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Sentences ending with mills

The water from the tunnel will furnish the motive power for the mills. [5]
I can stop the strikes on the railways and in the mills. [11]
It provided for the erection of certain buildings for the University, dormitories, lecture-halls, museums, libraries, laboratories, work-shops, furnaces, and mills. [5]
A gatekeeper at the Chippering Mills! [9]
It is about the biggest thing in the way of natural picturesqueness that you'll see--outside my mills. [11]
But to this scene, where pines made a friendly background, there were added oak, ash, and hickory trees, though in less quantity on the side of the river where were Jean Jacques Barbille's house and mills. [11]
The mustard-seed shot represented milrays, the larger ones mills. [5]
Coniston decided at once that she was to marry the heir to the Brampton Mills. [9]
They are going on strike on your railways and in the mills. [11]
The little town, of fifteen thousand inhabitants or so, had a wonderful setting in the widening valley of the Scopanong, whose swiftly running waters furnished the power for the mills. [9]

Sentences containing mills two or more times

Say the mills average twenty tons of rock a day and this rock worth $50 as a general thing, and you have the actual work of our one hundred mills figured down "to a spot"--$1,000 a day each, and $30,000,000 a year in the aggregate.--Enterprise. [5]
It would be a catastrophe if John Grier's mills should stop working and Belloc's mills should go on as before. [11]

