I first went to Europe in 1970, chaperoning my old SC mill-town high school band. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But when I look at the neighbourhood where I started life, in a Pittsburgh mill-town on the decline, and the comparatively stable Australian working-class suburb where I grew up, the parallel seems apt. ❋ C N Heidelberg (2009)
He jettisoned references to his favorite green tea and the local Whole Foods, but still seems out of place in a bowling alley or a mill-town tavern. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Moved, that is, from a mill-town house on a lot so small you could hear your neighbor sneeze to the classy suburbs. ❋ Carole Fletcher (2005)
And here, after thanking Mrs. Braley, he decided to remain — later sitting down to dinner with a small group of mill-town store and factory employees, such as partially he had been accustomed to in Paulina Street in Chicago, before moving to the better atmosphere of the Union League. ❋ Unknown (2004)
In 1935 he got the first good job of his life, as a salesman of electric appliances for Carolina Power and Light Company; and we moved forty miles to the small mill-town of Roxboro where finally we had a rented house to ourselves. ❋ REYNOLDS PRICE (1988)
It was made up of the pie connoisseurs of mill-town. ❋ Davis, James J (1922)
So Andy put a padlock on the old log cabin where his loom was set up and went back down to the mill-town. ❋ Various (1915)
Schir William (reverend gentleman) was cruellie slaughtered on the Links of Kincraig in 1582; James (‘in the mill-town of Roberton’), murdered in 1590; Archibald ❋ Unknown (1912)
"We are from Goodyear, a little mill-town," he proceeded slowly, ❋ Unknown (1908)
As we sped out to the little mill-town on the last train, after ❋ Unknown (1908)
They come out from the hot mills into cold, raw winds and fall an easy prey to pneumonia, scourge of the mill-town. ❋ John Van Vorst (1900)
No -- the mill-town would not grow beautiful as it grew larger -- rather, in obedience to the grim law of industrial prosperity, it would soon lose its one lingering grace and spread out in unmitigated ugliness, devouring green fields and shaded slopes like some insect-plague consuming the land. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)
Every one in the mill-town knew of it, and the clippings were passed round among Peter's friends, beginning with the clergyman and ending with his school-boy companions. ❋ Ford, Paul L (1894)
Back then, in the days when investing in a football club was a form of philanthropy rather than an opportunity to grow a global brand, they were bankrolled by a mill-town Abramovich called Samuel Hill-Wood, the local cotton magnate. ❋ Unknown (2009)
