midling

We are tolerably well, though Charlotte is beginning to cut her teeth (at 15 months old) and is but midling.

Letter 90 2009

Invited to Constables, to Bristoe's, &c but they will both be dish'd, — for two nights I have slept pretty well, and am midling, but the three preceeding days were too much for mind and body.

Letter 273 2009

We have a good House, a midling Garden, and a rich country on all sides every charm of spring surrounds us, and I am better in health, and my Daughter Mary who was drooping into a dangerous imbicility is gaining strength. we are all well besides, and convinced that the change is for the best.

Letter 276 2009

My own health very midling amongst the rest My Wife and the 3 elder

Letter 103 2009

Your Mother is midling, and Mary is chearful and willing.

Letter 242 2009

They are all midling. your mother is but midling indeed with her headaches, Charles is in high spirits. his knee is now heal'd and we think of bathing him in a day or two.

Letter 173 2009

Your mother is midling, and is quite pleas'd with Mary's Letter. and yours is quite to the point.

Letter 174 2009

Mary and Charlotte are in high spirits, your Father midling.

Letter 171 2009

Hillary is a midling journeyman pol and she has just been outclassed by him.

Obama Fundraising Email: Hillary And McCain Using "The Very Same Words" To Attack Me 2009

If Gonzalez were in theoretical physics or mathematics, he could still go on to make a name for himself, as he could do them anywhere a Swiss patent clerk did just that, and not without some midling success.

Iowa State University President Gregory Geoffroy: Denied! - The Panda's Thumb 2007