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1. four or five young children, who, among the middling or inferior ranks of people in Europe, would have so little chance for a second husband, is there frequently courted as a sort of fortune
2. All people of small or middling fortunes would be obliged to superintend themselves the employment of their own stocks
3. A middling farmer will there sometimes have four hundred fowls in his yard
4. The houses, the furniture, the clothing of the rich, in a little time, become useful to the inferior and middling ranks of people
5. Were the duties upon foreign wines, and the excises upon malt, beer, and ale, to be taken away all at once, it might, in the same manner, occasion in Great Britain a pretty general and temporary drunkenness among the middling and inferior ranks of people, which would probably be soon followed by a permanent and almost universal sobriety
6. By this statute, the high duties upon importation for home consumption are taken off, so soon as the price of middling wheat rises to 48s
7. the quarter; that of middling rye, pease, or beans, to 32s
8. The first of those remedies is the study of science and philosophy, which the state might render almost universal among all people of middling or more than middling rank and fortune ; not by giving salaries to teachers in order to make them negligent and idle, but by instituting some sort of probation, even in the higher and more difficult sciences, to be undergone by every person before he was permitted to exercise any liberal profession, or before he could be received as a candidate for any honourable office, of trust or profit
9. The middling and superior ranks of people, if they understood their own interest, ought always to oppose all taxes upon the necessaries of life, as well as all taxes upon the wages of labour
10. The whole consumption of the inferior ranks of people, or of those below the middling rank, it must be observed, is, in every country, much greater, not only in quantity, but in value, than that of the middling, and of those above the middling rank
11. Fourthly and lastly, some part even of the rent of land belongs to the same rank ; a considerable part to those who are somewhat below the middling rank, and a small part even to the lowest rank ; common labourers sometimes possessing in property an acre or two of land
12. But in the country, many middling and almost all rich and great families, brew their own beer
13. By the union with England, the middling and inferior ranks of people in Scotland gained a complete deliverance from the power of an aristocracy, which had always before oppressed them
14. The woman was mortal and of middling years - plump faced with rounded curves, dark eyes, and a pinched nose that reminded him of a sparrow
15. Both are or were nominally liberal, but the most timid, middling, and cautious form of liberalism possible
16. Her skin is a middling color, darker than mine
17. First of all, because I had already graduated, and owing to the fact that I was barely at the median of our class GPA, therefore not affecting my first job, he made no attempt to disguise his disgust that I was wasting his time by bitching about my middling C in Labor Law
18. The coming of the middling years added a slight paunch, which denoted a peaceful and contented life
19. The middling one is that wherein Puraka is for 16 seconds, Kumbhaka for 64 seconds and Rechaka for 32 seconds
20. If anyone gives at the 1/50th level, they have a middling eye
21. The middling and right position is that the believer should approach towards only God through the companionship of the closer to Allah who are alive
22. excrement, the middling ones flesh and the fine ones the mind
23. Fair to middling, no more, no less
24. instructions on the stages of the path of a person of middling
25. teachings to those of middling scope, and very profound
26. hell being, middling non-virtuous actions are the main cause
27. middling negative karma causes rebirth as a hungry ghost and
28. Little did she realize that these were the effects of Shiva himself blurring the line between Sivaloka and this middling realm
29. There are three stages of feeling for God – the mild, the middling, and the intense; and it is only the intense feeling for God that finally succeeds, not the middling or the mild
30. The reader’s needs must be considered and demands that you begin your piece with a middling pace and
31. It is middling well as far as it goes--but is that all?
32. "And very thankful I am they are standing," she said, "for that means they'll turn middling time this week
33. The priest had a writing teacher at Rome make three alphabets—one large, one middling, and one small; and pointed out to him that by the help of a sharp instrument he could trace the letters on a slate, and thus learn to write
34. “It was considered a good match: his father was a knight of the middling sort, and mine a wealthy wool merchant
35. This one's a middling hard lot for a duke
36. There, now we're over the worst of it, you can stand the rest middling easy
37. It vaguely reminded me of the middling 1990s comedy Crazy People, in which Dudley Moore plays an ad exec who decides to start employing honesty in his taglines, coming up with such gems as “Volvos—Yes they are boxy, but they’re safe,” and “Jaguar—For men who’d like hand jobs from beautiful women they hardly know
38. But surely you will ask, what sort of Cock had he who invented more fanciful Names for that common Organ than Adam invented Names for Animals? ’Twas a middling Thing, neither larger nor smaller than the Majority of Cocks, and tolerably well-shap’d, but without the inflam’d Redness of which he so constantly writes in his foolish Memoirs
39. Thirdly, the Trade is patriotick in the Highest Sense, for as ’tis the Wish of ev’ry True-born Englishman to see his Country prosper both at Home and abroad, what could be more pleasing to the Patriotick Englishman than to view the great Advantages which have accru’d to our Nation thro’ the Bountiful Harvests of the Sugar Isles? Why, e’en the most middling sort of Londoner takes Sugar in his Tea, and buys printed Calicoes of Cotton for his Lady
40. But after sharing out the Gems—which were all of small or middling Size—he found himself down to the last Man on the List, with only one Emerald remaining, but that one being of prodigious Size
41. More tactically, stock markets in countries with especially high or low GDP growth rates over the preceding 5 years subsequently earned similar Sharpe ratios as markets in countries with middling past growth
42. November is middling, but buying the right shares in October and November can be a good move in the lead up to the Christmas buying spree …
43. Middling clothing, middling service (but a great business for traders, of course)
44. Being curious to know what position my great bubbles occupied with regard to the new ice, I broke out a cake containing a middling sized one, and turned it bottom upward
45. , middling quality, great quantity on hand, fit only for continental market, at 1½ a 4d
46. On adding to each the same quantity of the solution of gelatine, abundant precipitates immediately appeared, as usual, apparently much the same in quantity; but to my astonishment, the size of the several congeries in each, bore a near proportion to that of the sticks from which they were obtained, not differing much from that of middling and of very small flakes of snow