middy's

I give you my word that I lost my bearings more completely than ever since I strapped a middy's dirk to my belt.

Beyond the City Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1982

Several persons witnessed the accident, and the prodigious splash the middy's body made in striking the water immediately made known to every one else that a struggle for life had commenced.

Adventures in Many Lands Various

The topsail was stowed snugly enough, so, my friend the middy's missive was set-off to his chaff at my expense.

Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene

"All right!" shouted the other with a laugh, scuttling down, and hammering at the first mate's cabin-door, so loudly that Tom could hear him plainly above, and also Mr Tompkins 'deeply growled oaths in response to the summons, after it was repeated once more with all the strength of the middy's fists beating a tattoo.

Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

Just at that moment, however, the middy's faint hail rang again clearly out above the noise of the wind and the sea, to assure him he was still above the surface, and restore his drooping energies.

Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

A middy's life was no child's play in those days, was it?

Adventures in Many Lands Various

It is related that the young middy's luggage was actually on board a

Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers 1917

The difficulty was to provide Marguerite with a pair of shoes, and great was the little middy's joy when my lady found that she could put foot on

The Scarlet Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

The difficulty was to provide Marguerite with a pair of shoes, and great was the little middy's joy when my lady found that she could put foot on English shore in his best pair.

The Scarlet Pimpernel 1905

Even the cock-pit, filled with the wounded, and reeking with blood that dripped through the cracks in the deck above, once resounded with laughter as hearty as ever greeted a middy's after-dinner joke in the steerage.

The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898