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  • “I wish you joy of the milk-blooded coward, Cathy!” said her friend.

    Wuthering Heights 2002

  • The fumes cleared sufficiently from Buck Heath's mind to allow him to remember that Jasper Lanning's boy was no other than the milk-blooded

    Way of the Lawless Max Brand 1918

  • The sooner we give up all this milk-blooded, blue-spectacled, pacificist talk the better.

    The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907

  • "I wish you joy of the milk-blooded coward, Cathy!" said her friend.

    Wuthering Heights 1847

  • 'I wish you joy of the milk-blooded coward, Cathy!' said her friend.

    Wuthering Heights Emily Bront�� 1833

  • "Ah, lily-livered rogue!" shouted he out to me, "milk-blooded unbeliever! pale-faced miscreant! lives he after insulting thy master in thy presence!

    Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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