midge's

In the midge's amplified view, Pham had no trouble identifying Greenstalk; she was standing at one end of a line of five Riders, her hull stripes clearly visible.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

"'The mother of mischief,'" I quoted, "'is no bigger than a midge's wing,' and the grandmother is the match-making microbe that lurks in every woman's system."

Simon the Jester William John Locke 1896

The mother of mischief is no bigger than a midge's wing.

Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power Orison Swett Marden 1887

All were to me in value less than a midge's wing, Except mine eyes still rested upon that face of thine. '

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879

All were to me in value less than a midge's wing, If that mine eyes must never look on that face of thine!

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879

A midge's life is as long as a man's, for it has time to learn its business, and do all the harm it can, and fight, and make love, and marry, and reproduce its kind, and grow disenchanted and bored and sick and content to die -- all in a summer afternoon.

Peter Ibbetson George Du Maurier 1865

-- 'The mother of mischief is no bigger than a midge's wing!'

Say and Seal, Volume II Susan Warner 1852

The midge's prompt action had perhaps disappointed several other people.

Say and Seal, Volume II Susan Warner 1852

The superannuated old magistrate sets out with a proverb, as for instance this, that _the mother of mischief is no bigger than a midge's wing_.

The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

In his minor proposition he goes on to argue that the trespass charged upon the particular prisoner before him was very little bigger than a midge's wing.

The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822