Riley called him "milksop," and "sap-head"; words which seemed to the dull intellect of King Pewee exceedingly witty. From Wordnik.com. [The Hoosier School-boy] Reference
Flosi, "Now bide thou, if thou art not a milksop.". From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference
"I am afraid, Willis, you are a bit of a milksop.". From Wordnik.com. [Willis the Pilot] Reference
"Father thinks I'm a-- I'm a milksop," he faltered. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
Hunsden affirms that his mother is making a milksop. From Wordnik.com. [The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
I like to think Austen finds her an insipid milksop too. From Wordnik.com. [How Do You Solve a Problem Like Fanny Price? Thoughts on Mansfield Park, Novel and Films] Reference
"I do not blame thee," she says, "though thou art no milksop.". From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference
"The lubberly milksop!" muttered the Captain betwixt his teeth. From Wordnik.com. [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference
The poor child will be the veriest milksop that ever was sopped!. From Wordnik.com. [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall] Reference
You're no milksop any fool can see that so stop pretending. From Wordnik.com. [A Crown of Swords]
‘I’m not afraid of you!’ he shouted; ‘do you hear, milksop?. From Wordnik.com. [A Sportsman's Sketches] Reference
By not being the pusillanimous milksop you adore in the likes of B. From Wordnik.com. ["I wasn’t exactly sure what to say to you, except to start with, God, I love our country and I love what we stand for."] Reference
Evidently my words were too harsh for her or her milksop readership. From Wordnik.com. [So, Sandy ... how's those "accomplishments" coming?] Reference
A bully, a coward, a puling milksop, is all the character he beareth. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anerley] Reference
After all, who wants to study national security policy with a milksop?. From Wordnik.com. [Sam’s Club: The Huntingdon Eulogies « Sigmund, Carl and Alfred] Reference
She disliked her elder nephew exceedingly, and despised him as a milksop. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
It seemed possible that the leader of the "Ring" was going to turn milksop. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
Above all he must crush that conceited milksop who was the cause of it all. From Wordnik.com. [Crime and Punishment] Reference
Lanfear seemed jealous of Elayne; that pale-haired milksop, she had called her. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Rising]
They like it, sir, they hate a milksop — young men must be young men, you know. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Pendennis] Reference
The best names she has for him are milksop, coward, and ape; and so we say, with him. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
He is no sweating patchy-skinned milksop but Merlin, and I want his magic for myself. From Wordnik.com. [A Traitor to Memory]
Why then is the News a milksop and apologist for the New York City Police Department?. From Wordnik.com. [Len Levitt: The Daily News and the NYPD: Blinded by Love] Reference
He really had to stop this business of acting the in-love milksop whenever she was near. From Wordnik.com. [Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down] Reference
I should else be put into the lecture room, and not let loose again till I was made a milksop. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
After a moment: "What milksop measures do you imagine can pull anybody through years like these?". From Wordnik.com. [There Will Be Time]
After a moment: “What milksop measures do you imagine can pull anybody through years like these?”. From Wordnik.com. [Two in Time]
“You will pay for his keep and for the extreme inconvenience of having such a milksop aboard my ship?”. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Silver Bow]
I was no milksop, and I had led a soldier's life, and had seen plenty of things that were not pretty to look at. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
Goneril despises her husband Albany as a milksop and goes about cuckolding him with someone she considers a real man, Edmund. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
Thou not understand the dangers which threaten us from this milksop?. From Wordnik.com. [The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt] Reference
I'm an average old sinner, and I'm not old enough yet to like a milksop. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
He will see that I am the same milksop as I always was -- all day and the next. From Wordnik.com. [A Double Barrelled Detective Story] Reference
You are expected to drink, and the man who declines to do so is looked upon as a milksop. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent] Reference
As it was, everybody said he was a milksop, and a tender-foot, and he was just sick of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Bell-Ringer of Angel's] Reference
H.O. is our little brother, and we are not going to let it be our fault if he grows up a milksop. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Treasure Seekers] Reference
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