"Midden" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... no one knows. Every hamlet throughout Shetland is called a toun. The cottages composing them are very far from attractive-looking edifices, generally built of mud, of one storey, and thatched; with a midden on one side of the door, and a pool of a very doubtful colour and contents on the other. The insides were often large and clean, and tidy enough, and in such I found many of my ...
— Will Weatherhelm - The Yarn of an Old Sailor • W.H.G. Kingston
... work; yet they made up in enthusiasm what they lacked in science, and by five o'clock the pig was cut up and distributed through a score of homes. Every trace of the slaughter was removed, and the refuse buried in the village midden, and pork was the principal article on the breakfast table that morning ...
— The Underworld - The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner • James C. Welsh
... them too. Sir Banas, he comes in the night and makes them all alive at the back of our kitchen-midden,' piped the child. ...
— Kim • Rudyard Kipling
... it has often been a pleasure to me to leave my easel at four o'clock and prepare to meet my practical City patrons "on their own midden" at "5.30 for 6." ...
— The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) • Harry Furniss
... attest. At that period of the year it was exceedingly malodorous, and in the gutters tangle-headed children fished for spoil, or with noise and clangour dragged the damaged dead cat and the too-long-drowned puppy from the green ooze of one midden hole ...
— Patsy • S. R. Crockett
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