These men build their mills close as houses in a capital, taking no thought for the stream to turn them.
Hill with his corps was also ordered to move across the Chickamauga below Lee and Gordon's Mills and to join the line on the right.
Polk's corps was placed in line opposite Lee and Gordon's Mills on Buckner's left, with Hill on the extreme left.
He destroyed the mills at that place, with a great quantity of valuable property.
I am blowing a little, sir," answered he, "to set those mills at work.
Many of the mills are owned by my friend Jerome Dangerfield who used to purchase my dyes.
He owns half themills in New Bedford for one thing.
But the housekeeper who had served the wealthy in England and Continental Europe would have it that this intruder come of a higher social class than New Bedford mills afford.
This city should assign a sum equal to----mills of the whole tax rate to the support of the public schools.
This city should set apart----mills on the tax rate each year for building permanent roads.
It leads from the mental effects of signals or the mental fatigue in mills to the secrets of advertisements and salesmanship.
Nothing can better indicate the evolution of the Queensland sugar industry during the past forty years than a comparison between one of the first mills established in the State and one of the most modern.
Less than thirty years ago it was the belief of most of those engaged in sugar production that the work of the mills was one of extreme complexity, and that success depended upon the possession of some special secret in the working.
Although the timber area is so great, there are but few localities where saw mills could be profitably operated.
With the exception of those localities, I have seen no place upon the islands, where the available quantity of these woods is sufficient to warrant the erection of mills for their manufacture for exportation.
With a glance of veiled tenderness, the acute schemer took his fair dupe out upon the lake, while Euphrosyne directed the slow grinding of the mills of the gods.
The Major laughed as he heard the mills of the gods grinding out a golden grist of the future.
I never seen no slaves whipped, but my mother say dey had to whip her Uncle Charley Mills once for telling a story.
We live at Cedar Mills until three my children was born and then we come to the Creek Nation in 1887.
He wrote well, was graceful in manners, and of surpassing personal beauty.
The burden of all this poetry was: "Gather ye roses while ye may, cast prudence to the winds, obey your instincts.
Talking with Michelangelo in 1549--that is, twenty years after the event--Busini heard from his lips this account of the flight.
There are engines that pull trains on the railroad, and there are engines that make factories, gins, and saw-mills work.
What will you do now that the factories and mills are to be cleaner and better ventilated?
TWO MILLS Come, children, listen to the story Uncle Ned told to me.
I suppose the New York papers have had nothing to say of the strange death of Bradley Cushing, a young chemist in Goodyear who was formerly employed by the mills but had lately set up a little laboratory of his own?
Naturally all its investments are in rubber, not only in our own mills but in companies all over the world.
The reason why it is not laid down now is, because a few years ago, finding that the wind mills were not strong enough to pump it out, the government concluded to try what virtue there might be in steam.
Now, since the advantages of wind mills are so great over steam engines, in respect especially to cheapness, perhaps you will ask why steam is employed at all to turn machinery, instead of always using the wind.
Wind mills were to be seen every where, all about the horizon.
On the other side they overlooked a still wider expanse of low and level green fields, intersected every where with canals of water and avenues of trees, and with a perfect forest of wind mills in the horizon.
The wind makes the wind mills go, and the wind costs nothing.
With these wind mills they pump the water up from one drain or canal to another, till they get it high enough to run off into the sea.
There were a great many wind mills here and there along the dike.
Some of these wind millswere very small indeed; and there were two or three which looked so "cunning," as Rollo said, that he wished very much that he had one of them to take with him to America.
The approach to the town was indicated by the multitude of boats and vessels that were passing to and fro, and by the numbers of steamers and wind mills that lined respectively the margins of the water and of the land.
Thus the irregularity in the action of the wind mills in doing such work as this, is of comparatively little consequence.
Mr. George told him that he read in the guide book that there were four thousand windmills in that region.
These wind mills were very large and exceedingly picturesque in their forms, and in the manner in which they were grouped with the other buildings connected with them.
Then he bethought him of Mr. Rookley, and he reflected that if the mills of Scotland Yard, like the mills of God, ground exceedingly slowly, they ground uncommonly fine.
A law has since been made which prohibits persons under eighteen years of age from working in mills more than twelve hours a day.
Thirty years ago, the late Sir Robert Peel told the House that it was a common practice to make children of eight years of age toil in mills fifteen hours a day.
On they dashed, unopposed and unobstructed, until Buckland Mills was reached.
At the farm-houses along the road numerous wind-mills were seen.
But it nevertheless deplores the destruction of the mills and the devastation of the country recommended and insisted upon by his lordship.
Cotton reports that the destruction of the mills in the Mondego valley is being carried out systematically.
The mills in the valley of the Mondego are being effectively destroyed at last.
The very mills were to be rendered useless, bridges were to be broken down, the houses emptied of all property, which the refugees were to carry away with them from the line of invasion.
South Mills was about twenty-two miles from our outposts, and within seven miles of Elizabeth City.
After our return from South Mills there was another of what the boys called "a long spell" of quiet, the time being used up mostly by picket duty.
During December the regiment proceeded to Plymouth, and went thence on an expedition to Poster's Mills, about ten miles, destroying the mills and a large quantity of grain, and returning with various spoils.
Were there ghosts, then, in mills in broad daylight?
Down in that trading town, in the thick of its mills and drays, it could live, she thought.
The song of the picker, the hum of the spinning frame, and the whack, whack of the loom are now heard in a thousand mills in various parts of our country.
Nor did he stop here, for in 1805 he succeeded in lighting some cotton mills by the same method.
Manchester, in New Hampshire, Lawrence and Fall River, in Massachusetts, were soon dotted with great mills turning out cloth of all varieties by the million yards.
After a time lumber mills were built and the logs were sawed into planks and boards.
No mills nor factories were run by the streams; no shops made clothing or farming tools; no stores sold furniture or groceries.
The last part of the book concerned with the currents and counter-currents, the grinding of the mills of the gods and a possible modus vivendi will decidedly interest the social worker but will not concern very much the student of history.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mills" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
