Molecular analysis of a 11,700 year-old rodent midden from the Atacama Desert, Chile. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
Packrats in Utah's Great Basin built and live in this "midden" beneath a juniper tree, their major if slightly toxic food source. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
One does not return to the midden one was flung in. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
They reminded him of rats seen near midden heaps by night. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Magic]
They happened to fall soft, on a midden, and got away unhurt. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
We were about to walk home, when I looked back at the midden. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
"What d'ye think o 'a midden i' the very middle o 'your toon?". From Wordnik.com. [My Man Sandy] Reference
One corner of this midden is bricked off to form a drainage pit. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
Intact midden deposits were indeed present under the recent debris. From Wordnik.com. [American Scene: Much Ado About a Circle] Reference
Excavation closer to Hemings 'house revealed a small artifact midden. From Wordnik.com. [Matriarch of Mulberry Row] Reference
The seventeenth century balladists pitchforked Nature into the midden. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series] Reference
The Granada midden no longer exists, the victim of hotel construction. From Wordnik.com. [American Scene: Much Ado About a Circle] Reference
They dug a midden and laid a ridge of dirt from the midden to the wagon. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
It seemed to be a sort of midden, and the blood began to pulse in his ears. From Wordnik.com. [Starchild Omnibus]
Allies of long standing, yet the times bred suspicion like flies on a midden. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Daggers]
At the furthest reach of their chain was the midden-heap, stinking of ordure. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
What she would not do was throw everything on the midden heap in a fit of pique. From Wordnik.com. [A Crown of Swords]
Exposed to the air, the juice of the spiceberries stank like an untended midden. From Wordnik.com. [Conan and The Gods of The Mountain]
A midden in the moat broke their fall; the officials fell soft, and got safely away. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
A number have been dug, including the Grenada midden across the river from the circle. From Wordnik.com. [American Scene: Much Ado About a Circle] Reference
In that torrent, the taint was all the midden heaps in the world emptying into his soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Daggers]
Some a little weaker, some with more bilge-water in it, or a trifle of a dash from the midden. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anerley] Reference
As we flung the bodies on the midden, I said laughing, "That's where I nearly went, I daresay.". From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
Yuri would toss the keepsakes into the midden and use the painted box to hold his fishing weights. From Wordnik.com. [The Goblin Mirror]
A gull, seeking the pickings of the kitchen-midden, floated across from the wide free waters of the lagoon. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
Boys were put to work sweeping the streets, pulling weeds, and covering the worst of the midden-heaps with sand. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
During the day, when he laid stone upon stone, or dug a new cooking pit, midden, or grave, he thought of the dreams. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
He walked out to the midden pit, attended to his business, then, not being ready to return to the feast, climbed to the wall walk. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
He was fronting us with the unspoken superiority of the fowl on its own midden, but he had a most heart-some and invigorating glow. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Scientific analysis of the midden shows that the area received far more precipitation 20,000 years ago, and slowly became more arid. From Wordnik.com. [Proclamation On Sonoran Desert Nationalmonument] Reference
The Fresh Kills landfill is an archaeological site of massive proportions and import, a midden of our time, of modern New York's time. From Wordnik.com. [Museums: The Truth is in Our Trash] Reference
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