How To Use quern In A Sentence
- We stopped at a little hut, where we saw an old woman grinding with the quern, the ancient Highland instrument, which it is said was used by the Romans, but which, being very slow in its operation, is almost entirely gone into disuse. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
- But we might remember too that the litter and discard which accompany decay are interesting in their heterogeneity: juxtapositions of fibula and quernstone, gold ring and ox scapula in sifting through the cultural rubbish tip.
- Jam vero si sermo esc in damnatis Fenelonis propositionibus de statu habituali Charitatis purae excludente motivum caeterarum virtu - tum ab exercitiQ suorum actuum 9 eisque nullum locum relinquente; quo jure extendit Auctor damnationem ad actum fluentem 9 et tran* sitorium Charitatis 9 ad quern actus Spei Tbeologicae mire disponit 9 et ex quo certior evadit futurae beatitudinis expectatio t quam secum amicissime consociat? Tractatus theologicus de charitate, in quo expenditur systema J.V. Bolgenj de amore Dei. Accedit ...
- 'It's all one where I got it from; you see the quern is a good one, and the mill-stream never freezes, that's enough.' Popular Tales from the Norse
- No quernstone from any architectural salvage yard was left unturned. Times, Sunday Times
- The foregoer of a mill was a quern, first moved by the power of water and later by the power of wind.
- Miryam sweeps the milled wheat out of her quern, pours in a new load of kernels. Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 5)
- A 19th century hand-powered barn winnowing machine using volunteers' muscle power will then separate the grain from the chaff before milling, using machines from replica Stone Age querns to a Bamford mill powered by a 1930 tractor.
- Surely the quern represents mealtimes, and with it domestic life and the family. BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
- It's all one where I got it from; you see the quern is a good one, and the mill-stream never freezes, that's enough. Folk Tales Every Child Should Know
