bewildered animal, turning now this way and now that, guided by the unwieldy poplar poles, it lurched up the watering-place and stuck on the midden. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z It seems the mystery of the ichthyosaur midden is far from solved. Kraken Versus Ichthyosaur: Let the Battle Commence 2011-10-12T00:15:05.920Z There would be a few empty huts of leaves, with old ashes at the entrances, and a midden with its usual gorgeous butterflies. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z In fact, numerous such shell middens are visible around the reef. Diver Snaps First Photo of Fish Using Tools 2011-07-08T21:48:53Z Our right flank rested upon a dunghill, or, rather, a kitchen midden, a public store of all manner of beastliness and the playground of the little schoolboys. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z This is not the daughter of a villainous churl, bred and reared on a midden, take note. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z In McMenamin's purported midden, the kraken would play with the bones of the unfortunate ichthyosaurs, perhaps even arranging them into deliberate patterns. Kraken Versus Ichthyosaur: Let the Battle Commence 2011-10-12T00:15:05.920Z They stood about a ruin of felled trees, with a midden and its butterflies in the midst. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z More significantly than the return of shutters, chimneys and middens, there's a revival in the use of natural building materials, substances with small environmental footprints like wood, wool insulation and lime mortar. Going medieval: Live like Bess of Hardwick 2011-04-12T19:30:00Z I picked up a Roman coin once where a midden had been disturbed, for they are very old. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z When the researchers dug into the islands, they found ancient middens full of bone remains. Will Today's Trash Be Tomorrow's Island? 2011-04-03T15:15:00.257Z The midden was 150 ft. round, and over 12 ft. high. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z His face is broad and red, his ears purple, and his aspect is anything rather than aristocratic as he stands giggling and jesting with the damsels of the steaming midden. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z Beneath these so-called perched carbonate layers the researchers found more peat and a midden. Prehistoric Garbage Piles May Have Created 'Tree Islands' 2011-03-22T22:35:27Z And one of the uses of these middens is to provide food for the utterly poor. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z Behind them—for, hill-fashion, they were perched on the edge of all things—the ground fell sheer two thousand feet to Shamlegh midden, where never yet man has set foot. Kim 2011-03-13T03:00:25.327Z The building of new slurry stores and middens was seen as necessary to help reduce nitrates seeping into waterways such as Lough Neagh and the Erne. Taxpayers lose out in land deal 2011-03-09T06:25:06Z It may be a good omen that this midden contained faunal remains, including tiny fish bones. Scientist at Work: The Maya Archaeologists at Ceibal 2011-02-20T16:19:08Z There was a large courtyard where the chickens clucked all day, and children and cattle roamed unchecked in the spacious midden. The Secret Battle 2011-02-06T03:00:59.983Z They decay or are destroyed by fire, and they are rebuilt upon these middens. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z That we do not need we shall throw on Shamlegh midden, where no man has yet set foot.' Kim 2011-03-13T03:00:25.327Z Shadowy columns moved through the murk along pathways fast turning into middens, drawn towards the magnet of the first tee, its horseshoe grandstand heaving with anticipation. Westwood leads from front in the gloom 2010-10-01T19:34:00Z However, the task is worth doing, and the tedium worth undergoing, because very, very occasionally, a treasure will be discovered amid the midden. Gordon Brown's Ode to Post Neo-classical Endogenous Growth Theory 2010-05-10T12:11:00Z Possibly the party kept too far inland to see the shell midden sites along the Bay shore. The Aboriginal Population of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California I could easy throw him on t' midden, but that wouldn't mend matters. Windyridge If the city thought less about itself as a metropolis and more as a midden, its state would be better. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel I midden is I may not; I cooden, I could not. Lectures on The Science of Language He was ever of the extreme opinion—as my mother used often to say, "Our Sandy was either in the moon or the midden"—but in my judgment oftenest in the latter. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway If you boys have no objection, I think I'll spend the afternoon at my midden. The Wailing Octopus The collection also included some potsherds and shells from a midden on the shores of the bay. A Burial Cave in Baja California The Palmer Collection, 1887 Right from the old pa on the top of Marahemo down to the very foot, there's the Maori middens: a regular reef of nothing but shell, oysters and pipi and scollops and all the rest. