middling

• As you descend in the scale, so are they the more noisy; and, I imagine, for that very reason the less sincere Among what may be termed the middling classes, I have been very much amused with the compound of vanity and ignorance which I have met with. —  Diary in America, Series Two
• On the other hand there was no unusual battle-noise of spiritual combat such as may have quickened the pulses of one or two of the boats the year of the English Mission We were middling, and dull at that, on the "Sluys Castle," till we reached Madeira. —  Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales
• As early as 1640 three hundred thousand dried codfish were sent to market from New England Codfish consisted of three sorts, "marchantable, middling, and refuse." —  Home Life in Colonial Days
• He is middling, and very strong, like the bear; very active and supple, like the seal or the white fox; and very swift, like the deer--and very different from other angekoks He must be a fine man," said the sailor, becoming interested in this angekok; "tell me wherein he differs from others He is not only strong and wise, but he is good; and he cares nothing for our customs, or for the ways of other angekoks. —  Red Rooney The Last of the Crew
• To convert old hock into brown stout_, it will take three pounds of essentia bina of middling or ordinary kind, and but two pounds of the best made from Muscovado raw sugar as directed, it should weigh ten pounds to the gallon. —  The American Practical Brewer and Tanner

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