milky

• It is characteristic of his method of dealing with traditional remedies, even though of long standing, that he brushes them aside with some impatience if they have not proved themselves in his experience The ancients mention many medicaments, which draw out the teeth without iron instruments or which make them more easy to draw out; such as the milky juice of the tithymal with pyrethrum, the roots of the mulberry and caper, citrine arsenic, aqua fortis, the fat of forest frogs. —  Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages
• A dazzling procession of stars floated before his eyes as though he were plunged into the very heart of the milky-way--flashed and faded into velvet black insensibility From behind heralded by a beam of light and the squawk of a horn, came a crash as the Ford Car hit the tar barrel end on. —  Men of Affairs
• The Princess kissed them, and cried over them, and tore pieces of her silky-milky gown to tie them up with, and the two went back to the tower and told the nurse all about everything. —  The Book of Dragons
• Suddenly it was penetrated by a milky-white glimmer, a glimmer duplicated at equidistant points, each fading as its successor sprang into brilliance. —  The Phantoms Of The Foot-Bridge 1895
• As the swelling increases, extending up toward the hock or knees, the hairs stand erect, and are bedewed by moisture no longer clear and odorless, but grayish, milky, and fetid. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

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