How To Use milk-white In A Sentence
- See Citherera's biids, that milk-white pair On yonder leavy myrtle tree which groan. The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical
- These two babes had between them a milk-white she-goat, and had been playing with her, and now she turned her head to this and that one of them, bleating, as if to crave more of the game; but they had no eyes for her, but stood staring with might and main on the new-comer and her shining golden gown. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
- Rushing streams overflow their banks in summer, watering the meadows where a young Lev Tolstoy wandered, botanical primer in hand, picking out the . . . red, white, and pink scented tufty clover; milk-white ox-eye daisies with their bright yellow centers and pleasant spicy smell; yellow honey-scented rape blossoms; tall campanulas with white and lilac bells, tulip-shaped; creeping vetch . . . The Return
- Rushing streams overflow their banks in summer, watering the meadows where a young Lev Tolstoy wandered, botanical primer in hand, picking out the . . . red, white, and pink scented tufty clover; milk-white ox-eye daisies with their bright yellow centers and pleasant spicy smell; yellow honey-scented rape blossoms; tall campanulas with white and lilac bells, tulip-shaped; creeping vetch . . . The Return
- At one place irregular concretions of milk-white quartz, cemented by a ferruginous basis, was predominant; at another, the rough surface of compact felspar weathering white presented merely the cavities in which large rounded pebbles had been imbedded, until the partial decomposition of the felspar, under the river floods, had exposed them once more to the action of water. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
- Burns had around him only the features of ordinary Scottish scenery, but from these he drank in no common draught of inspiration; and how admirably has he reproduced such simple objects as the "burn stealing under the lang yellow broom," and the "milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale," the "burnie wimplin 'in its glen," and the The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
- Blood soaked kidskin gloves were peeled off and discarded, new gloves produced from a pocket and slipped onto milk-white hands.
- Mist was rising, and trees and shrubs began to disappear in a milk-white haze.
- The grit settles in the quarries and the milk-white water is pumped up into tanks where the china clay settles slowly.
- Certainly nothing could be gayer, unless to ramble delightfully forever in one of those orange-colored ambrotype-saloons, drawn by milk-white oxen; or to quarter like Gavroche of _Les Miserables_ among the ribs of the plaster elephant in the Bastile; or more pensively to abide in the crannied boat-cabin of the Peggotys, watching the tide sweep out and in. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866
