Meden

The Meden is a beautiful and melancholy stream, at whose side an exile from the hill country might sit down and weep.

The Dukeries Murray Gilchrist 1892

Parting from thence, they sailed away with a tramontane or northerly wind, passing by Meden, by Uti, by Uden, by Gelasim, by the Isles of the

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Parting from thence, they sailed away with a tramontane or northerly wind, passing by Meden, by Uti, by Uden, by Gelasim, by the Isles of the Fairies, and alongst the kingdom of Achorie, till at last they arrived at the port of Utopia, distant from the city of the Amaurots three leagues and somewhat more.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

The stuccoed houses are perhaps devoid of picturesqueness, but the shallow Meden, which runs quietly beside the roadway, is crystal-clear, and from the wilderness on the farther bank one often sees pert black water hens slip gently from the shelter of the long grass, and glide to and fro like tiny boats.

The Dukeries Murray Gilchrist 1892

For instance, _Meden agan_ -- nothing in excess -- is a maxim not to be neglected, but still not entitled to the exclusive homage which is implied in its present acceptation.

Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822