For the occasion, she wore a colorful blouse and shorts, with her hair in milkmaid braids. From Wordnik.com. [Helena Christensen Wears Short Shorts, Milkmaid Braids (PHOTOS, POLL)] Reference
Dressed in milkmaid outfits, they leap and tumble, twirl and bow, making evident Elkins 'and their own geeky admiration for the film. From Wordnik.com. [Kris Wilton: The Sound of Music Like You've Never Seen It] Reference
So Blamire can scarcely be described as a milkmaid!. From Wordnik.com. [Susanna Blamire ( 1747-94)] Reference
I always have braids in my hair - small "milkmaid" braids. From Wordnik.com. [CHIC IN PARIS] Reference
The "milkmaid," -- which would remove the term from the list of names for "child" in the proper sense of the word. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
A haunted farm, or the weeping spirit of a milkmaid. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Brothers]
She was a poor milkmaid, and he was a noble gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
You ought to be a princess and I ought to be a milkmaid. From Wordnik.com. [Ayala's Angel] Reference
Each milkmaid carries a small white, wooden milking-pail. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference
As matters stand, an old milkmaid could take her from you. '. From Wordnik.com. [Last Sword Of Power]
The first person whom we meet is indeed a milkmaid — Gabriel. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
What a pastoral scene it was, fit for a shepherdess or a milkmaid. From Wordnik.com. [the dirty duck]
Gohia (a kind of lizard), Bachhulia (a calf), Gujaria (a milkmaid). From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
‘Now you look the milkmaid again,’ he said, coming towards her. From Wordnik.com. [The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid] Reference
Waited and looked in vain for the voice and the hand of the milkmaid. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
Why does a drunken milkmaid resemble a celebrated French diplomatist?. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841] Reference
"As you please -- but, I pray you, fair sir, am I not a good milkmaid?". From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls] Reference
Such a phrase might suit a pretty little red-cheeked milkmaid of a girl. From Wordnik.com. [Framley Parsonage] Reference
She was goatherd and milkmaid, fire-tender and cook, tailor and tent-maker. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
You are to come and be the princess, and I am to go and be the milkmaid at home. From Wordnik.com. [Ayala's Angel] Reference
A celestial milkmaid, such as those who danced with Krishna; not a Santal creation. From Wordnik.com. [Folklore of the Santal Parganas] Reference
The doctor collected pus from an infected milkmaid, shot it into the boy, and waited. From Wordnik.com. [The Search For Solutions] Reference
Compare the face you see there with that of any early-rising, hard-working milkmaid. '. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
So, the old lady reasoned, she was no milkmaid or country girl, but most likely a lady. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Come Back]
She was a milkmaid, scribbling love-letters by the light of a farthing dip in an attic. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
She's not a milkmaid, she's -- the painting has been called "The milkmaid" for some 200 years. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 17, 2009] Reference
The Talonhaltija was short and stocky, milkmaid pretty, with a smile that would melt a glacier. From Wordnik.com. [Changeling]
In grateful commemoration of the incident Flambard erected this monument of a milkmaid and her cow. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
Then he gave a yell and started to sing a ridiculous song about the milkmaid and the summer boarder. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference
In appearance, of course, he is mean, but I can no more describe him than a milkmaid could draw cows. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
No wonder that even yet in Siberia the call of the milkmaid is something like the wail of the exiles. From Wordnik.com. [Birdseye Views of Far Lands] Reference
Franz trolled the dairy aisle at the grocery store looking for an ersatz milkmaid with an advanced case of tinnitus. From Wordnik.com. [The Clock Man's Trouble] Reference
In 1788 Jenner had a careful drawing made of the hand of a milkmaid suffering from cowpox to demonstrate to Sir Everard. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Not that she looked like one, exactly; - if she fitted any stereotype, it might have been a milkmaid in a butter commercial. From Wordnik.com. [Chase the Morning]
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