Lexicographical Neighbors of Milksoppy
Literary usage of Milksoppy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1907)
"There—before me—alone in her glory—apart From that milksoppy, maudlin, contemptible
throng. Sat the being I'd yearned for and burned for so long! ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1870)
"... which, given out verse by verse, was sung to a familiar tune with a fulness
of parts which would have put the milksoppy unison of our church hymn ..."
3. Coaching Days and Coaching Ways by William Outram Tristam (1906)
"... milksoppy to the verge of nausea even for one of Scott's heroes, brings Wayland
Smith to cure Sussex of Leicester's broth ; it is to Sayes Court ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1888)
"It is here that Blount and Raleigh first appear in the pages of perhaps the finest
historical novel in the world ; it is here that Tresilian, milksoppy to ..."
5. Half Hours of English History: From the Roman Period to the Death of by Charles Knight (1865)
"Prince ! my service to ye— milksoppy weather—weather only fit For painted boats ;
weather, where little maids Some fifteen years or so, might stretch a helm ..."
6. Half Hours of English History: From the Roman Period to the Death of Elizabeth (1866)
"Prince ! my service to ye— milksoppy weather—weather only fit For painted boats ;
weather, where little maids Some fifteen years or so, might stretch a helm ..."
7. Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View by Price Collier (1913)
"What spurious and milksoppy puppets we should be if it were not so. So long as
there are praters going about insisting that Germany, with a flaxen pig-tail ..."
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