mill-wheel

Mimic water was dropping off a mill-wheel under the clock.

No Thoroughfare 2007

No mistake; a sound of a mill-wheel thundering, I thought, close by, yet below me, a huge mill-wheel, yet not going steadily, but with a

Vailima Letters 2005

I squirmed up the lade among the slippery green slime till I reached the mill-wheel.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

An automaton he certainly is; a machine working independently of his control, the heart, like the mill-wheel, keeping all in motion, and the consciousness, like a person shut in the mill garret, enjoying the view out of the window and shaken by the thunder of the stones; an automaton in one corner of which a living spirit is confined: an automaton like man.

Memories and Portraits 2005

Missy, you may come with me, if you please, and sketch me at work in the mill-wheel.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

It had scarcely run six miles from its source before it touched our mill-wheel; but in that space and time it had gathered strong and copious volume.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

The carpentry of the mill-wheel had proved so very stanch and steadfast that even in that raging deluge the whole had held together.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

One of them even pointed at my mill-wheel with a witty gibe — at least, perhaps, it was wit to him — about the

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

On this account I shrank behind the shelter of the mill-wheel, and held my head in one trembling hand, and with the other drew my wind-tossed hair into small compass.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

IN THE FARMYARD, IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE, A GREAT ROUND piece of granite was set into the ground: an old mill-wheel, worn and grass-fringed.

Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002