Milk. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Milk


A land flowing with milk and honey. Numbers, Chap. xiv. Verse 13.	1
May the Himera flow with milk instead of water! May the fountain of Sybaris flow with honey! Banks’ Theocritus.—Idyll V. Page 32.	2
1. Let Sporus tremble— 2. What! that thing of silk! Sporus, that mere white curd of ass’s milk! Pope.—Epi. to Arbuthnot, Line 305.	3
The crust removed, her cheeks as smooth as silk, Are polish’d with a wash of ass’s milk. Juvenal.—Sat. VI. (Dryden.)	4