What is "midland"

Usage examples of "midland".

Heinz, ITT Lockheed, Anheuser-Busch, the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Coca-Cola, Fiat, Revlon, Union Carbide, and the Midland Bank.

This journey would take him west across the great shallow basin of low bogland and pasture that formed the Midlands, and to the lip of the Shannon estuary, the place he always considered the most significant border on this little island.

Far from being someone whom Rosemary Letts had never met, as she would insist at her trial, Rena West had shared with her the caravan at Lake House, the room at Clarence Road in Cheltenham, and the flat at Midland Road from time to time.

He was soon given a command in the midland counties, and having seized Lichfield he was killed there on the 2nd of March 1643.

An old farmer in a midland county began with 20-inch drains across the hill, and, without ever reading a word, or, we believe, conversing with any one on the subject, poked his way, step by step, to four or five feet drains, in the line of steepest descent.

Your Fens are a back door into the East, or the Midlands or the North.

Two of his horses were certainly down to run, but Filmer himself almost never went to the midland courses of Nottingham, Leicester or Wolverhampton.

The man who sounded as though he was in charge was almost certainly the one who had been in her hospital room that night in Midland.

His father is a platelayer on the London and Great Midland Railway, and Whittaker is one of the Guinea-pig boys.

Such were the deeds by which Raffles Haw made himself known throughout the Midlands, and yet, in spite of all his open-handedness, he was not a man to be imposed upon.

There, riverways led inland from the coast to the Midlands, where the slave-trade flourished.

That was the technique that West had explained to Liz Agius in Midland Road, and which the Wests had then applied to Carol Raine.

The total number of Boers who were wandering over the eastern and midland districts may have been about two thousand, who were divided into bands which varied from fifty to three hundred.

Mother Confessors before me, let the Central Council decide for themselves what they wish, how they want the Midlands ruled.

With all the other Confessors now dead, the weight of defending the Midlands, those without power, was upon her shoulders.