More example sentences with the word mills in them

It is all yours, Manor and mills and farms and factory--all. [11]
It's because of your concern for the welfare of your workers in the mills that I ventured to come and talk to you of how most of them live when they're at home," replied Siddons, as Janet thought, rather neatly. [9]
Something of Mr. Worthington's affairs was known: the mills, for instance, were not being run to their full capacity. [9]
And are the worst wages paid in these mills anything short of death? [9]
Tarboe pursued his work at the mills successfully; Junia saw nothing of Carnac, but she had a letter from him, and it might have been written by a man to his friend, yet with an undercurrent of sadness that troubled her. [11]
We're in competition with other mills, we're in competition with the South. [9]
When Carmen went, when Zoe fled, when his cousin Auguste Charron took his flight, when defeats at law abashed him, the house and mills, and stores and offices, and goodly trees, and well- kept yards and barns and cattle-sheds all looked the same. [11]
Years ago, just when the cotton-mills and the linen- mills were doing well, they came over with their English legislation, and made it hard going. [11]
The Whitely mills were significant of the new Bremerton, now neither village nor city, but partaking of the characteristics of both. [9]
Even in bright weather Janet felt a sense of oppression here; on dark, misty mornings the stern, huge battlements of the mills lining the farther bank were menacing indeed, bristling with projections, towers, and chimneys, flanked by heavy walls. [9]
I stood and watched the mills and the yards, and listened to the saws, and looked at the great slide, and the logs on the river: and I said ever to myself that it was all mine-- all. [11]
If Jean Jacques was not so busy with his farms and his mills and his kilns and his usury, he would see what a woman he has got. [11]
He owns this town, he's run it to suit himself, He stiffens up the owners and holds the other mills in line. [9]
I didn't expect to use it until to-night at nine o'clock, when, also for the first time, I am to light the mills by electricity; a thing that's not been attempted yet in any saw-mill on the Continent. [11]
You want them to run your mills for you, you don't want to know how they feel or how they live, and you just want me--for your pleasure. [9]
To-night I want to go up that cable and call on Mr. Boldrick again, and see the mills and the electric light, and hear your whistle, from up there. [11]
He went on to explain that he wasn't referring now to that part of the electorate known as the labour element, the men who worked with their hands in mills, factories, etc. [9]
Our Huns began to arrive, their Attilas unrecognized among them: to drive our honest Americans and Irish and Germans out of the mills by "lowering the standard of living. [9]
The heat drained through the valley back and forth in visible palpitations upon the roofs of the houses, the mills, and the vast piles of lumber: all these seemed breathing. [11]
Impossible to realize this as the force which, when distributed over the great spaces of the mills, performed an orderly and useful task! [9]
While all these things were going on, Edward Mills had been quietly making head against adversity. [5]
Young George was there, Mr. Hutchins's nephew, who was daily becoming more and more of a factor in the management of the mills, and had built the house of yellow brick that stood out so incongruously among the older Hutchinses' mansions, and marked a transition. [9]
The face of the world--the river, the mills, and the bridge--was changed, tinged with a new and unreal quality. [9]
Cars will carry the ore through the tunnel and dump it in the mills and thus do away with the present costly system of double handling and transportation by mule teams. [5]
Breakfast was on the minute, an hour in his study to attend to affairs about the place, so many hours in his office at the mills, in the president's room at the bank, vestry and charity meetings at regular intervals. [9]
The sky above the mills was sepia. [9]
For instance, it takes your woman 42 days to earn her gown, at 2 mills a day--7 weeks' work; but ours earns hers in forty days--two days _short_ of 7 weeks. [5]
Between Viking and Sunburst there was a great jealousy and rivalry; for the salmon-fishers thought that the mills, though on a tributary stream, interfered, by the sawdust spilled in the river, with the travel and spawning of the salmon. [11]
One winter's night some masked burglars forced their way into the bank, and found Edward Mills there alone. [5]
Cart-loads of solid silver bricks, as large as pigs of lead, were arriving from the mills every day, and such sights as that gave substance to the wild talk about me. [5]
Why, I could show you a dozen who worked in the mills a few years ago and are capitalists to-day. [9]
But father couldn't run the mills at a loss--could he? [9]
By rights I ought to live here, but when I started I thought I'd build my mills at Sunburst, so I pitched my tent down there. [11]
An accident, perhaps, or--" "Or some one set the mills on fire in several places at once--they say the buildings flamed out in every corner; and it was the only time in a month they hadn't been running night and day. [11]
Edward Mills had once applied to the Prisoner's Friend Society for a situation, when in dire need, but the question, "Have you been a prisoner? [5]
From a foreman of the mills he had risen, step by step, to his present position, which no one seemed able to define. [9]
But if, instead of sympathizing with the situation of his workman, he forms a combination with all the mills of his sort, and reduces wages merely to increase his gains, he is guilty of an act as worthy of indictment as the strike. [4]
Placing the number of mills in the Territory at one hundred, this gives to each the labor of producing $300,000 in bullion during the twelve months. [5]
Like most residents of Hampton who did not work in the mills, he ministered to those who did, or to those who sold merchandise to the workers, cutting their hair in his barber shop on Faber Street. [9]
He had lots of faults, and he didn't seem to understand or care much about how poor people feel, though he was kind to them in the mills. [9]
It had supporters of Barouche chiefly in the yards and mills. [11]
You've got so much sense about things--about people,--and I sometimes think you've got almost the same feeling about these mills that I have. [9]
The factories, the mills, they're full of Protes'ants and atheists and shysters; the railway office is gone to Lebanon. [11]
And the inefficient mills will all be forced to shut down. [9]
As yet the mills were all dark. [11]
Here are the mills that grind food for its hunger, and "is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? [3]
The Natchez Cotton Mills Company began operations four years ago in a two-story building of 50 x 190 feet, with 4,000 spindles and 128 looms; capital $105,000, all subscribed in the town. [5]
There are no mills as yet; no church, no newspaper. [5]
If all the mills all at once, with the thousands of stamps on the Rand reef, were to stop suddenly, and the smoke and the red flare were to die, it would be frightening in more ways than one. [11]
You didn't tell me you went through the mills with Caldwell the other day," he added, accusingly. [9]
