bread-and-milk

Older and wiser and better people had told him that there could not possibly be a frog in his bread-and-milk and that he was not to talk nonsense; he continued, nevertheless, to talk what seemed the veriest nonsense, and described with much detail the colouration and markings of the alleged frog.

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2007

The sin of taking a frog from the garden and putting it into a bowl of wholesome bread-and-milk was enlarged on at great length, but the fact that stood out clearest in the whole affair, as it presented itself to the mind of Nicholas, was that the older, wiser, and better people had been proved to be profoundly in error in matters about which they had expressed the utmost assurance.

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2007

"You said there couldn't possibly be a frog in my bread-and-milk; there WAS a frog in my bread-and-milk," he repeated, with the insistence of a skilled tactician who does not intend to shift from favourable ground.

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2007

The dramatic part of the incident was that there really was a frog in Nicholas 'basin of bread-and-milk; he had put it there himself, so he felt entitled to know something about it.

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2007

Only that morning he had refused to eat his wholesome bread-and-milk on the seemingly frivolous ground that there was a frog in it.

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2007

He was an old man, and had a number of children, who were just at supper, with nice hot bread-and-milk, when their elder brother arrived with the cart.

The Rose and the Ring 2006

And with indescribable majesty, the Queen, who had no sword handy, waved the pewter spoon with which she had been taking her bread-and-milk, over the bald head of the old nobleman, whose tears absolutely made a puddle on the ground, and whose dear children went to bed that night Lords and Ladies Bartolomeo,

The Rose and the Ring 2006

A bread-and-milk poultice has done little to relieve her distress.

The Last Great Dance on Earth Sandra Gulland 2001

A bread-and-milk poultice has done little to relieve her distress.

The Last Great Dance on Earth Sandra Gulland 2001

He was still very young and had to be force-fed on bread-and-milk and soaked corn.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956