millstone

How To Use millstone In A Sentence

• The display will include ancient millstones, Victorian and Albert period clothing, and the Michael Cowan working miniatures.
• Millstones, if they were not adjusted properly, could strike sparks from each other.
• The urban manufacturers in Edinburgh and Glasgow usually made up their millstones from a centre-piece of indigenous rock with radial French burr segments around it.
• The story above the basement held the millstones and the "smutting" machine, for cleaning dirty wheat. Jan of the Windmill
• Unemployment was an economic millstone around the country's neck.
• Inflation is still a millstone round the neck of British businesses.
• There are countless examples of the milestone turning into a millstone as the prospect of three figures creeps closer. Times, Sunday Times
• At others, it can be a millstone around the neck. The Sun
• The Republicans clearly hope the same millstone can be hung around Kerry's neck this year.
• Philip led the way, and they entered the mill, where the warning bells were ringing to give notice that the corn was flowing down rightly; and the mill-hoppers kept on "ruttle, ruttle;" the water hissed, seethed, and rushed under their feet; the millstones rumbled round and round; and there on the top of the sacks, with which the place was half filled, sat the two great white cats belonging to the miller, fast asleep; while in Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home