meed
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His often hilarious struggles are related by Big’s little brother, Meed — short for “Medium Big” — with a marvelously rough-hewn quality that is perfectly captured through the halting grandiloquence of Feodor Chin’s inspired narration.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 8, 2021
“Let us have tenderness but also a dash of cussedness and tragedy,” Meed promises early on.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2020
Big Son comes straight from tall-tale central casting, possessing “shoulders wide as ox yokes,” according to the narrator, his brother Medium Son, or Meed.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2020
Personifications like Meed, Envy, Glutton, Wit, and Conscience roam the medieval English countryside alongside everyday people.
From Slate • Dec. 26, 2018
He warned the others, so that they all fled away save Meed the maiden.
From English Literature for Boys and Girls by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)
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