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It was one of those strange syndromes that helped reinforce the impression that the Domenech touch was the precise opposite of Midas's.

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Midas has been identified with Mita ("Seed"), a king of the Moschians or "calf-men," who invaded the country of the Hittites from Thrace during the second millenium B.C. Midas's Golden Touch and ass's ears link him with the cult of Set and the Golden Calf (Horus), whose image was worshipped by the Israelites (Exodus 32:2-4).

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Before that, Mr. Phillips was chief executive officer of iimia MitonOptimal, and Mr. Edwards was Midas's CEO.

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But if any one should ask, whether freedom were free, he would be suspected not to understand well what he said; and he would be thought to deserve Midas's ears, who, knowing that rich was a denomination for the possession of riches, should demand whether riches themselves were rich.

God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005

Then too, the talk about Midas's spectacles and about his trotting his grandchildren on his knee is but a little pleasant fooling on the part of Hawthorne, for spectacles were not even thought of for centuries after the time of old King Midas, and it is much more than unlikely that any old Greek ever trotted children on his knee.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester

For instance, as he says, the old myth told nothing about any daughter of Midas's, and yet I think we are all ready to admit that we should not love the story half so well without dear little Marygold.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester

His life is shorter than the life of Midas, but Midas's life is only a sixth as long as that of the Galapagos tortoise.

The Turmoil 1915

He suggested my purchase of a quantity of Mr. Watts's oil stock when it was knocked flat on its back by two wells turning out dry; but if Mr. Watts's third well comes in, and young Fisbee has convinced me that it will, and if my Midas's extra booms the stock and the boom develops, I shall oppose the income tax.

The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington 1907

And now the gold came traveling down from the desert to the water, turning it surely to a wine like the wine of gold that flowed down Midas's throat; then, as the magic grew, to a

The Spell of Egypt Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

It amused him to be buying three pounds of potatoes and a pound of chopped meat and a package of macaroni, and to be counting Hunt's pennies -- remembering those days when he had been a personage to head waiters, and had had his table reserved, and with a careless Midas's gesture had left a dollar, or five, or twenty, for the waiter's tip.

Children of the Whirlwind Leroy Scott 1902