Why, that's the man the Hutchinses let slip through,--the Hutchinses, who own the mills over there. [9]
It was he made others come with much money and build the factories and the mills. [11]
It was paper made in the mills which had belonged to Kathleen's uncle. [11]
Lands, mills, manor, lime-kilns, factories, store, all were gone, and his wife Carmen also was gone. [11]
We'll strike and keep on striking, we'll break their machinery, spoil their mills and factories, and drive them out. [9]
I can save it if I go; but, just as I am ready, my mills burn down, my treasury dries up, Kaid turns his back on me, and the toil of years is swept away in a night. [11]
A thriving place is the Good Samaritan City of the Mississippi: has a great wholesale jobbing trade; foundries, machine shops; and manufactories of wagons, carriages, and cotton-seed oil; and is shortly to have cotton mills and elevators. [5]
They say it is for a cause --the workers are striking for freedom, some day they will own the mills. [9]
There was that in the smile belonging to the old pride, which in days gone by had made him say when he looked at his domains at the Manor Cartier--his houses, his mills, his store, his buildings and his lands--"It is all mine. [11]
Boys that work in the mills, you know," continued the voice, caressingly. [9]
It'll be fifty in a couple of years, and then we'll have to scrap our machinery and turn over the trade to the South and donate our mills to the state for insane asylums. [9]
There were many Hutchinses in Elkington,--brothers and cousins and uncles and great-uncles,--and all were connected with the woollen mills. [9]
When she likened herself to the other exploited beings he drove to run his mills and fill his orders,--of whom Mr. Siddons had spoken--her resolution to leave Hampton gained such definite ascendancy that her departure seemed only a matter of hours. [9]
They're going to have a strike in the mills, and you're to get a toss into the river. [11]
You see, the hands in those big mills we have in Elkington sprang a surprise on the machine, and the first thing I knew I was nominated for the legislature. [9]
A French-Canadian who had worked in the mills of Maine and who was a red- hot socialist was the cause of it. [11]
Those mad mills had their way-- Now is mine hour. [11]
Helena has a good cotton trade; handles from forty to sixty thousand bales annually; she has a large lumber and grain commerce; has a foundry, oil mills, machine shops and wagon factories--in brief has $1,000,000 invested in manufacturing industries. [5]
The place is full of them going to the woods, besides the toughs at the mills and in the taverns. [11]
I used to feel it tremendously when I first heard the stamps pounding the quartz in the mills on the Rand. [11]
They think it's father's fault, and that he could run all the mills if he wanted to. [9]
He loved his farms, his mills and his manor, and they disappeared from his control. [11]
There were times, especially during the long winters, when life became almost unbearable for Janet, and she was seized by a desire to run away from Fillmore Street, from the mills, from Hampton itself. [9]
To relinquish his dream of power, to sink for a while into a crippled state; for he had spent large sums, and one of those periodical depressions had come in the business of the mills, and those Western investments were not looking so bright now. [9]
What could these do, what could she accomplish against the mighty power of the mills? [9]
In some great districts the Church owns all the property--lands, watercourses, woods, mills and factories. [5]
It was the day the big strike began, last spring, and I had been shopping, and started for the mills to get father to walk home with me, as I used to do. [9]
He said he could take out rock now if there were a mill to crush it--but the mills are all engaged (there are only four of them) so, if I were willing, he would suspend work until Spring. [5]
Ditmar was the Chippering Mills, and she, somehow, enlisted once again on his side. [9]
We pay four cents for a woman's stuff gown, you pay 8.4.0, which is four mills more than _double_. [5]
Baby Mills took care of his toys; Baby Benton always destroyed his in a very brief time, and then made himself so insistently disagreeable that, in order to have peace in the house, little Edward was persuaded to yield up his play-things to him. [5]
Here there was but one order,--if such it may be called,--one relationship, direct, or indirect, one necessity claiming them all--the mills. [9]
The next morning Bristol, at first over a hilly country with magnificent oak-trees,--happily not girdled, as these stately monarchs were often seen along the roads in North Carolina,--and then up Beaver Creek, a turbid stream, turning some mills. [4]
We do our best to make things right in the mills, and that's all we can do. [9]
Silver mines were being vigorously developed and silver mills erected. [5]
For example, she began to perceive that his life outside of his interest in the mills, instead of being the romance of privileged joys she had once imagined, had been almost as empty as her own, without either unity or direction. [9]
He had only been in the mills for about three months and had spent his spare time inciting well-satisfied workmen to strike. [11]
There will then be twenty mills there. [5]
All that would be splendid without the mills and the machinery and Boldrick's cable, but it would not be perfect: it needs man--Phil Boldrick and Company in the foreground. [11]
Philadelphia will never be herself again until another Robert Mills and another Lewis Wernwag have shaped her a new palladium. [6]
And what could be a more striking proof of the existence of this Providence, or a more fitting acknowledgment on his part of the Bumpus virtues, than that Janet should become the wife of the agent of the Chippering Mills? [9]
But he went back to Grenoble after the war, and became the typical public-spirited citizen; built up the mills which his own pioneer grandfather had founded, and all that. [9]
These mills here are not worth a d---n-except Clayton's--and it is not in full working trim yet. [5]
We never found any ore that would yield more than fifty dollars a ton; and as the mills charged fifty dollars a ton for working ore and extracting the silver, our pocket-money melted steadily away and none returned to take its place. [5]
If we have any more the mills will have to shut down, and these people will starve--all of 'em. [9]
Curiosity urged her, and, thanks to the eulogy she had read of him that day, to the added impression of his power conveyed by the trip through the mills, Ditmar loomed larger than ever in her consciousness. [9]
She had lived and worked beside it, and it had not existed for her, it had had no meaning, the mills might have been empty. [9]
All the roadts and mills and mines and landts shall be the beople's and be ron by the beople for the beople. [8]
Then, learning that an assault had been made on the gipsy's van by some lads who worked at mills in a neighbouring town, he pushed for their arrest, and himself made up the loss to the gipsy. [11]
It was noticeable also that though the mills were running in Manitou, there were fewer chimneys smoking, and far more men in the streets than usual. [11]

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