This commission was executed by Mill one day, in public, just as Mr Wishart had ended his sermon.
Bessy merely told me that Mr. Amherst had taken up his old work in a cotton mill in the south.
He ran through the first few without knowing what he read; but presently his attention was arrested by the hand-writing of a man he had known well in college, and who had lately come into possession of a large cotton-mill in the South.
I understand you to say that major Willoughby was at the mill when you saw him last, and that this was only half an hour since?
Injin down at mill hear rifle; follow smoke--where major, den?
Another look rendered this conjecture still more improbable, as it showed the gilt edge of paper of the quality used for notes, an article equally unlikely to be found in the mill and in his own pocket.
Possibly the mill has been set in motion by some of your idlers, and you have heard the large saw, which, at a distance, may sound like a smaller one near by.
At the next instant, the men from the mill were seen rushing up to the summit of the cliff that impended over their dwellings, followed by their wives dragging children after them, making frantic gestures, indicative of alarm.
Let but the captain say the word, and I'll go to the mill and bring in a grist of them same, or l'ave my own body for toll.
A saw-mill was up, and had been at work for some time.
I learned that the slaves had been without food all day, because the man who was sent to mill could not obtain his grinding.
He came to the mill where I was at work, and asked me to examine his body, which I did, and counted twenty-six duck shot still remaining in his flesh, though the doctor had removed a number while he was laid up.
This girl was confined several days, and forced to work the mill while in a state of suffering from another cause.
His carts are made, his mill kept in order, his coopering and blacksmithing are all done by them.
There is generally one hand-mill on every plantation for the use of the slaves.
On looking out of the window, we saw the mill slowly moving in the wind, and the field gang were going out to their daily work.
The carts follow in the train, and take up the bundles--carrying the stalks to the mill to be ground, and the plants in another direction.
The corn is ground in a handmill by the slave after his task is done--generally there is but one mill on the plantation, and as but one can grind at a time, the mill is going sometimes very late at night.
Each slave must grind his own corn in a hand-mill after he has done his work at night.
At one mill $1500 was paid out for wheat in one week.
We could see the canes down in the valley, on what is now called Mill Creek, which looked like inviting grain, and thitherward we directed our course.
The settlers then had three sawmills, one flouring mill, and a threshing machine run by water, another sawmill and flour mill nearly completed, and several mills under way for the manufacture of sugar from corn stalks.
Walks were given up, with the exception of a short duty-trot each day to Knock Castle or the Mill o' Sterrin and back again.
We were approaching the narrow reach, on the banks of which Mackey's Millis situated.
The millappeared to be deserted, so we had our trouble for nothing.
A Norseman was rarely content to allow a fortunate ending to any hero, and a continuation of the story therefore makes the mill bring disaster on Mysing also.
They ground till the weight sank the ship to the bottom of the sea, where the mill is grinding still.
The firstmill had been followed by many more; then the old system appeared insufficient to Madame Desvarennes.
Desvarennes; "they want to place a resident agent at the mill on pretext of checking things.
A mill was for sale at Jouy, on the banks of the Oise; she paid ready money for it, and a few weeks later the bakery in the Rue Vivienne was independent of every one.
There was no mill nearer than the mouth of Falling Creek, twenty miles distant, and the Huguenots, having no horses, were obliged to carry their corn on their backs to the mill.
That Berkeley and Millcommitted this error will, perhaps, be granted: that modern Idealists make it will, I hope, appear more probable later.
From the dark of the millold Gabe turned to look after him again.
That was when Rome Stetson, the last but one of his name, and Jasper Lewallen, the last but one of his, put their guns down and fought with bare fists on a high ledge above old Gabe's mill one morning at daybreak.
Inside the mill Steve Marcum lay in one dark corner with a slouched hat over his face.
OLD Gabe was just starting out when Isom' reached the cabin, and the old man thought the boy had been at the mill all night.
Isom started into the mill now without a word, as usual.
I jes layed at the mill studyin', till I thought my head would bust.
