Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
milk-hedge . - noun A shrub of the genus Wrightia, a native of India.
- noun A shrub, Wrightia saligna, a native of Queensland.
- noun See the extract.
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Examples
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During the years 1843 – 44 my regiment, almost all Hindu Sepoys of the Bombay Presidency, was stationed at a purgatory called Bandar Ghárrá,405 a sandy flat with a scatter of verdigris-green milk-bush some forty miles north of
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They had left him now too wan and weak to dream again; left him to lie torpid, faintly remembering far-off things; just able to turn his eyes and gaze through the window near his cot at the trickle of river running by in the sands, at the straggling milk-bush of the Karoo beyond.
In Chancery 2004
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They had left him now too wan and weak to dream again; left him to lie torpid, faintly remembering far-off things; just able to turn his eyes and gaze through the window near his cot at the trickle of river running by in the sands, at the straggling milk-bush of the Karoo beyond.
The Forsyte Saga - Complete John Galsworthy 1900
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They had left him now too wan and weak to dream again; left him to lie torpid, faintly remembering far-off things; just able to turn his eyes and gaze through the window near his cot at the trickle of river running by in the sands, at the straggling milk-bush of the Karoo beyond.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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They had left him now too wan and weak to dream again; left him to lie torpid, faintly remembering far-off things; just able to turn his eyes and gaze through the window near his cot at the trickle of river running by in the sands, at the straggling milk-bush of the Karoo beyond.
The Forsyte Saga, Volume II. Indian Summer of a Forsyte In Chancery John Galsworthy 1900
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At broad high noon he came upon her, in a bare, stony place tufted with milk-bush.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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At the whip-like crack of the rifle the two dogs dashed forward into the thick clumps of low milk-bush into which the bird had fallen, and presently reappeared,
Through Veld and Forest An African Story Harry Collingwood 1886
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But the dog stood fast, and began to bark; then plunged in amongst some milk-bush, and barked louder than ever.
Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure George Manville Fenn 1870
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During the years 1843-44 my regiment, almost all Hindu Sepoys of the Bombay Presidency, was stationed at a purgatory called Bandar Ghárrá, [FN#405] a sandy flat with a scatter of verdigris-green milk-bush some forty miles north of Karáchi the headquarters.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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The banks were fringed with milk-bush and Asclepias, the Armo-creeper, a variety of thorns, and especially the yellow-berried
First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855
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