This Krishna of the Gita is clearly quite different in character from the Krishna of the milkmaids and, without some effort at reconciliation, the two must obviously present a baffling enigma.
In what ways did he love the milkmaids and why has this aspect of his story assumed such big proportions in Indian religion?
Lovely objected to milkmaids on the score of a taste sharpened to an exquisite point of refinement by an ideal passion.
There will be some ploughboys, shepherds and farmers, with a few milkmaids and farm wenches, and the whole will resemble a painted Dutch interior.
The shepherds whistled on the hills, and the milkmaids sang in the winding lanes among the white-thorn hedges, the smell of which was everywhere.
He could hear the milkmaids calling in the meadows; and when he trundled slowly home the smoke was creeping up in pale-blue threads from the draught-holes in the wall.
In London thirty years ago, When pretty milkmaids went about, It was a goodly sight to see Their May-day pageant all drawn out.
What would Adelaine Drexel or Muriel Ellingworth think if they knew I was associating with milkmaids and--and butter churners!
They were standing alone in the living-room in front of the fireplace where they had stood on that first day when the "milkmaids and butter-churners" had come to call.
Chronicles of Queen Elizabeth's reign tell of the Earl of Leicester and his train setting forth to play the game, though it is supposed to have originated with the milkmaids and their milking stools.
After us, the maidens came, milkmaids and the rest of them, with Betty Muxworthy at their head, scolding even now, because they would not walk fitly.
Then he looked up and saw the six milkmaids standing quite close to him, full of hesitation and longing.
All the milkmaids came tumbling from their perches to run and comfort their weeping comrade.
There were a good many other things, but these were what themilkmaids took in at a glance.
So the milkmaidsran off to smooth their hair and their kerchiefs and do up ribbons and buttons or whatever else was necessary.
PART IV The six milkmaidswere waiting for him in the apple-tree--no; Joscelyn was in the swing.
The milkmaids sprang quickly into other branches around him, shaking a hail of sweet apples about his head.
But theMilkmaids in their country prints And faces washed with dew, They laughed at Lords and Ladies And sang "Cuckoo!
You Milkmaids in the hedgerows, Get up and milk your kine!
And he and the ducks squabbled over it during the next hour, while Martin and the milkmaids breakfasted on bread and apples with no squabbling and great good spirits.
At this the milkmaids clapped their hands, and little Joan, running to the Well-House, with a touch like thistledown drew from the weeper's yellow hair a yellow primrose.
The conversation at the table mixed in with his phantasmal orchestra till he thought: "What a fluty voice one of those milkmaids has!
But the circumstance was sufficient to lead him to select Tess in preference to the other pretty milkmaids when he wished to contemplate contiguous womankind.
It was a large room over the milk-house, some thirty feet long; the sleeping-cots of the other three indoor milkmaids being in the same apartment.
She went out towards the mead, joining the other milkmaids with a bound, as if trying to make the open air drive away her sad constraint.
In the interval which elapsed before the calves were sold there was, of course, little milking to be done, but as soon as the calf had been taken away the milkmaids would have to set to work as usual.
Meanwhile many of the milkmaids had said to one another of the newcomer, "How pretty she is!
I call for a dozen volunteer milkmaids until this adjustment can be made.
The brilliant young leader of the new moral world led the procession of milkmaids back to the house as the shadows of evening fell, a sadder but wiser man for the day's experience.
And now the milkmaids with their pots and pails of milk, and the buttermakers with their baskets filled with the rich yellow pats of butter, filed in long procession to the right and left of the cabin of Mother Mitchel.
There were pails upset, and even some milkmaids went head over heels.
The milkmaids were busy from morning till night in milking the cows.
Krishna's childhood in Jasoda's house with his miraculous feats of strength and his amorous sports with Radha and the other milkmaids of Brindawan, are among the most favourite Hindu legends.
This is supposed to be clay taken from a tank at Dwarka, in which the Gopis or milkmaids who had been Krishna's companions drowned themselves when they heard of his death.
The upbringing of Krishna among the cowherds and his flirtations with the milkmaids are again and again mentioned in these works, but the word Abhira does not occur even once in this connection.
Also, Mor Inga was good enough to tell the milkmaids that they might dance for me in the fladbroed-room.
Milkmaids have been connected with May-day customs from an early period.
The milkmaids who supplied London and other places used to dress themselves gaily on May-day and go round from house to house performing a dance, and receiving gratuities from their customers.
Miss Edith Mendham says of the Sussex game, it is supposed to derive its name from being played by milkmaids when they returned from milking.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "milkmaids" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
