| 单词 | mill |
| 例句 | A newspaper editor learned this lesson when he dared to criticize the Dukes’ harsh treatment of workers—including the practice of whipping children in the mill. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z She is, according to Vincent, smart and compassionate and a good businesswoman; she is a partner with her brother, Louis, in a linen mill. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z After a lunch of milled corn and salted cabbage, the exhausted children, their faces and clothes covered in coal dust, headed back to the coalface, carrying candles in the ink-black mine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I had met him a few times when we were taking some corn to the mill. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tonight I was looking at that balloon in the yard behind the sugar mill,” he said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z And just as this realization struck me, so too did the cold waters of the underground stream, and into my mind flashed an image of a mill pond, a lovely place perfect for swimming. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes from the window on a clear day Lyddie had seen them running about the mill yard playing tag or marbles. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He had been working at the mill more than eighteen years—it was all he knew how to do. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The Egyptian men and women milled about, some just sitting at their stalls, seeming awfully bored of it all. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The mill is not close to his flat, so maybe he paints it from memory, or from a photograph. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The only child of immigrant parents, orphaned at the age of twelve, self-educated, hard-working Samuel Westing saved his laborer's wages and bought a small paper mill. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw sugar mill smokestacks and homes where people put day-old tortillas on their tin roofs to dry. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z But you’ve got to have grist before you can grind; and there was no more for the new mill to do than for the old. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Luke has no memory of who dialed 911, but says there were men working in a nearby mill, and he suspects that one of them called immediately after Shawn fell. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Yes, the plowing would still go on and there’d be a crop, someone to reap it and mill it, others to eat it, and not everyone would be dead... Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The two slightly shorter sides were taller frame structures—the machine shops and repair shops—and across the whole north end of the compound was the cotton mill itself—a gigantic six-story brick building. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Karl stood in a large hall crowded with boys and girls as parents and Nazi Party members milled about. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z My father said we had no choice but to move the family to Wushi, to the south near Shanghai, where my mother’s brother owned a small flour mill. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know, George, and here it is. I was talking with Mr. Little down at the flour mill a couple weeks ago. He's heard that you are strong and can do a man’s work.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So he hadn’t been promoted regular, despite he was right smart for a mill boy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Fancy show cats yawned contemptuously at the crowds that milled around them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z This made for a rumor mill and information network of substantial sophistication. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, God makes the water, and the water makes the river, And the river turns the mill wheel and the wheel goes on forever. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z All of this happens in a factory called a “wet mill.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He longs for that time—the walk to the mill, the declaration of shared ambition, of understanding. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The blacksmith’s shop, the mill, the church, the stores, so busy and alive in daylight, were hunched, deserted now, dark piles and shapes without a purpose or a meaning. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Within two years’ time, Jeremiah had lost both his maize mill and his cows. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z “You can fish at the mill if you want to.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z They mill the corn into its different parts to be used in processed food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Organizationally unable and psychologically unprepared to challenge the rule of the Big Men, as the business leaders were known, the mill hands simply endured their lot. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In the fading twilight, a thousand people, perhaps more, milled around talking and laughing. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The baboons milled around, obviously upset by the strange creature in their sleeping place. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know if Uncle Camp heard that, but I know he heard what was said a few hours later when Hosie Roach, the mill boy, came in to ask for a job. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She reached the mill in less than an hour, but to her disappointment Charlie was not there. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The mill itself is a maze of stainless steel pipes, valves, filters, and tanks. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Gosh, what if he and a bunch of other mill boys ganged up on me. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They milled around, casting quick glances up and down the sidewalk, like they were waiting for someone, all of them so nicely dressed, wearing ties with clips on them like store clerks and bank tellers. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Day after day, week after week, month after month, the cane was cut, hauled to the mill, and fed through the rollers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z A worker at the mill lost both his mother and father. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He milled through the three levels of the Eolian, talking with everyone, young and old, musician and not. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The mill starch can be used in animal feed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Three months earlier, two young white girls who lived nearby in Alcolu, a small mill town where the races were separated by railroad tracks, had gone out to pick flowers and never returned home. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It’s pretty, but more so is a working water mill right across the road. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Dawn had burst forth in all her glory, and Gladers milled about, readying for the day. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It sat beside the river next to the mill, but the coolness of the Sogozha’s waters couldn’t make a dent in the stifling heat the forges inside breathed out. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I had been to the mill not long before and received a tour from a Gamesa PR man. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Everyone knew that the family who owned the sugar mill were eccentric “Arabs,” Haitians of Lebanese or Palestinian descent whose family had been in the country for generations. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Hundreds of migrants mill around in the courtyard. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Luckily, I was allowed to visit a smaller mill at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z As mothers appeared on porches one by one throughout the mill village, calling their children’s names, C.P. reluctantly wandered home, dusk descending, the pale yellow lamplights sputtering on in houses as he passed. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z No real mill would have looked exactly like this. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Here, in the summer of 1882, it is as if they are standing by the mill once again, the ground beneath them solid, at least for now. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Beyond that milled a tribe of two-headed men dressed in rags and blankets like homeless guys, armed with a haphazard collection of slings, clubs and metal pipes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The traffic thins, and a few teachers mill around the doors. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He had moved his young family to Durham in 1927, when C.P. was only a few months old, from a small town nearby when the mill there had closed. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Hundreds of kids milled around, talking, laughing, and inspecting the winning entries. