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  • I was giving the milk-girl the benefit of what was really my own entire being, ready to taste the keenest joys, which now confronted her.

    Within a Budding Grove 2003

  • This was a milk-girl who came from a farm with an additional supply of cream for the hotel.

    Within a Budding Grove 2003

  • Above the pale and misty daylight, the sky was all red, as at the same hour are the newly lighted fires in kitchens, and the sight of it filled me with hope and with a longing to pass the night in a train and awake at the little country station where I had seen the milk-girl with the rosy cheeks.

    The Sweet Cheat Gone 2003

  • I had no doubt that the letter was from the milk-girl.

    Within a Budding Grove 2003

  • Alas, it was only from Bergotte who, as he happened to be passing, had tried to see me, but on hearing that I was asleep had scribbled a few charming lines for which the lift-boy had addressed an envelope which I had supposed to have been written by the milk-girl.

    Within a Budding Grove 2003

  • Mrs. Bernard was delighted at the sight of the milk-girl, and much pleased with the consideration of the children in sending her.

    Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side Frances Bowyer Vaux

  • Then the first inhabitant appeared; it was the Burnells 'cat Florrie, sitting on the gatepost, far too early as usual, looking for their milk-girl.

    The Garden Party, and Other Stories 1922

  • And now they had passed the fisherman's hut, passed the charred-looking little whare where Leila the milk-girl lived with her old Gran.

    The Garden Party, and Other Stories 1922

  • She once more saw Marguerite in her milk-girl costume, with her can hanging from her waist; and Sophie, dressed as a waiting-maid, and revolving on the arm of her sister Blanche, whose trappings as Folly gave out a merry tinkle of bells.

    A Love Episode ��mile Zola 1871

  • -- "Ay, truly, could she; for the milk-girl, who had brought her some fresh milk, told her that he had got plenty of wild fowl, which the keeper had snared in the net; and there was to be a sweetbread besides.

    Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 Wilhelm Meinhold 1824

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