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand He alluded to the clergy as 'priests sitting upon their golden middens and crunching the bones of the people.' The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice One corner of this midden is bricked off to form a drainage pit. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders Tony departed for his Indian midden, tools slung over his shoulder. The Wailing Octopus At the same time unworked specimens were found and collected both from the cave and from the midden which occupies the bay shore just east of the cave. A Burial Cave in Baja California The Palmer Collection, 1887 Everything ragged, filthy, listless; the very cauliflowers they were selling looking all stalk, fit for that refuse midden which symbolises the city. The Spirit of Rome The first group of these observations and discoveries relate to "middens" or shell-heaps. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest Then he jerked his head in the direction of the carcase upon the midden. Jonah and Co. A midden is a polite name for a refuse heap. The Wailing Octopus The eggs are laid in old manure heaps and kitchen middens, and the maggots, which eventually are transformed into flies, nourish themselves in those accumulations. More Science From an Easy Chair "You throw your friends on the midden," he said bitterly, and departed to establish a modus vivendi on his own account with the Turks. Pan-Islam Ye wad marry a midden for the muck. The Proverbs of Scotland After the first glad shock, it was our habit to rummage in the general midden outside our stockings. Chimney-Pot Papers But after that I think Hobart and I can amuse ourselves on the midden while you and Scotty hunt treasure. The Wailing Octopus Before night these kitchen middens were an inch or two deep and nearly a foot in length, composed, literally, of thousands of skins, wings, and insect armor. Edge of the Jungle On this he played in the cowhouse on winter evenings, and from the top of the midden outside in summer. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 He'll shoot higher that shoots at the moon, than he that shoots at the midden, e'en though he may miss his mark. The Proverbs of Scotland Those villages did not exist, except as corruption in a land that was tumbled into waves of glistening clay where the bodies of men were rotting disregarded like those of dogs sprawled on a midden. Old Junk There was no sign of activity at the frogmen's house, nor could they see Tony at work on his midden, since the location was hidden by palms. The Wailing Octopus The cleaning zones, the cripples' gathering-room, all had given way to new activities, on the flat board, down near the kitchen middens, and in every horizontal crack. Edge of the Jungle The last we catched, Jem Sludge, we belaboured in such fashion as I verily think he waur more like a midden' nor a man when he got his neck out o' th' collar. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 From this shell-fish may be taken, as they have been before, being, no doubt, the raison d’être of the wigwam and “kitchen midden.” The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure A disorderly midden was always to be found in the near neighbourhood, with a number of draught dogs wandering about on it seeking something to eat. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II The Virgin Islands had been pretty well worked over by archaeologists, and most of the early Indian middens and mounds explored. The Wailing Octopus An examination showed that this was a second, nearer dumping-ground for all the garbage and refuse of the swarm which could not be thrown down on the kitchen middens far below. Edge of the Jungle A midden in the moat broke their fall; the officials fell soft, and got safely away. From a Terrace in Prague If they be the same, and if they should come on shore by the kitchen midden, then small hope of more boat-building, and, as is only too likely, small hope of life for the builders. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure Personally, however, it has often been a pleasure to me to leave my easel at four o'clock and prepare to meet my practical City patrons "on their own midden" at "5.30 for 6." The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 He was fronting us with the unspoken superiority of the fowl on its own midden, but he had a most heart-some and invigorating glow. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Many interesting implements have been dug from these mounds, or kitchen middens as they are sometimes called. The Western United States A Geographical Reader Dr. Munro tells us how a “large-worked stone,” a grotesque head, was foisted through a horizontal hole, into the relic bed of his kitchen midden at Elie. The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore Proof of its having been already garnered is seen in a heap of recently emptied shells lying under the trees near by—a little kitchen midden of itself. