85 examples of midas in sentences

He sate like Lord Midas among them.

I dare not trust these secrets to the earth, E'er since she brought forth reeds, whose babbling noise Told all the world of Midas' ass's ears.

Without redress, complains my careless verse, And Midas ears relent not at my moan!

Though Mrs. Midas shows a righteous zeal In preaching self-control at every meal, She never in her stately home forgets To cater freely for her precious pets.

By this time Harrison Cressy had begun to show the authentic Midas touch.

The Greeks enshrined it in the story of Midas, of the 'Golden Touch.'

" Unfortunately, however, Midas could fail; he did.

We must not have King Midas represented as an example of success; he was a failure of an unusually painful kind.

It was his barber (if I remember right) who had to be treated on a confidential footing with regard to this peculiarity; and his barber, instead of behaving like a go-ahead person of the Succeed-at-all-costs school and trying to blackmail King Midas, went away and whispered this splendid piece of society scandal to the reeds, who enjoyed it enormously.

If a journalist has to describe a great politician or financier (the things are substantially the same) entering a room or walking down a thoroughfare, he always says, "Mr. Midas was quietly dressed in a black frock coat, a white waistcoat, and light grey trousers, with a plain green tie and simple flower in his button-hole."

Midas the king, as in his book appears, By Phoebus was endow'd with ass's ears, Which under his long locks he well conceal'd, (As monarchs' vices must not be reveal'd)

This Midas knew; and durst communicate To none but to his wife his ears of state: One must be trusted, and he thought her fit, As passing prudent, and a parlous wit.

Cowed deities, Like mice in cheese, To stir must cease Or gnaw.' O'HARA:Midas, Act i, Sc. 1."Everett's Versification, p. 99

Lonely Midas; the story of Stephen Girard.

Would you have me married to that king Midas's face? Trice.

Midas me no Midas; he's a wit; he understands eating and drinking well: Poeta coquus, the heathen philosopher could tell you that.

Midas me no Midas; he's a wit; he understands eating and drinking well: Poeta coquus, the heathen philosopher could tell you that.

By Pan, and by the strife He had with Phoebus for the Mastery, When Golden Midas judg'd their Minstrelcy, I will not.

Love, like Midas, transforms every thing it touches into gold, and, alas! often perishes, like Midas, for want of finding some material nourishment.

Love, like Midas, transforms every thing it touches into gold, and, alas! often perishes, like Midas, for want of finding some material nourishment.

Early and late Washington preached to his overseers the value of fertilization; in one case, when looking for a new overseer, he said the man must be, "above all, Midas like, one who can convert everything he touches into manure, as the first transmutation towards gold;in a word one who can bring worn out and gullied Lands into good tilth in the shortest time."

FIRST-CLASS PASSENGERS:SIR GORGIUS MIDAS, LADY MIDAS, AND GORGIUS MIDAS, ESQ., JUNR.

FIRST-CLASS PASSENGERS:SIR GORGIUS MIDAS, LADY MIDAS, AND GORGIUS MIDAS, ESQ., JUNR.

FIRST-CLASS PASSENGERS:SIR GORGIUS MIDAS, LADY MIDAS, AND GORGIUS MIDAS, ESQ., JUNR.

SECOND-CLASS DITTO:BUTLERS, FOOTMEN, GROOMS, MAIDS, &C, OF THE HOUSE OF MIDAS.

85 examples of  midas  in sentences