The water gushed happily down the sluice under the idle water-wheel into the millpond. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"Be a sight more lovely if the water-wheel were turnin '," he said practically. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Of course, up until fairly recently about 2:47 PM yesterday it was thought that the earliest recorded Contrivance in this country was the famous water-wheel driven vole featured in the bottom left corner of the Bayeux Tapestry, just to the right of the entrails from the partially disembowelled Saxon lying nearby. ❋ David Hadley (2009)
Like the distant frog-concert and chirp of the cicada, the creak of the water-wheel and the stroke of hammers upon the anvil from afar, the murmur of the fountain, the sough of the wind and the plash of the wavelet, they occupy the sensorium with a soothing effect, forming a barbaric music full of sweetness and peaceful pleasure. ❋ Unknown (2006)
He often spent half a day in gazing at a market garden, the beds of lettuce, the chickens on the dung-heap, the horse turning the water-wheel. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Edit. (p. 263) Sayf al-Muluk drops asleep under a tree to the lulling sound of a Sákiyah or water-wheel, and is seen by ❋ Unknown (2006)
Travellers mostly abuse its “dismal creaking” and “mournful monotony”: I have defended the music of the water-wheel in ❋ Unknown (2006)
They are not the two dusty millers in the white mill down by the river, where the great water-wheel goes heavily round and round, like the monotonous days and nights in this forgotten place. ❋ Unknown (2007)
If I were suddenly to kill one of these animals and to take out all the soft parts, I should find the shell to be perfectly inert, to have no more power of moving itself than is possessed by the machinery of a mill when disconnected from its steam-engine or water-wheel. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Yoda writing professionally is like standing under a giant water-wheel and trying to push the thing in the other direction with your jedi "force". ❋ Unknown (2007)
No added ingredients and made from flour that was ground from a water-wheel powered mill. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It was all wild, romantic, and solemn; and sometimes we would pause in our conversation to listen to the sounds around us: the last call to prayer on the minaret-top, the soughing of the wind through the mountain-gorges, and the noise of the water-wheel in the neighbouring orchard. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I want to cut a notch here, to cut through to that bend-then I can put a small water-wheel here and get a good fall. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2005)
The mode of estimating the revenue in Nubia is not from a certain extent of ground, like the Syrian and Egyptian Fedhan, but from every Sakie, or water-wheel employed by the natives, after the inundation, and during the summer, for the purposes of irrigation; the same mode prevails on the banks of the Nile as far as Sennaar. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Smoke was issuing from a high chimney in the rear of it, and there was the sound of a water-wheel at the side. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The water-wheel of the paper-mill was audible there, and seemed to have a softening influence on the bright wintry scene. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Coming to the little mill called the Melyn Bac, at the bottom of the gorge, we went into the yard to observe the water-wheel. ❋ Unknown (2004)