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z She claimed it took water from her cascade and plumping mill. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z While the inmates milled around, waiting their turn at the window, I got the package room officers to let me inside, where I sat in a comfortable chair. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time Catelyn's party reached the mill, the man was long gone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A typical Southern mill village, like the one in which C.P. grew up. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I grin as I always do when I start up the mill. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But a plumping mill was not a good perch. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I took that great sack, but the mill wasn’t turning. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z New gouges raked across the hillside behind the mill ruins. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z By five the girls had crowded through the main gate, josded their way up the outside staircase on the far end of the mill, cleaned their machines, and stood waiting for the workday to begin. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z From the cedar stock he found there—long, tight-grained, straight sections cut from massive, ancient trees—he could mill elegant planks of wood twenty inches or more wide and sixty feet long. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The following day they crossed the river by a narrow iron bridge and entered an old mill town. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Though Babi worked at Silo, Kabul’s gigantic bread factory, where he labored amid the heat and the humming machinery stoking the massive ovens and mill grains all day, he was a university-educated man. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Home was about ten miles southeast of the old mill. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z At the lumber mill they chop up trees that end up getting turned into furniture and houses. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It flashed from the woodwork and the walls; it smote him with an awful, total power, as if generated by a vast mill. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z They went down the long dark wall of the mill, the windows bricked up. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Leon studied the mill house, the oven, and the stone table. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z But one night he working late at the Scanlon-Taylor mill, lugging two-by-fours to the truck, splinters slicing all the way through the glove. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The mill kept half the flour, and the other part was our share. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The fish bones crackled and snapped in his mouth like dry corn in a mill. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The driver opens a valve in the belly of the truck and a golden stream of grain begins to flow down a chute into the bowels of the mill. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z At the mill, Papa says they take the sawdust and turn that into paper. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z At the fence, we watched the cattle mill around, stirring up dust and knocking into the wood. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z It seemed that every tree in it was accounted for, and that not one grain of sawdust from our mill went unused. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He stopped the ball mill, washed out the color gun and filled it with blue mass. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The cattle went about the business of feeding, while a few goats milled among them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Hazy figures of at least eight people mill about the room, none of them small enough to be him. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Well- dressed people milled around, nearly a third carrying some sort of musical instrument or another. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z To follow the industrial food chain, I had to follow the river of corn through a wet mill. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He had not sensed her presence for hours when he reached the river in front of the mill in the afternoon. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She watched the gaping mouth of the mill swallow up his small form. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z There, the mere threat of hiring blacks was usually enough to keep mill hands in line. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Hundreds of avatars milled around like ants crawling around the inside of a giant balloon. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Mr. Winston, who worked in the mill with Mr. Spencer, added, “Now I know ’bout stingy. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z And Mr. Kearney who milled the town’s wheat and who always spoke softly and who made wooden toys for each Prentisstown boy’s birthday. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z They’d left Pax at the head of the access road that led to the ruins of an old rope mill. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Bad as he wanted to leave the mill and amount to something, Hosie would be equal to ten of Uncle Camp plus maybe two of me, and Grandpa would respect him. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z This is the pledge they made on their walk to the mill. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They stayed warm all the way to the textile mill in Brunswick, with the wind at their backs and the heat under the robes. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The Dauntless mill around the glass room, talking in clusters. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “There’s a miller in Rensselaerville who knows how to convert a water mill to electricity.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When I wasn’t at the mill, I knew that I was needed on our farm. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The gorge beside the mill would be too dangerous to navigate in the dark, so he’d sleep there, then make the descent at dawn. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Below, I see a smattering of ghost-shrimp Collective mill around the empty room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It wasn't so common in Marshall, but I had picked it up from mill workers and farm workers that were Mexican. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z While most of Nergal's demons milled around warily, one skittered into attack mode. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z In the early days, mill owners greeted workers by their first name each morning, inquiring about the health of children, who might also be known by name. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “I guess you want to go to the mill, with a lot of fellows splashing and scaring all the fish away.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was rescued out of a puppy mill,” said Scruffy. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The mill owners sold their holdings and left the island behind. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Come to the mill in the morning. I’ll see what I can do. But I don’t think that you’ll like it.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I said, “I got to be checking at the mill and collecting for my cotton. Been nice seeing you. Welcome back.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was born in the shadow of that sugar mill,” Guy said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z As they conquered lands around the Mediterranean Sea, they spread word of how to grow, mill, and refine the sweet reed. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The clay and snow were churned into a muddy trench along the gate where the cattle had milled around, pushing their bony heads against the juniper poles, working for another escape. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The temporary general superintendent sent down by the steel mill in Youngstown was a man named Fuller. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z To make sure she kept this job longer than her stints at the hosiery mill, or as a waitress at the Waffle House. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z There was no money for wood, but my father, he hauled slab ends from the scrap pile at the mill. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you mind too much going to the mill?” she asked. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The mill is shut down and the owners have moved on. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Charged with picketing for better hours and working conditions at a cotton mill in Newnan, Georgia, sixteen women and one hundred and twelve men were imprisoned. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z With some of that new land in cotton, we had some extra to take to the mill. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She gained altitude, maneuvered, and steered through the trees to the mill house. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z At the ridgeline above the mill, he stopped. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Our mill houses were a long sight better than in lots of places, but they looked more like repeating blobs of white than homes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Since reading about the old days keeps my mind off Frightful, I flip to last summer and the days when we were building the dam and water mill. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z You have to grind at the lord’s mill unless it’s broken a day and a night. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “So you want to work in the mill, hunh?” he asked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, it would take Mama and Papa a month to convince folks that, no, I wasn’t at the trestle with a mill girl. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z With only a couple of hours of walking ahead of me, and it being hours before dawn, I take time out to look at the mill. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z That tells me this is a gristmill, not a sawmill, and it tells me the mill is old. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I asked to leave Pax on that old mill road because it would be safe, he knew.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Across the street from the school stretched acres of cotton fields, the raw material for Monroe’s mill and the source of income for many county residents. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z With the profits from this activity I built a saw mill, and then a store to go along with the tavern, and then I joined with some other men to found a bank. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hurry! He went around the mill. Head him off. He mustn’t escape.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Who is the shadow figure walking past the mill? Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Servants mill around, collecting the pieces in velveteen boxes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z All pepper when purchased was ground in a tiny pepper mill. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Drover’s Lot, up Hillside. Quarter mile past the mill on Green Street.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The mill owner changed my birthday on a piece of paper. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He waited for Sam to say something, realized he was overwhelmed, and hurried off to the mill house. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z If it was hot, we’d go for a swim in the mill stream, or climb the trees up in his woodlot. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I slip out of the dining room and into the gathering area, falling back to where the ladies mill about, waiting for their escorts. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The mills and cattle were also given to Jeremiah, but the following year, Musaiwale, the oldest brother, forcefully took one mill and half the cows. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z At night, Erwin pedaled his bicycle through the mill village enforcing a 10 P.M. “lights-out” rule. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z An immense chimney, relic of a disused mill, reared up, shadowy and ominous. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Only Sam was watching, and he was inside the mill house. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z At the center of the feedlot stands the feed mill. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z From there, he sighted the advantage he needed: midway down from the mill walls, where the field began to flatten out, a purple granite slab shouldered out of the ground. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z On the dining table, there is a pepper mill, a saltcellar, bright, clear-skinned clementines arranged in a bowl. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Don stayed behind in Anacortes, lodging with family friends and eventually finding work in a lumber mill. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The crank stiffened as if it were attached to a mill stone instead of a wooden bucket. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the meantime my days are duller than a lifetime as a mill girl endlessly loading shuttles—nothing to do but suck on my cold fingers, like Jamie in the North Sea, and worry. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Yes, and hold and kiss a lonely mill girl. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They hadn’t spoken since they left the mill. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z It was an easy step to the proposition: as a clockmaker or millwright is to a clock or mill, so is God to Nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Finals of schoolboy sports, dog racing, strange little competitions in the remoter counties, all these are grist to our hungry mill. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But the biggest clutch of admiring onlookers milled around something at the far end of the tent. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The cascade that ran her mill was now underwater. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “And if you leave without an honorable discharge,” the clerk had said, “not only will you never work at the Concord Corporation again, but no other mill in Lowell will ever engage you.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z A million pounds of feed pass through the mill each day. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Belly to the ground, he made his way across the ridge to a spot above the old mill. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She added some pepper to her chowder and offered me the mill. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z I kneeled down by the plumping mill and studied it. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was talking, but no sound came from his mouth; searchers milled curiously in the snowy background, raising on tiptoe to jeer silently at the camera. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I rise and go to the door of the mill and hurl the knife into the darkness. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “Where did you learn about a plumping mill?” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When times were good at “the mill,” as everyone called it, I’m pretty sure that many of the men who drew their paychecks from U.S. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The mill towns, with all respect, are knots of worms. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He salvages the inferior Soviet equipment, milled from marginal steel, clumsily soldered; it’s all so unsystematic. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z This map from the 1600s shows boats coming to and fro, as well as the kind of sugar mill that was run by enslaved Africans. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He knows exactly what to say to each Democratic senator to make them dish about bills, exactly when Zahra’s running low on nicotine gum, exactly which look to give Nora for the rumor mill. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z A certain mill foreman and an old black woman. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The mill boys were always picking fights with town boys—tripping us up or calling us names. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He disappeared into the mill for a second, then came out with a sack of flour over one shoulder. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Parents and friends milled around the cafeteria, waiting for the ceremony to start. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I didn’t say it was a naked mill girl. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I could hear the Great American Gelding snoring away like a planing mill. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “It would bring the railroad closer to the river and the mill.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Get you a railroad” and “Get you a cotton mill” was what big businessmen in Atlanta advised any town that wanted to grow. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z So in 1847, the Stantons moved to Seneca Falls, a small mill town in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, where Elizabeth’s sister Tryphena and brother-in-law Edward Bayard lived. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The dogs milled around, straining at their tethers, snapping and snarling at one another. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z White-clad mess-hall workers mill around the steam tables, walk back and forth wiping off the tables with rags, tie up bags of garbage, and mop up spills. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There Ernest installed the new magnet, its pole faces specially milled to accommodate a new vacuum tank twenty-seven inches in diameter. