And when he recovered his breath, patted her on the head and said, mockingly: "You will forgive me, and thank Odalite, when you discover that we have got married on purpose to leave the gallant young middy to you, so that you shall not be an old maid."
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth
A rare girl, she, to look upon-deep-bosomed and erect, dressed simply in a middy-blouse with a blue tie, a khaki skirt and low, rubber-soled shoes revealing a silk-stockinged ankle that would have attracted the enthusiastic attention of gentlemen in any city of the world.
"The Air Trust"
George Allan England
I'm getting tired Of being perched aloft here in this cro' nest Like the first mate of a whaler, or a middy Mast-headed, looking out for land!
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow