All our stories are of the middles of things,-without beginning or end; we scientists are plunged suddenly upon a cosmos in the full uproar of eons of precedent, unable to look ahead, while to look backward we must look down.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe
As usual, there were many rivers to be forded, through which our ponies plodded up to their middles, never flinching even at the coldest glacial water.
"A Girl's Ride in Iceland"
Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie
"We won't have any middles," said Ruth.
"We Girls: A Home Story"
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney