They lingered long over their cups, Master Middle emptying one after another while the stranger expounded at great length on the best plans for coming at and capturing Robin Hood.
Thus was Master Middle left in the lurch "for the great shot to pay."
Robin Hood
His calculation of the membership of these divisions by occupation, from the United States Census of 1900, is as follows: Plutocratic class, 250,251; Middle class, 8,429,845; and Proletariat class, 20,393,137.
"From your own figures, we of the middle class are more powerful than labor," Mr.
The Iron Heel
Then they all looked at the river and saw the Scarecrow perched upon his pole in the
middle of the water, looking very lonely and sad.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
This development has, in its time, reacted on the extension of industry; and in proportion as industry, commerce, navigation, railways extended, in the same proportion the bourgeoisie developed, increased its capital, and pushed into the background every class handed down from the Middle Ages.
The bourgeoisie has disclosed how it came to pass that the brutal display of vigour in the Middle Ages, which Reactionists so much admire, found its fitting complement in the most slothful indolence.
Communist Manifesto
It was a double house, and the big open place be- twixt them was roofed and floored, and sometimes the table was set there in the
middle of the day, and it was a cool, comfortable place.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"Gentlemen," said Jacquotte, who came into the middle of the room, and there took her stand, with her hands on her hips, "the soup is on the table."
The priesthood, also, which sprang from the middle classes, resisted material forces and stood between the people and their enemies.
The Country Doctor
In the
middle of the night, and under all the rest of our distresses, one of the men that had been down to see cried out we had sprung a leak; another said there was four feet water in the hold.
Robinson Crusoe
As the weather grew warmer it was not sensibly worn away by the water, nor broken up and floated off as in rivers, but, though it was completely melted for half a rod in width about the shore, the middle was merely honeycombed and saturated with water, so that you could put your foot through it when six inches thick; but by the next day evening, perhaps, after a warm rain followed by fog, it would have wholly disappeared, all gone off with the fog, spirited away.
In the morning I watched the geese from the door through the mist, sailing in the middle of the pond, fifty rods off, so large and tumultuous that Walden appeared like an artificial pond for their amusement.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Nothing followed for a time, but the remark had set us all on the alert, straining ears and eyes--the musketeers with their pieces balanced in their hands, the captain out in the middle of the block house with his mouth very tight and a frown on his face.
The head of Job Anderson, the boatswain, appeared at the middle loophole.
Treasure Island