“Jim was a midget. He had a small body and tiny feet and hands, but his head was of normal size for a man of thirty-two years.”

“I would leave right now if I weren't leaving this place in the hands of a crook and your son, the mental midget.”

“It seems that any mental midget can earn a college degree in something today.”

“Bloodworms are the larvae of a non-biting mosquito called a midge and are usually harmless to humans.”

“More recently, the gall midge has moved into the Houston area and become a cause of bud drop.”

“The midge is an ephemeral 2-3 mm insect whose larva induces a gall on young unfurled S. viminalis leaves.”

“I felt like one of those midgets trapped in the weather house we had as a kid.”

“I am not sulled up, despite my history of persecution, injustice, and the suppression of my oeuvre by midgets and dwarves.”

“Usually there is a boat full of tall men being coxed by a dwarf, but we've got a boat of midgets coxed by a six footer.”

“When the midges are at their most aggressive, their attacks are worse than any snow or rain.”

“On such an evening the local bat population takes wing, hundreds of them, feeding on the rising midges.”

“The irritating midges plague outdoor workers at the home of Britain's nuclear deterrent on Gareloch all year round.”