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I had always considered Nellie a milk-and-watery young female, but somehow her quiet ways and soft voice seemed just what were needed in a sick room. I left the two together and came out to wait for Taylor and the doctor. But they did not come. The storm was under full headway now, and the wind was dashing the rain in sheets against the windows.
"Oh, yes, Theodore, I took the liberty of making a few slight changes." "Slight changes! Sleight of hand changes!" Mirabelle drew herself up. "Do you mean to say you criticise what I did? I couldn't see the sense of being milk-and-watery, even if you could. All I put in was what you've said to me a hundred times over. We've wasted too much time already.
Now, the authoress of 'Jane Eyre' did not derive much pleasure from the perusal of the works of the other Jane. 'I know it's very wrong, she modestly said, 'but the fact is I can't read them. They have not got story enough in them to engage my attention. I don't want my blood curdled, but I like it stirred. Miss Austen strikes me as milk-and-watery, and, to say truth, as dull.
"Either I must be intensely stupid or this must be rather difficult to understand," he thought helplessly, when Mabel had favoured him with the perusal of the first act of a tragedy or poetic dialogue, in which the hero, a kind of milk-and-watery Faustus, held converse, and argued upon the deeper questions of life and faith, with a very mild Mephisto.
"What a miserable, pasty, milk-and-watery young person she is beside that magnificent, unconscious beauty! I give in, Phil! I admit your taste. I'm willing to swear that she's a Sun-Angel if you like. Her voice has convinced me of that." At that instant the song ceased. Errington turned and regarded him steadfastly. "Are you hit, George?" he said softly, with a forced smile.
In these days, when the most milk-and-watery platitudes are so often welcomed as sibylline inspirations, it is somewhat refreshing to meet with a female novel-writer who displays the unmistakable fire of genius, however terrific its brightness." Mrs. Warfield's New Novel. The N. Y. Evening Post says of "Miriam Monfort:" "Mrs.
"Why don't you make old Miggs bore a hole in them, or put a light to a barrel of paraffin? Bless your soul! the thing's done every day. What's the use of being milk-and-watery about it?" "No, no, Ezra!" cried his father. "Not that not that. It's one thing letting matters take their course, and it is another thing giving positive orders to scuttle a ship. Besides, it would put us in Miggs' power.
The latter gentleman did not receive his appellation, as might be supposed, from any relations which his character bore to it. He was intended for the Church at one time; but, perhaps, the Church is to be congratulated in that it did not receive him. There is nothing mild or milk-and-watery about our Saint, though he has his own peculiar moral code, and is strictly scrupulous in its observance.
The sirocco of sorrow had fanned its hot breath over my soul; but, no grateful spring shower had cooled it through prayer. God, certainly, knows better than we what we should desire; but why does He not instruct us in His wishes? Perhaps you think this all milk-and-watery talk, and that I do not mean what I say? But I do.
"Just the same, if these girls learn all about me they'll spread it around that I'm just a foundling, and that nobody knows anything about me. It is going to be dreadfully hard." "Now, you pluck up your spirit, Nance Nelson!" commanded Jennie Bruce. "Don't be so milk-and-watery. You're just as good as they are." "I don't know. At least, my folks may not have been as good as their folks."
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