Mills (Miss), the bosom friend of Dora. Supposed to have been blighted in early life in some love affair, and hence she looks on the happiness of others with a calm, supercilious benignity, and talks of herself as being “in the desert of Sahara.”—C. Dickens, David Copperfield (1849).
Millwood (Sarah), the courtezan who enticed George Barnwell to rob his master and murder his uncle. Sarah Millwood spent all the money that George Barnwell obtained by these crimes, then turned him out of doors, and informed against him. Both were hanged.—George Lillo, George Barnwell (1732).
Milly, the wife of William Swidger. She is the good angel of the tale.—C. Dickens, The Haunted Man (1848).
Milo, an athlete of Croto´na, noted for his amazing strength. He could carry on his shoulders a four-year-old heifer. When old, Milo attempted to tear in twain an oak tree, but the parts, closing on his hands, held him fast, till he was devoured by wolves.
Milo (The English), Thomas Topham, of London (1710-1752).
Milton, introduced by Sir Walter Scott in Woodstock (time, Commonwealth).
Milton of Germany, Frederick Gottlieb Klopstock, author of The Messiah, an epic poem (1724-1803).
A very German Milton indeed.
Coleridge.
Milton’s Monument, in Westminster Abbey, was by Rysbrack.
Milvey (The Rev. Frank), a “young man expensively educated and wretchedly paid, with quite a young wife and half a dozen young children. He was under the necessity of teaching ... to eke out his scanty means, yet was generally expected to have more time to spare than the idlest person in the parish, and more money than the richest.”