In the steel mill and on the gridiron the young football star had known team work, but never such as this.
Like a mill set to grind out products by electrical power, the boy's mind went over the facts that lay before him.
More than once in the vast steel mill he had watched hot sheet steel, caught by a defective roller, curl itself into a serpent of fire, and had dodged in the nick of time.
I'd rather be plain Red Rodgers who works in a steel mill and has ambitions of his own to become a foreman or a steel tester, or something like that.
Took me out of the steel mill and taught me the things I needed most to know.
The importance of Mill Creek Valley is readily seen in the fact that the canal and the railroads have been able to avoid heavy grades by following it from Cincinnati to Hamilton.
In the valley of Mill Creek, also, "in the suburbs of Cincinnati, gravel and sand were penetrated to the depth of 120 feet below the stream before reaching rock.
His father was an attorney whose family had for generations been tenants of the old mill in Westermuehler, and his mother's family were of the local aristocracy.
While he was thinking thus, he turned his horse around and rode across the field towards a great factory, a rolling mill or a machine shop, from the many chimneys of which flames and smoke were rising.
He left the town hoping to find some tree ormill in the fields which would afford him shelter.
Though the mill no longer exists, the wind still blows.
The mill itself had been a fall no doubt; but the Whetstone pits were a great descent from that.
This mill is situated very sweetly for those who love to be outside the world.
The Tremletts were of very ancient race, said to be of Norman origin, and this mill had been theirs for generations.
There was a kind of history in those mottos that hung on the walls of the Mill House--the heart history of men who had had to think for themselves.
After an hour's rest we set out again, and near three o'clock landed at the little village of Mill Pond, some ten miles away.
At seven o'clock that evening I set out for the corner below Mill Pond, where Bony, with a horse and a buckboard, was to wait for me.
A hanging stairway climbed the face of the mill to a narrow landing under its eaves.
Near two o'clock we got out on the shore, a mile below the Mill House, and lay down with our blankets and went to sleep.
He seemed not to hear me, but continued to work his paddle in silence until we got out below the Mill House.
It was arranged, therefore, that she and my mother should close the Mill House and come to town for a week or two, so that she could take my place.
It was my last night in the Mill House for many a long year.
Near the Mill House half a mile below it began to hurry, and always I had the stir of the rapids in me.
It was Bony Squares, lately returned from a far city to his home atMill Pond.
A steam-mill had come, and morning, noon, and night one could hear the peal of its whistle.
To my great disappointment "the Pearl of great price" had left the village of Mill Pond, having gone nobody knew where.
It was thus that you looked as you came between me and the levelled guns of the soldiers at the old mill Talbot, I should now be a dead man but for you.
The wild shout of approbation which followed the proposal to bum the mill was caught up by one after another, till at last the whole band was filled with that one idea.
The two fugitives had been captured close by the mill by the band of Lopez, just as that band was approaching the spot after a weary and useless day.
To his horror the whole band had stopped, and some of them were facing toward the mill as though about to approach it.
She was a firm supporter of Mr. John Stuart Mill in the effort he made to extend to women the benefit and protection of Parliamentary representation.
And I think he means a girl from Rochester that visited the Hendricks, those mill people, summer before last.
At the door she was taken from him by the audacious mill foreman.
It was after still another dance--she had meantime floated in the arms of a mere mill foreman.
This put Anne into an unhappy mood, and they proceeded without much further talk till the mill chimneys were visible below them.
It was just at this time that the trumpet-major descended to the mill after his talk with his brother on the down.
As she neared the mill an erect figure with a blue body and white thighs descended before her from the down towards the village, and went past the mill to a stile beyond, over which she usually returned to her house.
Anne and Mrs. Loveday went to their bedrooms, and the miller entered the mill as if he were simply staying up to grind.
I don't want to alarm them, and I must not let my affairs interrupt the business connexion between the mill and the hall that has gone on for so many years.
A short sailor of the Royal Navy, who was not Bob, nor anything like him, crossed the mill court and came to the door.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mill" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
