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  • I came, this good man took me into the house, and put me into one of the beds out of which his sons had just got; and, if I was cold before, you may be sure I was warm and comfortable now! such a bed as this I had never slept in, nor ever did I have such good milk-soup as he gave me out of his own breakfast.

    The Paris Sketch Book 2006

  • At the time appointed for departure, when they had partaken of milk-soup, seasoned with a strong dose of pepper to stimulate the appetite—for the wedding feast gave promise of great bounty—the guests assembled in the farmyard.

    Appendix. III. The Wedding 1917

  • All other forms of preparation, milk-soup, omelettes, and so forth, do, to be sure, make of milk and eggs an excellent food, more to be recommended than others; but they take away the specific properties of assimilation which characterise them.

    The Montessori Method Anne E. Montessori George 1912

  • It was only as he was finishing the milk-soup that Laptev realised how very inappropriate it was for him to be dining there.

    The Darling and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

  • For dinner they had milk-soup, cold veal, and chocolate.

    The Darling and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

  • The Marie Joseph, driven by a furious gale lost her bearings completely in the night, and steering by chance over a heavy foaming sea -- 'a milk-soup sea, 'said the captain -- had gone ashore on those immense sand banks which make the coasts of this country look like limitless Saharas when the tide is low.

    Original Short Stories — Volume 04 Guy de Maupassant 1871

  • The Marie Joseph, driven by a furious gale lost her bearings completely in the night, and steering by chance over a heavy foaming sea -- 'a milk-soup sea, 'said the captain -- had gone ashore on those immense sand banks which make the coasts of this country look like limitless Saharas when the tide is low.

    Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant Guy de Maupassant 1871

  • All then returned to the garden, where a feast of milk-soup with eggs and egg-cakes had been prepared.

    St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, V. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated Various 1868

  • At the appointed time, after a breakfast of milk-soup, well peppered to stimulate the appetite -- for the nuptial-feast promised to be a rich one -- all assembled in the farmyard.

    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852 Various 1841

  • At the time appointed for departure, when they had partaken of milk-soup, seasoned with a strong dose of pepper to stimulate the appetite, -- for the wedding-feast gave promise of great bounty, -- the guests assembled in the farm-yard.

    La mare au diable. English George Sand 1840

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