Citations:mid

English citations of mid

preposition: "with"

• 1838, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker: Or the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, pages 308-309:

  I always travel with my leetle gimblet; take it mid me wherever I go; and when I goes to ped, I takes my leetle gimblet out and bores wid it over de latch of de toor, and dat fastens it,

  I left it to home dat time mid de old vrou, and it was all because I had no gimblet, de row and te noise and te rumpush wash made. Tam it! said he, Mr. Slick, 'tis no use talkin', but tereis always de teyvil to pay when there is a woman and no gimblet.

• 1841, Matthew Henry Barker, Robert Cruikshank, Jem Bunt. By the Old Sailor , page page 291:

  "You only make mishtake mid de coshtom housh—dat's all."

• 1892, Thaddeus William Henry Leavitt, The Witch of Plum Hollow, page 186:

  vas going along mid de school house, who vas de superintendent of dot bridge. I build a great big stone butment on von side, und a great big stone one on de ouder side, und build de approages away back level mid de town, und I baints zu bridge red. Dot vas de only ting dat did stay mid de down .

• 1896, A. T. Houmesayud of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Editor Railway Conductor, in The Railway Conductor , volume 13, page 325:

  makes dot Sound vot sayes Garum, we was have all dem feller in what was Eligible to be mid us. Pisness was getind on Splendid mid us. we was making good time ade presant,

• 1909, Addison Monroe Powell, Trailing and Camping in Alaska, page 47:

  You gif me dot forty tollars und I go home, und you go on down de riffer mit a poat dot haf two ends. I come down here und git in my poat mid two ends, und I goes aroundt depend, und I strike the rock, too, und bust vide open, shust like de otter fellers.

preposition: probably "amid"

• 1895, Ole Virginny Reel, in Idle Moments, Containing Emancipation and Other Poems by D. Webster Davis, page 40:

  Ez I set to-night I'm thinkin' uh de days now pas' an' gone,

  Way down in Ole Virginny mid de corn;

  Whar de sweet pertators bloomin' an' de water-million smiles,

• 1908, Charles Arthur Kelly, Lays of Hellas, page 12:

  For Theseus, giant-thew'd, they say, / And horn'd erratic Pan, / And Pallas' self, exceeding all, / Were mid us in the van.