I have had the cows, after they had eaten up my garden, break into the stable where my own milcher was tied, and gore her and devour her meal.
"Birds and Poets"
John Burroughs
But she was ruined as a milcher, and her history thenceforward was brief and touching!
"Birds and Poets"
John Burroughs
Tess's attention was thus attracted to the dairyman's interlocutor, of whom she could see but the merest patch, owing to his burying his head so persistently in the flank of the milcher.
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman"
Thomas Hardy