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Examples
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“I wish you joy of the milk-blooded coward, Cathy!” said her friend.
Wuthering Heights 2002
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The fumes cleared sufficiently from Buck Heath's mind to allow him to remember that Jasper Lanning's boy was no other than the milk-blooded
Way of the Lawless Max Brand 1918
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The sooner we give up all this milk-blooded, blue-spectacled, pacificist talk the better.
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907
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"I wish you joy of the milk-blooded coward, Cathy!" said her friend.
Wuthering Heights 1847
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'I wish you joy of the milk-blooded coward, Cathy!' said her friend.
Wuthering Heights Emily Bront�� 1833
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"Ah, lily-livered rogue!" shouted he out to me, "milk-blooded unbeliever! pale-faced miscreant! lives he after insulting thy master in thy presence!
Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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