Milton

Examples

• He reviewed his position as a Milton manufacturer. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• You know, I'm a stranger here, so perhaps I'm not so quick at understanding what you mean as if I'd lived all my life at Milton. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• But--Mr. Bell--have you come from Oxford or from Milton? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• But you know I am but an uncouth Milton manufacturer; will you forgive me? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Milton tried to see the first woman; but, Cary, he saw her not. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You think I'm an old woman whose ideas are bounded by Milton, and whose own crow is the whitest ever seen. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Then her thoughts went back to Milton, with a strange sense of the contrast between the life there, and here. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• You will see Milton without smoke in a few days, I imagine, Miss Hale. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Milton is not the place for cowards. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• At any rate, he has property there, which has very much increased in value since Milton has become such a large manufacturing town. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Well, at any rate, I revoke what I said this morning--that you Milton people did not reverence the past. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The next afternoon, about twenty miles from Milton-Northern, they entered on the little branch railway that led to Heston. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Now, don't you think we could get mamma there with Dixon, while you and I go and look at houses, and get one all ready for her in Milton? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• But they visit wi' a' th' first folk in Milton. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I am haunted by the fear that our coming to Milton has killed her. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

Edited by Erna