But the millstonesare on the floor above," said Tom.
But there, it's all over, and you and I can go and make the dust fly and set the millstones spinning as much as we like.
There was a short consultation, and soon after the men began work, unbolting the woodwork of the sails, while others began to disconnect the millstones from the iron gearing.
But the bureau did not stand capitally there, for the back feet were higher than the front, consequent upon the floor having sunk from the weight of millstones in the middle.
The large circular millstones of Roman age worked by horse-power are usually made from slices of granite columns.
Granite and other hard stones, having but a limited use (for millstones and the like), have the best chance of survival.
Chapter 15 The Undeserving Persons and the Upper and Nether Millstones Hunter had take on three more painters that morning.
Competing employers are the upper and nether millstones which grind the workers between them.
Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
Those marks show that I've dressed millstones in my time, just as this flat right thumb tells any one who happens to notice that I began life as a miller," said her father.
Among the most impressive, to the visitor at Pompeii, are the ruins of the bakeries, with their largemillstones (Fig.
In Pompeii itself the millstones of the oldest period are of lava from Vesuvius; later it was found that the lava of Rocca Monfina was better adapted for the purpose, and millstones of that material were preferred.
Millstones from Rocca Monfina may be seen at different places in Rome, as in the Museum of the Baths of Diocletian.
From the lava millstones were made for both grain mills and oil mills, which were apparently already in extensive use in the time of Cato the Elder; he twice mentions the oil mills of Pompeii.
Small hand-mills of the lava from Vesuvius were in use at Pompeii down to 79; but the larger millstones of this material found in the bakeries had been put one side.
Economy in grinding, a friable granular substance being produced instead of a hard clinker, whereby crushers are quite abolished, and the wear and tear of millstones greatly reduced.
They went on and on and saw a mill with sevenmillstones grinding corn.
Seven millstones grind for him and yet he has not enough, but cries, 'I die of hunger.
He who had fastened millstones to his feet led the march, and they all went joyously forward, making a great noise.
The story above the basement held the millstones and the "smutting" machine, for cleaning dirty wheat.
She was her father's servant, and he kept her as close to her work as he kept his millstones to theirs.
So she went once more to the millstones with her shell.
Until in the end they were together delivered up to the millstones which thresh the immortal grain from its mortal husk.
The great millstones ground day and night, and what the world sent in as corn it got back as flour.
For in leaving her millstones she would have lost a world whose boundaries she had never touched, and a life whose sweetness she had never exhausted.
And so, when her father left her free to go, Helen lived on still in the mill of dreams, and kept her millstones grinding.
And the millstones of joy and pain, grinding dreams into bread, it seldom hears.
Yes, then she could run to her millstones and fling them her thoughts in the husk, and listen, listen while they ground them into dreams.
On the day (resumed Martin) when Helen began her lonely listening of heart and ears betwixt the seashell and the millstones of her dreams, there was not, dear Mistress Jennifer, a silver thread in her black locks to vex you with.
And she snatched the old corn from him and flung it to the millstones with her shell.
The only bed of flowering Orpine I ever saw in America was in the millyard of Miller Rose at Kettle Hole--and a really lovely expanse of bloom it was, broken only by old worn millstones which formed the doorsteps.
We settled to let the girls have the first floor, which was covered with heaps of nets, and we would pig in with the millstones on the floor above.
The first floor is pretty empty; the next is nearly full of millstones and machinery, and the one above is where the corn runs down from on to the millstones.
Others sing when the millstones are grinding; but he, hapless man, is thinking of his sin, of his offence against the Lamb.
Again silence set in, but in the distance the millstones were roaring, and the river was plashing below the two men.
They went, and sat on the embankment, in a silence broken only by the distant sound of the millstones and the plash of the onflowing river.
So the millstones grind, and so it would seem they will continue to grind until there is nothing between them; until organized property in the hands of the few on the one hand and the proletariat on the other grind face to face.
It was, in effect, a middle-class world ruled over by aristocrats; the millstones had as yet scarcely stirred.
And the maidens did so, and worked to such effect that within a short time the millstones had ground out so much salt that the weight of it began to sink the ship.
And as he looked for a way of escape, the braces of the millstones broke with the strong grinding, and fell in two.
And after the wise men had looked closely at them and read the magic letters which were cut upon their edge, they said that the millstones were precious indeed, since they would grind out of nothing anything that the miller might wish.
Other millstones grind corn, but these would grind out whatever the owner wished, if he knew how to move them.
He put the two women and the magic millstoneson a ship to go to a far-away land.
The millstones were brought in, and the women asked, "What shall we grind for you?
There is only one thing that I wish for," said the king, "and that is to make the magic millstones grind, but you cannot do that.
There at the bottom of the sea are the two millstones still grinding salt, for there is no one to say that they must grind no longer.
I would put them between the millstones or under the water-wheel!
Allen's party was joined next morning by Remember Baker, with a force nearly as large, when they completed the work of destruction by tearing down the mill, breaking the millstones past all mending, and throwing the pieces into the river.
Now millstones have to be kept rough; and as fast as they wear smooth, the miller has to “pick” out the grooves to make them rough again.
His great flat-topped grinding teeth that lie in a long straight row along each side of his jaw behind the place where the bit goes, are his millstones with which he grinds his oats and corn into meal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "millstones" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
