Auld bandrons by the ingle sits, An' wi' her loof her face a-washin'; But Willie's wife is nae sae trig She dights her grunzie wi' a hushion; Her walie nieves like midden-creels, Her face wad 'fyle the Logan Water; Sic a wife as Willie had, I wadna gie a button for her.
"In the Border Country"
W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett
I've struck across open fields, only to tumble against troughs, midden heaps, pig-styes.
"Major Vigoureux"
A. T. Quiller-Couch
Scotty added, "And what's a midden, anyway?"
"The Wailing Octopus"
Harold Leland Goodwin