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More "Milt" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Drumlanrig,) was known and described by Willoughby in the seventeenth century. "To demonstrate the fact," says the more recent observer, "in January 1837, I took a female salmon, weighing fourteen pounds, from the spawning bed, from whence I also took a male parr, weighing one ounce and a half, with the milt of which I impregnated a quantity of her ova, and placed the whole in a private pond, where, to my great astonishment, the process succeeded in every respect as it had done with the ova which had been impregnated by the adult male salmon, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine—Vol. 54, No. 333, July 1843 • Various
... instinct points out to him as peculiarly desirable for that purpose. For instance; so quick is the produce of pigeons, that, in the space of four years, 14,760 may come from a single pair; and in the like period, 1,274,840 from a couple of rabbits, this is nothing to the millions of eggs in the milt of a codfish." ...
— The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual • William Kitchiner
... My name is Milt—Milton Daggett. See you have a New York license on your car. We don't see but mighty few of those through here. Glad I could ...
— Free Air • Sinclair Lewis
... old form, and which I have for many years used with great success. Where the above food does not agree (and no food except a healthy mother's own milk does invariably agree) I occasionally substitute sugar-of milt for the lump sugar, in the proportion of a tea spoonful of sugar-of milk to ...
— Advice to a Mother on the Management of her Children • Pye Henry Chavasse
... (Asplenium ceterach—an Arabian term), or Scaly Fern, or Finger Fern, grows on old walls, and in the clefts of moist rocks. It is also called "Miltwaste," because supposed to cure disorders of the milt, ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie
... I know 'bout Germany, you'd be won'ful man! I'M won'ful man. I know something! Going tell, too. Going see 'thorities this afternoon. Going tell 'em great secret!... Grea' milt'ry secret! Tell 'em all 'bout it! Grea' secresh! Nobody knows grea'-sekresh 'cep m'self! Whaddya thinka that? Gimme l'il Hollanschnapps n'water ...
— In Secret • Robert W. Chambers
... / diu k[u:]neginne milt: 'ow[e] mir m[i]nes leides! / nu ist dir d[i]n schilt mit swerten niht verhouwen: / du l[i]st ermorder[o]t. unt wesse ich wer i[z] het get[a]n, / ich riete im immer ...
— A Middle High German Primer - Third Edition • Joseph Wright
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