"Dairymaid" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was no believer in ghosts; but others of the company were too scared for speech. All had risen, and were staring in the direction whence that dismal shriek had come. A trick, perhaps, since anybody with strong lungs—dairymaid or cowboy—could shriek. They all wanted to see something, a real ...
— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon
... with an excuse. "'T is milking time, sir; and you shall know that I am our dairymaid. I seldom ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 • Various
... handling is somewhat like sucking, whereas stripping is not at all like it. It is said that stripping is good for agitating the udder, the agitation of which is conducive to the withdrawal of a large quantity of milk; but there is nothing to prevent the agitation of the udder as much as the dairymaid pleases, while holding in the other mode. Indeed, a more constant vibration could be kept up in that way by the vibrations of the arms than by stripping. Stripping, by using an unconstrained pressure on two sides of the teat, is much more apt to press it unequally, than by grasping the ...
— Cattle and Their Diseases • Robert Jennings
... impression which his vigorous measures had made upon the intractable dairymaid, now applied himself, as a sensible and good-natured man, to secure by fair means the ascendency which he had obtained by some wholesome violence; and he succeeded so well in representing to her the idle nature of her fears, and the ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott |
