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Examples
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So admittedly for me it's like being a milk-man but hating the very sight of milk -- I just don't understand not knowing and by action of occupation not accepting the stress and responsibility of what the job entails!
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Brands were built on this model of time perception â after major corporations killed off your friendly milk-man h/t to Alex Erster Chung, we needed assurance that our shelves would be stocked with our favorite products on our next visit to the store, and that those products would maintain a standard level of quality.
an authentic brand, continuity and multiplicity / what consumes me, bud caddell 2009
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The milk-man stood there with his yoke and cans, and his naily boots on our new oil-cloth, and, not being able to hide himself plainly, he pulled out his slate and began to make his bill.
Erema Richard Doddridge 2004
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They had not gone down the first street, when they saw their own milk-man.
The Book of One Syllable Esther Bakewell
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Now I'm going up stairs, to put on a calico long-short, and take a nap; and you are to wash these dishes, and put them in the closet; clear away the table; sweep the room and dust it; wash these children's faces, and keep them quiet; put some water in the tea-kettle and set it boiling; tend the door, and keep a look out for the milk-man.
Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Fanny Fern
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They first went around to Caper's studio, where they had only to wait a short time before the milk-man came, driving the old Billy-goat up-stairs before him.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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The kettle was ticking on the back of the range, a scoured empty milk-pan awaited the milk-man.
Saturday's Child Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
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To the milk-man engaged in the distribution of milk for direct consumption, all bacterial life is more or less of a detriment, while to the butter-maker and cheese-maker some forms are a direct necessity.
Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying 1910
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Conn., outbreak in 1895 where 386 cases developed in a few weeks, 97 per cent. of which occurred on the route of one milk-man.
Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying 1910
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Many thousand Cats have doubtless hung, in hope, about the tempting milk-cans that the early milk-man leaves on steps and window-ledges, and it was by the merest accident that Kitty found one with a broken lid, and so was taught to raise it and have a satisfying drink.
Animal Heroes Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
Prolagus commented on the word milk-man
Not a male milk-woman.
May 16, 2011