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Examples
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They are occupied in the building of a condensed-milk factory.
Work Camp 415 GW 2010
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From the streetsJane Cooper "Go to the Sutor Creek for wood-fired pizza and fantastic condensed-milk crème brûlée."
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A condensed-milk plant was set afire — each side charged it to the other — and the city was hysterical.
Babbit 2004
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A munitions factory in the basement where explosives were devised: grenades of condensed-milk cans, bombs stuffed in cocoa-tins.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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A munitions factory in the basement where explosives were devised: grenades of condensed-milk cans, bombs stuffed in cocoa-tins.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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But Mr. Yellett continued to splutter and flare and use violent language, whereupon the matriarch went into the tent and returned with a drink of condensed-milk and water, "to wash down the nasty taste," she told him, soothingly.
Judith of the Plains Marie Manning
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Then came a hand printing-press, on which were spread the remains of some comrade's repast: the vertebral column of a bloater and an empty condensed-milk can, among other relics.
A Girl Among the Anarchists Isabel Meredith
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Save up tomato-cans, cracker-boxes, condensed-milk cans, etc. The cracker-boxes are just as good as sheet-tin, as the pieces are large and clean.
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The agricultural exhibit comprised an extensive collection of samples of different varieties of pease and beans; a large exhibit of seeds; an exhibit of grains in stalk, tastefully arranged; an exhibit of grains and corn; also a cabinet of pickled goods; a large exhibit of salt; condensed-milk products; a complete exhibit in season of vegetables from different counties of Michigan.
Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
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And when she left of mornings with her breakfast crumblessly cleared up and the box of biscuit and condensed-milk can tucked unsuspectedly behind her camisole in the top drawer there was no one to regret her.
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