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The seaman looked with contempt upon the squire as a milksop and a landman, who had lived without knowing the points of the compass, or seeing any part of the world beyond the county-town; and whenever they met, would talk of longitude and latitude, and circles and tropicks, would scarcely tell him the hour without some mention of the horizon and meridian, nor shew him the news without detecting his ignorance of the situation of other countries.
"Let me see this scratch first," said Gerard, choking with emotion. "There, I thought so. A scratch? I call it a cut a deep, terrible, cruel cut." Gerard shuddered at sight of it. "She might have done it with her bodkin," said the soldier. "Milksop! that sickens at sight of a scratch and a little blood." "No, no. I could look on a sea of blood, but not on hers.
He carried a long knife stuck in his waistband, but he had no arms beyond this. His arms were bare to the elbow, and the left one was bleeding from a flesh wound that did not look many hours' old. Evidently he was no milksop, for although the wound was pretty severe, the only care he had taken was to tie it loosely up with a strip of white rag.
Prince Karl the Miller's Son was silent a moment. "But I am still looking out for another man with a head-piece to come after me. I have no son, and if I had, the chances are ten to one that he would be either a milksop or a flittermouse painted blue. Milksops I hate, and send to the monkeries. I can endure flittermice painted blue, but they must wear petticoats and pretty petticoats too.
The night was deep, was free there was enticement in it; a lure, a promise, a refuge from entanglement, and love! Milksop tied to his mother's...! His cheeks burned. He shut the window, drew curtains over it, switched off the lighted sconce, and went up-stairs. The door of his room was open, the light turned up; his mother, still in her evening gown, was standing at the window.
I shall send an offer of terms to the Governor of Tortuga that he will be forced to accept. Set a course for the Virgen Magra. We'll go ashore, and settle things from there. And tell them to fetch that milksop Ogeron to the cabin." Levasseur went back to the adoring lady. Thither, too, the lady's brother was presently conducted.
I've always found the best fellows were wildish once. I don't care what he does when he's a green-horn; besides, he's got an excuse for it then. You can't expect to have a man, if he doesn't take a man's food. You'll have a milksop. And, depend upon it, when he does break out he'll go to the devil, and nobody pities him.
Many and many a night, when I was unconscious of her attention, has that good soul pulled my boots off, and seen me laid by my servants snug in bed, and carried off the candle herself; and been the first in the morning, too, to bring me my drink of small-beer. Mine were no milksop times, I can tell you.
Smirke, and to beg him to transfer his services to some other parish. "That milksop of a creature pretend to be worthy of such a woman as Mrs. Pendennis," broke out the Doctor: "where will impudence stop next!" "She is much too old for Mr. Smirke," Mrs. Portman remarked: "why, poor dear Mrs. Pendennis might be his mother almost."
A supply of the best wine has been sent off, and extra stores of all sorts, so you need not be afraid of being starved on the voyage." "I wish he hadn't sent so much," Francis said. "It makes one feel like a milksop. Whose cabin is it I have got?"
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