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Mother's milk   /mˈəðərz mɪlk/   Listen
Mother's milk

noun
1.
Milk secreted by a woman who has recently given birth.





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"Mother's milk" Quotes from Famous Books



... And therefore the Lord, seeing the Jewish people to be cruel, that He might reclaim them to pity, wished to train them to pity even towards brute beasts, forbidding certain things to be done to animals which seem to touch upon cruelty. And therefore He forbade them to seethe the kid in the mother's milk (Deut. xiv. 21), or to muzzle the treading ox (Deut. xxv. 4), or to kill the old bird with the ...
— Moral Philosophy • Joseph Rickaby, S. J.
... type, ceased chafing me, and arose awkwardly to his feet. The man who had spoken to him was clearly a Cockney, with the clean lines and weakly pretty, almost effeminate, face of the man who has absorbed the sound of Bow Bells with his mother's milk. A draggled muslin cap on his head and a dirty gunny-sack about his slim hips proclaimed him cook of the decidedly dirty ship's galley ...
— The Sea-Wolf • Jack London
... moral stuff civilized society is composed. The atmosphere is charged with it; we breathe it with every breath and drink it with our mother's milk. Culture and education refine these things slightly but leave them basically untouched. A whole world of literature has been created to justify this kind of life as the only normal one. And this is the more to be wondered at seeing that these are the ...
— The Pursuit of God • A. W. Tozer
... of Youth is sure to overcome all Obstacles that oppose, though Defects were suck'd in with our Mother's Milk. This Opinion of mine is subject to strong Objections; however, Experience will defend it, provided he corrects himself in time. But if he delays it, the older he grows the ...
— Observations on the Florid Song - or Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers • Pier Francesco Tosi
... separation, Whence my sadness at departure, How my mother's milk repay her. Or the goodness of my father, 330 Or my brother's love repay him, Or my ...
— Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) - The Land of the Heroes • Anonymous


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