They did Stade, however, no injury beside shaving off his eyebrows, though the younger savages, when hungry, often looked wistfully at him and rubbed their midriffs.
"The Life of Sir Richard Burton"
Thomas Wright
In the meantime our own Special Artist was busy on a new and noble scheme of decoration, and two or three of us up to our midriffs in the first thousand books.
"Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front"
E. W. Hornung