Use mill in a sentence
Sentences starting with mill
- Mill recognises ('System of Logic,' vol. [1]
- Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, 'Utilitarianism,' (1864, pp. [1]
Sentences ending with mill
- Not for worlds would Mr. Sprole have offended the agent of the Chippering Mill. [9]
- It was that which made her give a little jerky bow to the miller and the postmaster when she passed the mill. [11]
- The world had turned upside down indeed if the City Government of Hampton refused to take the advice of the agent of the Chippering Mill! [9]
- He says our tunnel is in 52 feet, and a small stream of water has been struck, which bids fair to become a "big thing" by the time the ledge is reached--sufficient to supply a mill. [5]
- A shout of triumph announced that the gates, like a broken dam, had given way, and the torrent poured in between the posts, flooding the yard, pressing up the towered stairways and spreading through the compartments of the mill. [9]
- They blocked the traffic, halted the clanging trolleys, surged into the mouth of West Street, booing and cursing at the soldiers whose threatening line of bayonets stretched across that thoroughfare half-way down toward the canal, guarding the detested Chippering Mill. [9]
- I've been with them, I marched up here with them from the Clarendon when they battered in the gates and smashed your windows--and I wanted to smash your windows, too, to blow up your mill. [9]
- Some chemistry of the soul had taken place in him in the hour when he drove to the Manor Cartier from Vilray, and it produced a strange fire, which merged into the reflection of the sky above the burning mill. [11]
- The gates of the slide could be opened by machinery from the Little Mill. [11]
- I watched from the Big Mill. [11]
Short sentences using mill
- They denounced the mill owners. [9]
- Mill, 'Utilitarianism,' p. [1]
- Mill. [1]
Sentences containing mill two or more times
- You could hear the swill of the river, the water licking the piers, and the saws in the Big Mill and the Little Mill as they marched through the timber, flashing their teeth like bayonets. [11]
- You tell him that you'll build a quartz mill on his property, and make him a fourth or a third, or half owner in said mill in consideration of the privilege of using said property--and that will bring him to his milk in a jiffy. [5]
- There was the mill to which she went every day: she recognized it, yet it was not the same mill, nor was Fillmore Street the Fillmore Street of old. [9]
More example sentences with the word mill in them
- They tell me you're buildin' a mill up at McChesney's, and I reckon you're as cute as any of 'em. [9]
- Then, of course, you must show us the mill working at night, and afterwards--may I ask it?--you must all come and have supper with me at the summer hotel. [11]
- I will meet you at the old mill in half an hour. [11]
- The good you would put in a mill to watch the stones grind, and the bad you would put on a prairie alone to make the grist for the grinding. [11]
- Conversely, take the workman settled down to work in the mill, at the best wages attainable at the time. [4]
- I'd go down with you to the mill, but you should go alone. [11]
- The mill owner, with a glance at the boss, did nothing of the kind, but immediately began to talk rapidly to Mr. Merrill. [9]
- Jones says he will move his mill up next spring. [5]
- I told you, when we met up there by the mill this summer, that if Mr. Flint had consulted me about your candidacy, before seeing you in New York, I shouldn't have advised it--this time. [9]
- Ahead of her were the lights of the Chippering Mill, in her ears was the rhythmic sound of the looms working of nights on the Bradlaugh order. [9]
- I said, if we tried to cut wages down to a fifty-four hour basis we'd have a strike on our hands in every mill in Hampton,--didn't I? [9]
- We made our way slowly to the mill, and found Mr. Devlin, Ruth, and Roscoe, with Ruth's sister, and one or two other friends, expecting us. [11]
- He knew every watchman and foreman in the mill, and many of the second hands. [9]
- The town itself was squat but amiable: small houses and large huts; the only place of note and dignity, the new town hall, which was greatly overshadowed by the big mill, and even by the two smaller ones flanking it north and south. [11]
- The mill itself was in a blaze of white. [11]
- But Janet, who was earning six dollars as a stenographer in the office of the Chippering Mill, regularly gave half of hers. [9]
- Now Miss Ottway was a good stenographer, she was capable, and a fine woman, but she never got the idea, the spirit of the mill in her as you've got it, and she wasn't able to save me trouble, as you do. [9]
- Ye would make us over-- give us cotton beds and wooden floors and fine flour of the mill, and cleanse the cholera-hut with disinfectants, but are these things all? [11]
- Mill-folks will build us a mill, and wait for their pay. [5]
- So I go up from the mill more times, and I bring fol- lols for that Marie, for you know I said I go to marry him some day. [11]
- It is hardly too much to say that it has become the fashion to write, as it used to be to dance the minuet well, or to use the broadsword, or to stand a gentlemanly mill with a renowned bruiser. [4]
- I have also told you that the country about here is pregnant with the finest mill sites in the world. [5]
- It was mortgaged to within eight thousand dollars of what it could be sold for but, if he could gain time, that eight thousand dollars would build the mill again. [11]
- Meanwhile, in obedience to the unerring instinct for drama peculiar to great metropolitan dailies, newspaper correspondents were alighting from every train, interviewing officials and members of labour unions and mill agents: interviewing Claude Ditmar, the strongest man in Hampton that day. [9]
- These had consented to the strike reluctantly, through fear, or had been carried away by the eloquence and enthusiasm of the leaders, by the expectation that the mill owners would yield at once. [9]
- On his way to the mill he had dwelt with Epicurean indulgence on this sight of her, and he had not been disappointed. [9]
- He must go to the mill at once, and he started for it. [11]
- By bearing away to the left into another path, and making a detour, she could reach the Meeting-house through a narrow lane leading past a now disused mill and a small, strong stream flowing from the hill above. [11]
- She seemed about to speak, but with second thought, moved on slowly past the mill and towards the Meeting-house. [11]
- I couldn't bear to see the mill going to scrap, and I told him a thing or two,--I had the facts and the figures. [9]
- Since you want to know, I will inform you that an eight-stamp water mill, put up and ready for business would cost about $10,000 to $12,000. [5]
- I wasn't going to give any other mill in New England or any of those southern concerns a chance to walk off with it--not on your life! [9]
- The mill had to be run, and people to be got to run it. [9]
- For a long time, after I left him, I thought I didn't, I thought I hated him, and when I found out what had happened to me--that night I came to you--I got my father's pistol and went to the mill to shoot him. [9]
- We watched it till we saw it get to the end of its journey in the valley beneath, not far from the great mill to which we were bound. [11]
- I have been through the California mill, with all its "dips, spurs and angles, variations and sinuosities. [5]
- If you think this moisture is bad you ought to see a mill with the old vapour-pot system with the steam shooting out into the room. [9]
- She could not think of the mill as belonging to the Chipperings and the other stockholders, but to Ditmar, who had shaped it into an expression of himself, since it was his ideal. [9]
- A brother Yankee, then in London, had started the project of a mill, which was to be carried by the water of the Thames. [6]
- His loyalty to them and to the mill he so ably conducted was the great loyalty of his life. [9]
- She stood by the window, awaiting his pleasure, watching the white mist as it rolled over the floor of the river, catching glimpses in vivid, saffron blurs of the lights of the Arundel Mill on the farther shore. [9]
- There is at the Warm Springs a thriving mill for crushing and pulverizing barites, known vulgarly as heavy-spar. [4]
- The whistle of the up-train served to strengthen his resolution, for he was reminded thereby that his mill often had occasion to ask favors of the Truro Railroad. [9]
- And instead of the stringent monster-cry of the siren, of the discordant clamour of the mill bells, it was sweet yet strange to be awakened by silvertoned chimes proclaiming peaceful hours. [9]
- She thought of the story he had told her, how by self-assertion and persistence he had become agent of the Chippering Mill, how he had convinced Mr. Stephen Chippering of his ability. [9]
- The odour of the sawdust as he passed through a mill was sweeter than a million bunches of violets. [11]
- Two years later, the same stockholders increased their capital to $225,000; added a third story to the mill, increased its length to 317 feet; added machinery to increase the capacity to 10,300 spindles and 304 looms. [5]
- That Mr. Semple, the mill treasurer, came down from Boston that morning to confer with Ditmar was for Janet in the nature of a reprieve. [9]
- Then he praised the mill site and the land all over again. [9]
- No sooner was the mill fairly started than off he went to the Cumberland. [9]
- I leaped on the mare, and with blinded eyes rode down the familiar trail, past the mill, to Harrodsburg. [9]
- The manager of the main mill, with grave face, said: "No, Mr. Grier, I don't think they'll be satisfied. [11]
- She is become the horseleech's daughter and my mill doesn't grind fast enough to suit her. [5]
- Each morning, as the clamour grew louder, there was an interval of bewilderment, of revulsion, until the realization came of mill bells swinging in high cupolas above the river,--one rousing another. [9]
- And out of the Chippering Mill, especially. [9]
- Ex officio, as the agent of the Chippering Mill and a man of substance to boot, he was "in" politics, hail fellow well met with and an individual to be taken into account by politicians from the governor and member of congress down. [9]
- But instead of that you let 'em into the mill to shut off the power and intimidate our own people. [9]
- The fact was that the mill owners were more difficult to get together in a body. [9]
- The world knew that the burning of the mill was a blow to Jean Jacques, but it did not know how great and heavy the blow was. [11]
- I thought afterwards that it was a very courageous thing for him to do, because he was so popular with the mill people, and they had such a feeling against us. [9]
- And he allowed that he would have the more time to hunt if the mill were a success. [9]
- It was possible that he would be going to the mill at this time, after his dinner! [9]
- Do you know that he stole all the stamps out of an 8 stamp quartz mill one night, and brought them home under his over-coat and hid them in the back room? [5]
- I stole through that darkness to the Little Mill. [11]
- I was sure that at Viking the river-drivers had laid their plans so secretly that the news of them would scarcely reach the ears of the manager of the mill, and that, therefore, his influence, as Mr. Devlin's, would not be available. [11]
- Rock taken from ten feet below the surface on the other part of the discovery, has yielded $150.00 to the ton in the mill and we are at work 300 feet from their shaft. [5]
- Suddenly, with reverberating strokes, the mill bells rang out, the electric gongs chattered, the siren screeched, drowning the voices. [9]
- He saw himself standing at the head of the flume out there by the Mill Cartier with his hand on the lever. [11]
- When the monotonous sound of Weyrother's voice ceased, Kutuzov opened his eye as a miller wakes up when the soporific drone of the mill wheel is interrupted. [2]
- The mill had shut down for repairs, or something. [5]
- On Friday afternoon, shortly after Ditmar had begun to dictate his correspondence, Mr. Holster, the agent of the Clarendon Mill, arrived and interrupted him. [9]
- But as it shone upon the ruins of the mill, when Jean Jacques went out into the working world again, it made so gaunt and hideous a picture that, in spite of himself, a cry of misery came from his lips. [11]
- At times, indeed, she betrayed concern about Edward, wondering whether he were comfortable at the mill, and she washed and darned the clothes he sent home by messenger. [9]
- He had not set the mill afire. [11]
- After a little, Sellers asked him what he was grinding in his mental mill. [5]
- I had never seen this kind of a mill before. [5]
- But you can see the mill. [4]
- I'd like to see him up against this low-class European labour trying to run a mill with them. [9]
- That is to say, I went to work as a common laborer in a quartz mill, at ten dollars a week and board. [5]
- He tried to say something, but failing, departed heavily for the mill. [9]
- At last she saw him coming from the flume of the mill! [11]
- Only yesterday I saw her going through the mill with young Caldwell. [9]
- It's just the same with these mill hands, they're not human beings to you, they're--they're cattle. [9]
- Now no one replied immediately to her remarks, and she continued: "If I were an artist I should wish to paint that scene, given that the lights were not so bright and that mill machinery not so sharply defined. [11]
- He had also repeated Cynthia's remark about Bob's father not being quite the biggest man in his part of the country, and ventured the surmise that she was the daughter of a rival mill owner. [9]
- J. Stuart Mill remarks ('The Subjection of Women,' 1869, p. 122), "The things in which man most excels woman are those which require most plodding, and long hammering at single thoughts. [1]
- Since then, by reason of the mill site and the business we got by it, the land had become the most valuable in that part of the country. [9]
- Walking swiftly, he reached the old mill, and waited. [11]
- At seven I reached a little station where a stage was waiting to take me to Callender's Mill. [9]
- She was a quite biddable creature and good-hearted, but she had a flow of talk that was as steady as a mill, and made your head sore like the drays and wagons in a city. [5]
- It is a pity that Adam could not have gone straight out of Eden into a quartz mill, in order to understand the full force of his doom to "earn his bread by the sweat of his brow. [5]
- Had the mill owners accepted their services? [9]
- Would the mill owner speak to the boss? [9]
- After a week or two he would deposit six thousand dollars in the bank; but he was so eager to begin building the mill, that he paid over the stipulated two thousand dollars to the contractors on the very day he received the eight thousand. [11]
- There were gleams on the mill cascades below, and on the mass of the American Fall. [4]
- Suddenly he turned on me and asked me if I was 'callatin' to set up a mill. [9]
- So he spits on his hands, and goes in again with his axe, until the mill is finished, when lo! [5]
- True, not ten of these mines were yielding rock worth hauling to a mill, but everybody said, "Wait till the shaft gets down where the ledge comes in solid, and then you will see! [5]
- Blocking the end of the street, in stern contrast, was the huge Clarendon Mill with its sinister brick pillars running up the six stories between the glass. [9]
- In the middle of the Stanley Street bridge she stopped to lean against the wet rail; the mill lights were scattered, dancing points of fire over the invisible swift waters, and she raised her eyes presently to the lights themselves, seeking one unconsciously--Ditmar's! [9]
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