milk-steam

Updated: June 3, 2025

The calf is a creature that insists, whenever it drinks, on thrusting its head to the bottom of the pail with a splash that deluges the boy with milk: it drinks until it is out of breath, and then withdraws its head with another splash and an explosion of milk-steam from its nostrils performances which cause the boy's friends to remark wherever he goes, "You smell of sour milk."

Various - Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878