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Luckily the third in command, Lieutenant Heady, was no milksop.

As may be supposed, no one after this ventured to call Ellis a milksop, or to speak disparagingly of him in any other way.

"Why, it would take a little pink milksop like Bertha Parkes to wear such colors as those," she said behind his back one day.

Wiser boys called me a milksop and various other names, which I furiously resented yet inwardly recognized as just.

Master Stewart might be a milksop, but Crispin accounted him leastways honest, and had a kindness for him in spite of all.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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