Tide Mill

She was moored three quarters of a mile to the eastward of Brooklyn ferry, near a tide-mill on the Long ❋ Danske Dandridge (N/A)

Of the villages in the centre of the peninsula Sidlesham is the most considerable, with its handsome square church tower and its huge red tide-mill, now silent and weather-worn, standing mournfully at the head of the dry harbour of Pagham, whose waters once turned its wheels. ❋ E.V. Lucas (N/A)

Nothing has to be done but to keep it supplied with paper and pencil, and turn a handle as if it were a coffee-mill instead of a tide-mill. ❋ Oliver Lodge (1895)

There are many drawbacks to a tide-mill of this description. ❋ Unknown (1876)

There cannot be a doubt that in this epoch of the earth's history, so long as the price of coal is only a few shillings a ton, the tide-mill, even though we seem to get its power without current expense, is vastly more expensive than a steam-engine. ❋ Unknown (1876)

Even then, however, the financial consideration remains, as to whether the cost of building the dam and maintaining the tide-mill in good order will not on the whole exceed the original price and the charges for the maintenance of a hundred horse power steam-engine. ❋ Unknown (1876)

The story tells how they purchased a tide-mill, which afterwards, by the ill-will and obstinacy of neighbors, became a source of much trouble to them. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)

I hope he may succeed; but as they were talking the other evening, I thought of the river, and all the pretty symbols the tide-mill presents, and felt if I could at all adjust the economics to the more simple procedure, I would far rather be the miller, hoping to attract by natural affinity some congenial baker, ❋ Ossoli, Margaret F (1851)

a tide-mill which he attended was in the immediate vicinity, as a landing-place for which the wharf where we stood had been erected. ❋ Danske Dandridge (N/A)

a tide-mill, which afterwards, by the ill-will and obstinacy of neighbors, became a source of much trouble to them. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)