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure "What d'ye think o' a midden i' the very middle o' your toon?" My Man Sandy In the domed cellar of Baquerolle Farm—an old-fashioned building looking out across a wide midden to numerous cowsheds and outhouses—were usually the headquarters of C or D Companies and the Trench-Mortars. The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry In the farmyard the pigs were busy on the midden, and they looked at us with curious expressive eyes that peered roguishly out from under their heavy hanging cabbage-leaves of ears. The Red Horizon I’ve given my life to sheep, spent myself for them: And now, I’m not the value of a dead sheep To any farmer—a rackle of bones for the midden! Krindlesyke Doubtless some of them may have once lived in it, and eaten of the molluscs, the shells of which are piled upon the kitchen midden. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure There is an island in this bay where they make it out of their shell-fish middens—two kinds—purple and white. Days of the Discoverers Then comes the age of what older antiquaries used to regard as primitive antiquity—the age of the English barrows, of the Danish kitchen middens, of the Swiss lake dwellings. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science "Maybe yes and maybe no," said my mate, stumbling across the midden and floundering into the field on the other side. The Red Horizon Every trace of the slaughter was removed, and the refuse buried in the village midden, and pork was the principal article on the breakfast table that morning in Lowwood. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner Back of the trenches often lay great heaps of refuse like the kitchen middens of primeval man. The Hosts of the Air The body of a man named Thomas Bishop who had fallen in a midden in Oxford Street, was found Oct. Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically "He'll glower at the moon till he falls in the midden," said Matthew with a grunt of amused interest. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance Grettir said, "I saw within doors there a young man who pulled on his mittens, and another going betwixt byre and midden, and of neither of them should I be afeared." The Story of Grettir the Strong The second anecdote is a delightful illustration of Mrs. Hamilton's Cottagers of Glenburnie, and of the old-fashioned Scottish pride in the midden. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Such biographies give one the sense of a man diving in sewers, grubbing in middens, prying into cupboards, peeping round corners. The Silent Isle I found a group of numb men and shivering horses standing knee-deep in a midden, the men exchanging repartee with a furious female voice that shrilled at them from a dark window. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 22, 1919 The day may come when the most valuable service of the man of letters will be to unearth the lost treasures and display them, rather than add his grain of dust to the ever-increasing middens. Tracks of a Rolling Stone This street, which is still found in Clerkenwell, was of course named from one of the laystalls or public middens which were a feature of London when sanitation was in its infancy. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 What had Stratford to offer Shakespeare—village Stratford with a midden in the chief street and the charms of the village usurer's companionship tempered by the ministrations of a wandering tub-thumper? The Man Shakespeare In Ireland, children twist the stalk, and as it slowly untwists in the hand, thus address it:— "Curl-doddy on the midden, Turn round an' take my biddin'." The Folk-lore of Plants Some a little weaker, some with more bilge-water in it, or a trifle of a dash from the midden. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale By the curse of the sin of the sack of Chitor, is my palace, then, a midden for the crawling offal of all the Howrah streets? Rung Ho! Shut it up!"—"I shall shut it when I want, midden!"—"A seven-pound thump would shut it up quick enough!"—"Who from? Under Fire: the story of a squad Unwholesome sandflats waited to suck his treading soles, breathing upward sewage breath, a pocket of seaweed smouldered in seafire under a midden of man's ashes. Ulysses How is it to end if we go on at our present rate, with huge geological formations of art and book middens accreting in every city of Europe? Ex Voto For so say the police regulations of the wasps' nest: any stranger discovered must be slain and thrown on the midden. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Why you, booby, there is the shoot of your kitchen midden, twenty feet above the roof of old Fretis' store! The House of the Wolf; a romance This portion of one of the handsomest quarters of Paris will long retain the stain of foulness left by the hillocks formed of the middens of old Paris, on which mills formerly stood. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life From drains, clefts, cesspools, middens arise on all sides stagnant fumes. Ulysses |
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