In windmills and watermills we see the earth's gravitation and natural or solar heat working together to perform like service.
Many of the windmills are primitive affairs, seeming sadly in need of Yankee "improvements"; but some of the new ones are admirable.
Great flapping windmills all over the country make it look as if flocks of huge sea-birds were just settling upon it.
There are said to be at least ninety-nine hundred largewindmills in Holland, with sails ranging from eighty to one hundred and twenty feet long.
The top of the paddle-boxes is buff or light yellow, and the wheels or windmills are a bright red.
It is interesting to contrast his distant views of the town of Amsterdam and the windmills of Zaandam with Rembrandt's etchings of the same subjects, and to note the greater feeling of space and distance that Whistler gives.
We passed the Greek coast trending away to the left, showing in rugged masses of mountains capped by snowy peaks, and occasionally some good sized towns were visible on the dark brown hill side, with several windmills along the beach.
Makes windmills and whirlagigs and such for young-ones to play with.
And there isn't anybody in Orham can make windmills the way you can.
Figgerin' to have him rig up windmills to drive those flyin' machines of yours, Major?
Can't you see you've got my head whirlin' like one of those windmills of yours?
There was a big windmill and several little windmills in the distance along a Dutch canal, and two or three cows in the foreground, and a peasant girl with a basket in her hand.
And then they all fell to work admiring the numberless windmills past which their train was speeding toward Rotterdam.
We left the cars and, slithering in sticky mud, made our way up a hillock on which one of these innumerable windmillsstood distinct.
Little windmills made of colored paper and stuck by means of a pin at the end of a whittled stick, make satisfactory toys.
Numerous fantastic windmills crown the heights, the summit of which is covered with vines, varied by dense patches of woodland.
Maris, Two Windmills 208 Frans Hals, Reunion of the Arquebusiers of St. Andrew.
This artist may be studied in this gallery by A Beach, two Views of a Town, The Ferry, and The Two Windmills, which latter represents two windmills standing as sentinels over a rather dreary landscape at the edge of a river and a canal.
The quaint old windmills on the hill, and the church in the village square, where the gossips gathered together, were reminiscent of the Old World life made familiar to us in our youth by means of books and pictures.
But, Master," cried Sancho Panza, "those are not giants but windmills that turn their arms with the breeze.
From a distance the heaps look as if an army of invading Saracens had pitched their tents upon the flats, and quaint windmills add a distinctly Dutch note to the scene.
The great battle with the Bowles' family and the book-grinding windmills had made poor Mr. Gilchrist really and seriously ill.
John doubtless liked counting-house work even less than he had done the study of windmills and weather in his father's fields.
The fireworks--were those overgrown wheels and gauntwindmills and gas-house the secret of the prince's self-banishment to this dreary coast?
He was assured by Gerald that, if he had been turned away, he would have slept in an outhouse, even under one of those windmills he saw in such number on the strand.
He threw his long legs about like billiard cues, while his arms flapped as do windmills in a hard gale.
They seemed to have got the conception of the cape from the arms of their own windmills (of which, by the way, there are several on the island; and their revolving arms add to the island's expression of being insecurely at sea!
In some deep polders and drained lands where the water cannot be brought to the required height at once, windmills are found at two or even three different levels.
In most parts of Europe windmillsare rapidly disappearing.
This fact was strikingly brought out some years ago when the United States Bureau of Statistics collected, through American consuls abroad, detailed information concerning the use of the windmills in foreign countries.
The importance of windmillshas also greatly declined.
Our own country is probably the only one in which the use of windmills is increasing.
So saying, he gave the spur to his steed Rocinante, heedless of the cries his squire Sancho sent after him, warning him that most certainly they were windmills and not giants he was going to attack.
There are windmills in Holland (I trust the fact need not longer be concealed) and these windmills are used for every possible mechanical purpose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "windmills" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
