milch cow

Historical Examples

• You have heard of the fool who had a milch-cow, now hear the story of these other two fools.

  The Kath Sarit Sgara

  Somadeva Bhatta

• Uncle Eph, arent you ashamed, I asked, to work your milch-cow?

  Dixie After the War

  Myrta Lockett Avary

• What necessity could there be for economy with such a milch-cow as that close to their elbows?

  Castle Richmond

  Anthony Trollope

• And how could he raise the wind now that his milch-cow had run so dry?

  Castle Richmond

  Anthony Trollope

• They were paid for—underpaid, I say—but that I cared not for, as they left me one milch-cow and fodder enough to keep her.

  In the Track of the Troops

  R.M. Ballantyne