I shall not be happy till I have made it up: I never am happy till I am friends with my neighbours; so to-morrow I must make a pilgrimage to Royd corn-mill, soothe the miller, and praise the grain; and next day I must call at De Walden - where I hate to go - and carry in my reticule half an oat-cake to give to Mr. Sam's favourite pointers. ' ❋ Unknown (2004)
One of the brooks turns a corn-mill, and at least one produces trouts. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Recently I saw in a paper a picture of the last decrepitude of the once thriving corn-mill beside its pool that long ago seemed to me so important. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1965)
The Lincoln homestead in Indiana, in 1820-23, had at the first the primitive corn-mill in the Indian fashion -- a burnt-out block with a pounder rigged to a well-sweep. ❋ Henry Llewellyn Williams (N/A)
With equal energy and success it will flow north or south; it will turn a corn-mill, or a threshing-machine, or a grindstone. ❋ Various (N/A)
He was superintending the erection of a new corn-mill, and whilst seeing to its being properly started, incautiously stretched his arm over two cog-wheels. ❋ David J. Deane (N/A)
The greatest of his benefactions to his neighbors were: His corn-mill erected in 1654, and his saw-mill in 1659. ❋ Various (N/A)
Huge factories and foundries rise from the banks of the stream; the ford is spanned by a substantial bridge; the corn-mill has disappeared, and so have the rheumatic-looking old mossy cottages. ❋ Theodore P. Wilson (N/A)
On Sunday afternoons colliers and potters, gathered round the jawbone of a whale which then stood as a natural curiosity on the waste space near the corn-mill, would discuss the fray, and make bets for next ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
The early years of the nineteenth century looked on no more characteristic farmhouse than that where dwelt Diarmid Garland and his brood, on the bank above the swift-running water-race which turned the corn-mill with such deftness that people came from as far as Stranryan to admire. ❋ Unknown (1887)
Then follows a description of the orchards and gardens; the servants 'offices, brewhouse, bakehouse, dairy, pigeon-houses, and corn-mill; the river and its abundance of fish; the warren, the coppices, the walks; ending thus -- ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)
The Ass, on the contrary, had much work to do in grinding the corn-mill and in carrying wood from the forest or burdens from the farm. ❋ Aesop (1880)
The interior of the corn-mill presented an amusing scene. ❋ Matilda Betham-Edwards (1877)
We first visited the olive-presses and corn-mill -- this farmer was village miller as well as olive grower -- all worked by water-power and erected by himself at a heavy outlay. ❋ Matilda Betham-Edwards (1877)
In his naked limbs there was a supreme power; in his glance there was a divine command; his head was lifted as though no yoke could ever lie on that proud neck; his foot seemed to spurn the earth as though no mortal tie had ever bound him to the sod that human steps bestrode: yet at the corn-mill he laboured, grinding wheat like the patient blinded oxen that toiled beside him. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)
Yet he laboured here at the corn-mill of Admetus; and watching him at his bondage there stood the slender, slight, wing-footed Hermes, with a slow, mocking smile upon his knavish lips, and a jeering scorn in his keen eyes, even as though he cried: ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)
The Ass had much work to do, in grinding the corn-mill, and in carrying wood from the forest or burdens from the farm. ❋ 620 BC-563 BC Aesop (1865)
It is now twenty years since I constructed an iron house, with the machinery of a corn-mill, for Halil Pasha, then Seraskier of the Turkish army at Constantinople. ❋ Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 (1863)
It is now twenty years since I constructed an iron house, with the machinery of a corn-mill, for Halil Pasha, then Seraskier of the Turkish army at ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)
M. Tibeats to a considerable amount in consideration of his services in building the mills on Indian Creek, and also a weaving-house corn-mill and other erections on the plantation at Bayou Boeuf, not yet completed. ❋ B. 1808 (1853)
