milk-maid

Starting at once from her dream of marriages and intermarriages, mills, mill-lands, and baronies, Dame Elspeth felt for a moment like the milk-maid in the fable, when she overset the pitcher, on the contents of which so many golden dreams were founded.

The Monastery 2008

You are a young lady walking into a roomful of eager suitors, not a milk-maid striding into a barn.

Before Midnight Cameron Dokey 2007

I have been practising, will make me but ill company for my milk-maid companions that are to be.

Pamela 2006

The land was ploughed, the slender blades of wheat broke through the dark soil, the fruit trees were covered with buds, the husbandman was abroad in the fields, the milk-maid tripped home with well-filled pails, the swallows and martins struck the sunny pools with their long, pointed wings, the new dropped lambs reposed on the young grass, the tender growth of leaves —

The Last Man 2003

They soon left the sheep behind them, and entered a large field with a river running through it, where a number of beautiful grey cows were standing by a gate waiting for a milk-maid to come and milk them.

The Brown Fairy Book 2003

No blithe-hearted milk-maid now cheers at the gloaming

I Mourn for the Highlands 1997

Then the pudding, with all its Johnsonian associations of "the golden grain drinking the dews of the morning -- milk pressed by the gentle hand of the beauteous milk-maid -- egg, that miracle of nature, which Burnett has compared to creation -- and salt, the image of intellectual excellence, which contributes to the foundation of a pudding."

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 348, December 27, 1828 Various

The milk-maid set down her pail of milk, and went to the orchard.

The Nursery, September 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 3 Various

By and by the milk-maid comes out, and calls, "Co-boss, co-boss!"

The Nursery, May 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People Various

Before they had proceeded far, they met a rosy milk-maid, singing with her pail upon her head.

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