Three barn owls had been taken from a windmill tank in the neighborhood in about a month.
In his letters, published in 1822, he has something to say of the Old Stone Mill: "On a skirt of this town is the foundation of a windmill erected some time in the seventeenth century.
An old windmill or two or a farm-house are picturesque objects by the way.
A single old windmillon the summit of a hill behind the town adds to its picturesqueness, and somewhat relieves the too-familiar outlines of roof and steeple.
On lifting the eye from the yellow band of road a windmill would be seen with its long arms beating the air.
The windmill was an object of the first necessity to the settlers.
He wishes to take me as a heron does a falcon with a thrust," thought Pan Michael to himself; "but I will use that windmill which I invented in Lubni.
This maxim touched Zagloba somewhat; therefore he said at once: "Every windmill thinks that the main thing is to whirl its wings.
A mouse, which was called "the miller," was trained to turn thewindmill by walking on a tread wheel, with some corn just beyond his reach!
He made a windmill and placed it on the top of his home, the wind putting it in motion.
The boy who had thought of a mouse to turn his windmill had thought out some of the sublimest things in nature, and was henceforward to rank as one of the few masterminds of science.
That evening Claude was sitting on the windmill platform, down by the barn, after a hard day's work ploughing for winter wheat.
That noon, when she saw Claude leading his team to the water tank, she hurried down to him without stopping to find her bonnet, and reached the windmill breathless.
He learned a deal more of atmospheric conditions there on his father's windmill planted farm than he could possibly have learned shut up in a studio, French fashion.
He mounted the windmill situated on the outskirts of Fleurus to survey the enemy's position.
He then galloped over to thewindmill of Bussy to meet Blücher.
Mr. Butefish had arrived among the first with the intention of opening a plumbing shop, but since the water supply was furnished by a windmill the demand for his services was not apt to be pressing for some time to come.
From whar we-all are standin' in front of the post office, we can see the Turner person roped to the windmill laig.
But him bein' twisted mental ain't no reason for not adornin' thewindmill with his remains.
In the droppin' of a sombrero they've cinched onto the professor, an' the only question left open is whether they'll string him up to the town windmill or the sign in front of the First National Bank.
Some other method, therefore, must be thought of to immortalize the new knight of the windmill and post.
There are knights of various orders, from the knight of the windmill to the knight of the post.
The invention of the windmill was a great boon to country folks because it eliminated from their always busy life one task in which labor and time were consumed.
The water thus raised empties into a large tank, built either in the windmill tower or in the garret of the house, and from the tank the water flows through pipes to the different parts of the house.
One sees dotted over the country windmills large and small, and in Holland, the country of windmills, the landowner who does not possess a windmill is poor indeed.
When once built, a windmill practically takes care of itself, except for oiling, and is an efficient and cheap domestic possession.
The windmill pumps water into the troughs where cattle drink.
These are the only means possible; even the windmill does not eliminate the necessity for the pump, but merely replaces the energy used by man in working it.
Here there was a battery of eight guns near the present Public Garden; two more, each of three guns, were planted at the top of the Saut au Matelot; another at the barricade of the Palace Gate; and another near the windmill of Mt.
Passing behind the garden of the Ursulines, they extended to a windmill on a hillock called Mt.
Between Rotherfield and Mayfield is a little hill, trim and conical as though Miss Greenaway had designed it, and perfect in deportment, for it has (as all little conical hills should have) a white windmill on its top.
The windmill stands high and white, a thing of life and radiance and delicate beauty, surrounded by grass, in communion with the heavens.
No one would paint a steam mill; a picture with a windmill can hardly be a failure.
There is probably no contrast æsthetically more to the disadvantage of the modern substitute than that of the steam mill of to-day with the windmill of yesterday.
Put here, in evidence of some old tumbled roof, a few roof beams and tiles sticking edgeways from the ground, and the low faded ochre stump of the windmill peeping over the top of the hill, and there you have Pozières.
From these Windmill Street in that neighbourhood derives its name.
Oh, Sir John, do you remember since we lay all night in the windmill in St. George's Fields?
While firing goes on, there will be a red flag on the bold edge of Windmill Hill, which at the south end of the ridge drops brokenly to the railway and the Basingstoke Canal.
These features are especially un-canal-like on the first crooked bend beyond Windmill Hill towards Aldershot.
Up the valley runs the road to Dorking, going out by Reigate Heath, where on a byway to Leigh is found the curious feature of a windmill turned into a little church.
Into a pretty corner of this county we soon pass by a conspicuous windmill and the high built spire of Shirley Church, outside which, at the east end, may be seen the tomb of Ruskin's parents, with a characteristic inscription.
Nother thing, you ain't goin' to hang nobody to the windmill ag'in nohow.
You-alls takes notice now; you don't hang nothin' to thewindmill no more.
This yere Yallerhouse gent looks disperited an' off color as to health.
The man woke with a loud cry, and found himself sailing along through the air with only the stars overhead, and the feeling of a great windmill inside him.
And behold, there were he and his wife, sailing along under the stars tied into the feather-bed together, all complete and compact; and inside him was the feeling of a great windmill going round and round and round.
Presently it seemed to the unfortunate man as if the windmill had stopped, and he was able to strike the ground with his feet once more.
Then he put his hands to his sides, and shrieked, "I feel as if a windmill were turning round inside me!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "windmill" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: chopper; gyroscope; mill; rotator
