Moose's girlfriend, in Archie comics

Usage examples of midge.

The maltsters would not pay as much for it as for spring barley, and as the midge troubles us less, our farmers are raising winter wheat again.

Midge Prentice woke under her mosquito net and breathed the familiar smells of a hot Indian night.

Midge Prentice, white face a mask of terror, her bunched nightie gripped convulsively in a small hot hand.

From nowhere Pakie Scally appeared and stood behind them swishing off midges.

The mosquitoes and biting midges rose in black clouds from the mud holes and swarmed around their sweating faces, crawling into their ears and nostrils.

Stephanie Smith, Darian Causby and Midge McCall, and all the other people at HarperCollins who I have never met but who have contributed to this series, along with Lyn Tranter and Cathy Perkins at Australian Literary Management and also Sarah Endacott.

Wizened and white, with brown blotches on her face the size and complexity of unshelled peanuts, Midge had a jitter in her head that made her bob in her pew like a chicken trying to make up its mind what to peck.

He knew of large animals of the deep forest being driven mad by blackflies and midges, and now he understood how such an event could occur.

Frogs loved Mirrinor, and blink-fast dragonflies in resplendent livery, and small midges and gnats and shy green water-snakes and Culicidae and strange, strange things that lived underwater and sneaked around its margins.

Occasional thoughts of Jamie and Lionel Brown drifted through the back of my mind, but I shooed them away like the leafhoppers and midges who landed on my page, drifting in through the window.

While the capsules still floated high above the ground, small openings ejected newly revived impregnated queens of the honeybee, the Asian carpenter bee, and the bumblebee, as well as fireflies, caddis flies, nonbiting midges, cockroaches, and lac bugs.

Netok walked along the sandy bank of the river, surrounded by a cloud of midges that seemed to grow larger and thicker with every stride.

What had drawn the midges this time was the rank upon rank of unprotected Malazan soldiers.

Nesting on the snow-clumps of the halo, or sometimes in flight between them, these were tiny creatures, strangely slow in flight and harmless as the idiot midges in the ballads of her hunter prince.

No braggart gnat could ever match their warrior fury, but perhaps these lazy midges would be cunning enough to furnish sport for her hunter princes.