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At other times a cheery fellow, the doorman often complained bitterly about having been fired from his job of twenty years in the Westing paper mill. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z He paints it showing a path that ends at the fence surrounding the mill. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The cattle pens, filled with animals and their waste, are built around a corn mill. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A pack of white timber wolves milled around their feet, and many of the girls had hunting falcons on their arms. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z If a townsman suspected that the local miller was cheating him, he could take his flour to another mill. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z He angles his head against the window and watches the autumnal landscape pass: the spewing pink and purple waters of a dye mill, electrical power stations, a big ball-shaped water tank covered with rust. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The school’s wet mill is part of something called the Center for Crops Utilization Research. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In the secret history of First Families—an insular gossip mill sworn to absolute discretion about most things on pain of death—there’s no definite answer for who wrote it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Mealtime portions in the farm’s cafeteria were no larger than at the cement factory, the textile mill, or the mines. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Grandpa had sense enough to know the reason Hosie hadn’t graduated was that he worked a lot at the cotton mill and couldn’t get to school regular. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z That night, as the Apollo 11 spacecraft continued on its journey back to Earth, Uncle D came home from school and work at the mill. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z By 1866, the mill owners had learned how to break down cornstarch into a kind of sugar called glucose. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z You could follow a sack from a farm in Iowa to the mill in Manhattan, where it was ground into meal, or to the dairy in Brooklyn, where it was fed to a cow. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Several boys milled about the Glade that night, but for the most part it was quiet, like everyone just wanted to go to sleep, end the day and be done with it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z You had no choice but to have the sugar mill right there, and sugar mills require a wide range of occupations. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She could tell that he was also watching the hot-air balloon behind the sugar mill fence out of the corner of his eye. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Cutting cane was hard work, but it was nothing like what came next: Piles of freshly cut cane had to be fed into the ever-turning mill wheels, until they were completely crushed. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I jump down the rock staircase, pausing on ledges to look for signs of her camp, and come upon the ruins of an old mill. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The other side of the mill was completely dark. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z In fact, most of the improvements dribbled out by mill owners over the years were really meant to prevent unions from taking hold in the South. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Starting at my grandfather’s mill, I told everything that had happened. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He said that on December 3 he was in the Rising Sun Tavern, not far from the flour mill, collecting intelligence from Philadelphia agents. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The normal ruckus had been replaced by a rustling quiet—and rather than mill about, the competitors lingered by their trainers’ sides. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Sometimes, if lumber prices was too low, the mill would shut down for a few weeks. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And the mill was probably four or five miles south of where he was right now. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The sheep nosed open their stall door and milled around the barn, bleating. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z I explained to Mr. Loomis why I had not planned to grow wheat—that is, that I had no way to mill it for flour. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z People milled about between stands selling fishing gear and food. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z ‘Even if we have to give up the house and move down in mill town,’ their Mama said. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z After the soak, the swollen kernels are ground in a mill. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He saw something red that turned over slowly as a mill wheel. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Many a time I had wished that my parents were workers in a textile mill and that we were poor. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Most mill children went to school just two or three years, then dropped out to work at the spindles. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Within moments, a herd of jockeys packed into a room at the mill and showered $5 worth of nickels and dimes on the girl in question. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z That he would make sure that he was the last one to work in a mill. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z “Her little cup,” the mother was explaining, smiling apologetically at the waitress, who was thunderstruck at the thought that the mill’s good country milk was not rich enough for the little girl. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z To the west, passing a lumber mill teepee burner whose tip glowed red, was an orchard valley along the Rio Grande. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z White and African police and members of the Special Branch milled around, taking photographs, writing in notebooks, and trying unsuccessfully to intimidate the delegates. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We milled around behind the starting blocks, nervous, shaking out our arms and legs, everything as quiet as if the coach had already said, “Ready.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Tug knowed Petey walked home from sweeping a pile of dust from one end of the mill to the other every day. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z The mill whistles blew for the first shift. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Before Lightfoot, I had a healthy disrespect for all mill children. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She seemed to mill it over, and then stated it all as a matter of fact. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He was head and shoulders smarter than the run of the mill, and after he’d watched the sun and moon and stars fer a long time he set down and he done some figgerin’. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “You want to know something else about your Jake Mosby? His daddy owns about twenty percent of the steel mill that owns us. He’s got more money than Carter’s got little liver pills.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “She found a diagram of a plumping mill in one of her books, and I copied it down on paper then made it— come here—I’ll show you.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, the owners held a far more positive view of mill life and of their own role in the world of their making. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z And from above the mill, an answering bark. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z And Vincent barely mentions it in his letters to Theo, even though he often does write about the mill, and their walk to it. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Near the sugar mill was a large television screen in an iron grill cage that the government had installed so that the shantytown dwellers could watch the state-sponsored news at eight o’clock every night. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Hundreds of people mill around, running, trailing children and baggage, waiting in lines. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Matter of fact, some years later, I think in the 1930s, the mill caught fire and burned down. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Ready to defend their community, they grabbed their shotguns and drove to the pond near the mill. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Hundreds of migrants, mostly men, mill about the large courtyard of the yellow church with orange trim. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Courtiers mill in and out of an adjacent tea salon, loitering until the ceremony begins. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “You drive the truck there. Fifteen minutes down the interstate, and you’re home free. Lily will go ahead and make sure everything at the mill is clear. You guys unload the cigarettes and...” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Dashing back into the mill he ran out with a horn and blew it loudly. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z There is a sign on the mill, next to the door, milk for sale. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Robert and Thomas and the priest, whispering paternosters, followed the prints all the way to the mill where, crossing themselves, they unlatched the door. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Firing meant not only the loss of a job but the loss of housing, too, since most workers lived in mill villages. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “A plumping mill is a mechanical device run by water power. It lifts a hammer and drops it.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z However little he paid, it would be more than Hosie made at the mill. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They mill about the holographic magic of Sagan, sucking down tonic from the rainbow waterfall after the news they’re going to spend the rest of their lives on this ship. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Like I said, slower than a mill wheel, those two are. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z To mill so close together is in the nature of turkeys in the evening. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z When they got to the Sedillo fence, they dismounted and walked along a thirty-foot section where the tracks crisscrossed and the cattle had milled around before they broke through the fence. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The man who did was Mr. Sheffield, president of the mill. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z There were heaps of milled corn and steaming vats of cabbage soup. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “I got a few hours’ work for tomorrow at the sugar mill,” Guy said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z After my father’s death my brother abandoned his schooling and began to work in the jute mill he would eventually manage, in order to keep the household running. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The water mill was begun soon after the plumping mill. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z People mill in a little crowd on the other side, waiting, but there will be no buying or selling today. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z There are many places to stand and paint the mill from different angles. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Given the power of the mill owners, it is not surprising that unionization efforts were, in the words of one knowledgeable commentator, “mere foam before passing gusts.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z With this ox he could plough his fields and cultivate them and with this ox tied to his mill he could grind the grain. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He followed her as she circled the sugar mill, leading to their favorite spot under a watch light. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z There were a few other people I couldn’t stand, like Hosie Roach, the mill boy in my class at school. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Little kids play outside, kicking up dust while their parents mill around, faces drawn and blank, fear in their eyes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I stuff the pamphlet under a stone in the corner of the mill, thinking as I do so that it is good Alice has gone off on her own. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the boys could take them to the mill and then on to the village, he said. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z That night, we sneak into a mill that is lying quiet for the evening. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “Sam, the first lesson is how to convert a water mill to electricity. Let’s make electricity when we finish the mill.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The Klansmen were the descendants of failed farmers and broken mill hands just like himself. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Families sat crowded on the hot little porches, cotton lint from twelve hours in the mill still clinging to their hair and overalls and dresses. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I’d always thought of her as bounding along like a young mountain goat, but now she looked like any other mill hand. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They huddled over new equipment on the south edge of the mill, where two thick walls met. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I also didn’t want to see Hosie Roach, a snot-nosed twenty-one-year-old mill boy in my class who stunk like a polecat and had tow-colored hair so thick and tangled it looked like a cootie stable. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Their walk to the mill, the pledge they made, their intimate bond. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z When they had finished their meal with the delicious strawberries, Sam got deer hide from the mill house and cut off long strips for Alice. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Last night he had dreamed himself back in the mill again, on his knees dressing the dead. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Many of them sat languidly along the benches or milled in the aisles discussing the trial in hushed and speculative tones. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Company books preserved in the Island County historical archives record that in 1907 eighteen Japanese were injured or maimed at the Port Jefferson mill. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Sam was opening the mill sluice to start the waterwheel for Bando, now a busy father. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Let’s go to the mill and go swimming,” the third said. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z We saw a few mill people near the tracks, picking blackberries into lard buckets, and a whole family of colored people. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z A theater nearby was just emptying, and crowds milled around the lighted foyer, calling for cabs, wrapping coats around their shoulders. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The first German residents of this town with no creek and no mill actually settled here during World War I, when Hate the Hun campaigns were heating up in other, more populated regions of America. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z His little ball mill rolled over and over; mixing the blue mass. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z As darkness set in, crowds began to grow and mill about, many people curious to see what the city would be like with almost no police presence. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She went to a flour mill for flour sacks, bleached them, and made them into dish towels that she sold around town. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z My sisters moved around, prodding and testing the moonlit path with each footstep as they milled around. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The kids in the street who had heard the doors thrown open piled in and milled around Francie who had already reached the counter. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z About riding to the mill behind Gluglu; fishing back in the lake with their Uncle Jasper; picking pecans with Lidie’s little black brood, and hauling chips in their express wagon. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z Putting on his hat and taking the corn bread with him, he headed out for the three-mile walk to the mill, where, Stella knew, he’d be lifting logs and sweeping sawdust all day long. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z There was a dam there for the mill, and below the dam a couple of hundred yards was a large pool. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Within a week the ship jumpers possessed mill jobs—stacking lumber, sweeping sawdust, hauling slab wood, oiling machines—worth eleven cents an hour. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z His father worked at the Fairfield Works, a steel mill in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He kept telling me a long story about a mill in South Orgoreyn where he had worked, and how he had got into trouble with an overseer. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Being as Mr. Sheffield owned the cotton mill, I thought she might like to see where some of his money went. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I had forgotten all about her mill in the excitement of building the dam and sawmill. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing else, except the mill itself, was recognizable. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Samantha,” Sam finally said as his friend of the forest and wilderness left the mill house, carrying on his head the exquisite wild-cherry rocking chair he had been working on for eight months. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I was at the mill at dawn the next morning and saw men lifting huge logs with tackle blocks. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, God makes the water, and the water makes the river, And the river turns the mill wheel and the wheel goes on forever. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z By nightfall a green pine coffin stood on two sawhorses in the bay window of the front room, and people milled in the yard. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z My time with granddaddy slipped away as the domestic mill wheel gathered momentum, grinding its principal raw material—namely, me—into smaller and smaller scraps. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z So, I stayed on and kept working at the mill. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z These plans come to nothing, but alterations are made to the mill around now. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z One morning, while having breakfast, Mama said to Papa, “I’m almost out of corn meal. Do you think you can go to the mill today?” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The men drank and the boys milled about, all speculating as to how many commissions would be assigned. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The sugar mill workers sat in the front row in chairs or on old buckets. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The Ohio steel mill had received a big order and needed coal, lots of it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Although they are both ill, they are on the same path together, their dreams shared, just as they had imagined they would be when they were young men on that walk to the mill. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z On the weekends when he was allowed to leave his boarding school, he would visit the three Mora sisters in their old mill to study various occult sciences. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He told her that after all it was nothing; that he had learned that a lot of husbands had been “through the mill.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Even at night, that train made whistle-stops in places where there was nothing but farms or a small mill. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Four Dauntless traitors mill around in one corner, and two of the Erudite, one a dark-skinned woman, one an older man, both wearing lab coats, stand with Jeanine near the metal table in the center. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I was a good worker and seemed like if the mill needed anybody, they kept me on. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You're not driving yet, so you don’t exactly need a parking spot. And it’s hard to give you a bonus when you’re not even working at the mill.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Let’s go to the mill and go swimming,” the third said. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z At first, there was at least the possibility for advancement in the mill, but over time Southern businessmen began sending their sons to Northern colleges where they learned all the latest management techniques. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I nearly swooned in the mill and flow of Stanleyville—people, cars, animals in the street, the austere gaze of windows in the tall concrete buildings. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In that same letter, he said his dad worked at a paper mill. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z As the flame flares up, my heart thumps like a plumping mill. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She said Grandpa was crazy to think town folks would accept a mill boy in the store. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “You were at the mill, and they were walking up the creek, of all things.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z That makes a white mush of protein and starch called “mill starch.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We set down outside of Marshall because they was taking on workers at the new lumber mill. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z From the shade of a doorway, the father of the family watched us mill around with a tolerant smile. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Some look to be as old as the mill. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I get well enough, when I can walk farther, we can learn how to mill it. The important thing is not to let the species die out.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She and her husband owned a flour mill and promised that Jadzia would never go hungry. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z He’d work a few months in the mill, then come to classes a few months. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Exclusion Authority bureaucrats mill around on their phones amid a heavy presence of armed Exclusion Guards. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z One day Mars Bar would lead Maniac down the river, down the tracks, past the railroad gondolas, each with its mountain of coal, to the rolling mill at the steel plant where his father worked. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of us worked at the lumber mill. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Before long, workers were simply born into mill life and very few escaped it. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A group of boys milled around outside, glancing anxiously at the upper windows as if expecting a hideous beast to leap out in an explosion of glass and wood. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I filled up a bucket at the pump off the side of the mill and brought it back. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So it might be a mill or a feed store that sponsored a team. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now, Will,” she whispered, “be sure and write down about you and that mill girl.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z That kept me at his mill and out of the army. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Four mentioned how the mill upriver had disrupted fishing. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z In Brazil, when word came that the harvest was about to begin, a priest came to bless the mill—and the workers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He’d heard the mill men tell how the two halves, not even fitted together, were placed cut side down, skin side up, in the coffin. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The stars were circling the peaks of the mountains, dipping into the cane fields belonging to the sugar mill. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Some neighbor girls in the old mill village had played with those same grass dolls. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Town people thought you couldn’t be too careful when it was a question of your children hobnobbing with mill folks. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z And jogging up with a pair of shovels was Mr. Jamison, the owner of the lumber mill. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z After finishing high school, Dandy went to work at a lumber mill, knowing that if he stayed in Georgetown, his options would never widen. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z A block from where Lourdes grew up, children gather on a large pile of sawdust left by a lumber mill. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z At last, Narcissa hurried up a street named Spinner’s End, over which the towering mill chimney seemed to hover like a giant admonitory finger. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Taking his wife’s hand, Guy said, “Let’s go to the sugar mill.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z One of the views, from a faraway perspective, shows spring in Paris: full of light and color, a palette bright with green grass, blue sky, the French flag flying atop the mill. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I’d dropped into the millrace, the ditch where the river water ran to turn the mill’s wheels. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I know that because we had to mill some boards for the floor of that general’s open tent. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s go to the mill and go swimming,” the third said. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He got a job at Mutare Board and Paper Mills, the biggest paper mill in Zimbabwe, which was how he wound up at Chisamba Singles. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z A young man who had worked at the dye vats in a mill claimed suddenly that a great holy power had come in him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The locations were changed but the settings were alike—a strip of wasteland bordered by rows of rotted shacks, and somewhere near a mill, a cotton gin, or a bottling plant. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z They see a sign in the window of the mill: milk for sale, one cent a glass, and also fried eels. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Hearing the men draw closer, I leaped up and scrambled around the corner of the mill. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I ran the only way open to me, toward the mill. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Inside the noisy mill the men could hear plainly every word that was spoken, but for the first hour outside they were deaf. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z While the boy ran around, she found her husband sitting in his favorite spot behind the sugar mill. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Across the river, beyond the place where the trout and the bass were plentiful but before the river went underground heading for the mill, the bank turned around an incline. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Oldham did admit that activists had forced some needed changes, but the former cotton mill manager immediately added huffily that “this could have been done solely by negotiation, without the picketing.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The old wooden structure had been empty of mules since Mr. Carter had sold the company to the steel mill. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A certain piece-worker claimed that he had worked with the mute at another mill somewhere else in the state—and the tales he told were unique. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z OK, God makes the water, and the water makes the river, And the river turns the mill wheel and the wheel runs on forever. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Ferris also commanded a legion of inspectors who evaluated the quality of each component as it emerged from each mill. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I was by the mill just last week.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Wagons and dressing tents fill the back end, but the people who are left mill about aimlessly or sit idly in the shade. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I walk around the mill again then go to the front door, certain I’m going to be disappointed, for I have not seen a person or heard the wheel turn since I arrived. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys and girls were about my age, and were as thick as flies around a sorghum mill. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Folks were out and about on the streets below; they milled about like tiny, fancy ants. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z And Gospodin Melnik used it to grind his flour faster, blasting air magic past small stiff sails he had rigged to his mill. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Beryl was back to work at the mill in Ladderal the next day. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Naked white South African tennis players milled around the locker room, getting ready for matches or about to shower. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “It's a textile mill. These days we mostly make, uh, tampon strings.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z He circled the outcrop, climbing closer to the mill than he liked, to come at her from above. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z In a shed attached to the mill sit vats of liquid vitamins. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z People milled out in the hallway, talking and laughing, no one paying attention to us. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Looking at me, he said, “Shell a sack of com. Take one of the mules and go to the mill for your mother.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The crowd yelled, milled, surging so close that I could barely lift my arm to land a blow. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z On the rare occasions that they ventured out of their neighborhoods, mill hands were immediately recognizable by their deathly white pallor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Having worked in the mill for a while, I had saved some money. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As they mill about, a rumor circulates: a train is leaving at 10 A.M. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “I went down to the mill yesterday,” I said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z From the field behind the sugar mill a group of workers were watching the balloon floating in the air. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Atop the mill house, Oksi turned her head almost all .the way around in one direction and then the other. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z In the ready room, the pilots of 367 milled around the room or fidgeted in their seats. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside in front of the station the stream roars alongside the street, it rushes foaming from the sluices of the mill bridge. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z They had an extremely thoughtful and helpful entry created by a user named skunkbutt: “A Paper Town is a town that’s got a paper mill in it.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z She’ll never be strong enough again to work in a mill thirteen, fourteen hours a day. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Markets in the city were booming with abundant supplies of dried, fresh, and processed foods, including milled rice, tofu, crackers, cakes, and meat. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He was a bit older than me, but I had talked to him a few times at the cotton mill, before he left for the army. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They milled about in the roadway, dancing in pain as myriads of maddened hornets attacked furiously. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The steel mill was off to our right, just a couple of miles north. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z How many mill towns saw their mills close; how many shoe towns saw the shoe industry move elsewhere; how many towns that were once textile powerhouses now buy all their linens from China? The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z And if Mama and them found out it was a mill girl, I’d be hard put to explain it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z C.P.’s father, Paul Ellis, had gone to work as a mill hand when he dropped out of school in the fourth grade. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The wet mill is like a giant steel beast, with a maze of pipes and machines inside. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Right by the front door, right next to the stupid front door, in the best parking spot in the whole paper mill, my father’s car was parked. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Shadow took the quarter he had used for the coin-toss from the table, enjoying the sensation of a freshly milled coin against his fingers, producing it in his right hand between forefinger and thumb. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The children milled about angrily and raised their voices in one steady, monotonous shrieking which continued unabated for five minutes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking for Miss Love and Grandpa, I saw some mill people and wondered if Lightfoot was there. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The park was the site of an old sawmill, now abandoned, but the outer walls of the mill building still stood, square, like a fort, in the middle of the field. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Dashing out through the rain, Sam entered the mill house and picked up a box he had made with boards Bando had cut for his furniture and discarded. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Napoleon himself, attended by his dogs and his cockerel, came down to inspect the completed work; he personally congratulated the animals on their achievement, and announced that the mill would be named Napoleon Mill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I even told him about “this mill girl I know at school” who was picking blackberries near the trestle and helped me off the tracks. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Soon he entered one of the mill districts bordering the river. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Paul Ellis toiled on the night shift at the mill and painted houses during the day in a vain effort to raise his family a notch or two. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The reporters milled about and argued over seats for a brief time, then finally settled down. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Later we walk home, glancing back to see the great carloads of slag being dumped, red hot and smoking, into the ravine that skirts the steel mill. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z A few students milled about in the rock garden, but there were no Executives in sight. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Twisting around, I saw an arrow embedded in the timbers of the mill. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z If a worker fell ill, the mill boss would often pay the doctor’s bill. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The atmosphere was so still that the smoke from a mill in the district went up in a straight, unbroken line. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The kind white folks tell when the mill closes down and they’re looking for a little comfort somewhere. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “He’s been through the mill, this one,” she said. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The Housing Authority was headed by a former cotton mill executive named Carvie Oldham, who ran public housing with the same autocratic and ruthless style that had marked his tenure in the mill. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z After all, every society in Eurasia eventually employed pottery wheels and mill wheels. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “What I was thinking about was not a mill, but electricity. If I could build that dam up a few feet higher—there’s a good flow of water. It could run a small generator.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I figured the guy with the tie must be Mr. Big Bucks Ballard, the jerk who didn’t know how to run the paper mill as well as my father and Ernie Eco could blindfolded. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Oh, God makes the water, and the water makes the river, And the river turns the mill wheel and the wheel goes on forever. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z There’s no way to retrace our steps, the mill wheel’s turning — For God made the water, and the water makes the river, And the river turns the mill wheel and the wheel goes on forever. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “A mill girl came in the store today to buy some black goods for a dress. Said her daddy died. She ast if I knew you.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The shrews broke cover and milled about noisily with their endless questions. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z A crowd of students still milled about on the front lawn of campus, but Reg had wanted to give himself extra time to get inside, just in case he needed it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z They brought the soapstones in to hotten by the mill’s coal stove and loaded up the sled with bolts of cloth wrapped in brown paper. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z There is just moonlight now, in the mill, and the musty smell of rotted grain hangs in the air. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He talked about the time when he had to go to the mill three times a day to see if there was any work for him. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z A few lucky men got jobs at the lumber mill, the only real industry in town. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Mr. Odom had fallen against a blade down at the lumber mill. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He seemed intent on not turning his classroom into a mill where everyone passed regardless of how much or how little they knew. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And that’s pretty much how it went, until it got too cold and we went back to the mill. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z What was left of the old mill—the floor and side walls—had been entirely constructed of concrete. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Every year, the Ohio mill chose some of its young engineers and sent them down to Coalwood to a kind of coal-mining boot camp my father ran. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The next day in the mill, the noise was just as jarring and her feet in Triphena’s old boots swelled just as large, but now and again she caught herself humming. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z They kept coming in in pairs, and they milled around with nothing to do. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Pax darted to the north edge of the mill ruins, near the tents and vehicles. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I didn’t like to think about mill children at all, and never had to as long as the mill ran its own school. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They milled around in there like a pack of hound dogs kept in a corn crib, all crowded together and noisy. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Diana had always said that the mill was her family. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Of smallfolk and commoners, she saw no sign, but under the gallery a cluster of lords great and small milled restlessly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was only the owners and maybe some of the foremen that could ever make a decent living at the mill. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was lunchtime, and everyone milled about, carrying lunch bags. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He was sweeping chaff off a mill floor. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “And Zella said to tell you that if you do get the mill generating electricity, please bring a wire down to her.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I really hope it’s an abandoned hosiery mill. Oh! Or maybe a raccoon-infested bus station!” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z There’d been a birch tree by the upper walls of the mill. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The men listened sympathetically, treated Johnny to drinks and assured him that they had been through the same mill. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z This makes my chest heavy so I put the book back in the rucksack and lean my head against the boards of the mill. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Exactly how much they cut depended on how much their mill could handle—the cutting must never get a day ahead of the grinding, for then the sugar cane would dry up. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Thousands of people milled about the tightly packed concrete terraces. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Till next week,” she said, “when the check comes. Thanks a mill.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Maybe they need United Steelworkers Local 4889, which used to throw its muscle around at the mill, to make profit machines like Walmart pay employees better wages. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Under the direction of our guard we carried and stacked sawn boards from the mill to a huge shed where lumber was stored through the winter. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “I think it’s a pepper mill,” she said, holding up the small garden gnome. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “My father said that my great-grandfather had a small mill there, a flour mill. He thought the stone you’re sitting on was part of it, it’s worn so smooth.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I did that all right, but when it straightened out I saw that the big cottonwood tree off by the side of the mill had popped in front of me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I would have liked to grow wheat for flour to bake with, but I had no way of processing it—no thresher, no mill. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Opposite the manor house, across a road, was the mill. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Over by the cotton mill, I would see men drawing a map in the street with a stick to show where they had bought some new land for cotton. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Cold Sassy was proud of its cotton mill, just as it was proud of the trains coming through. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I still worked at the mill, whenever the demand was up. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Television and newspaper reporters from Dallas and Midland and Odessa milled about, ready to interview them. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Down on the river at the outskirts of town there was the mill, where Jethro drove first and bargained with the grain according to his father’s instructions. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Peasants waiting by the mill, Hour after hour — They curse us as they stand in line, Enjoy their little talk. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Anya knew only what the village rumor mill had churned out. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I pan the camera from left to right, capturing the entire class as they mill around and start to pile into the buses. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z It has been more than five years since Theo visited Vincent in The Hague and they walked together to the mill. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z We left the orchid and went out of the office and across the mill floor. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She lectured me good, right there in the store, but it was about mill people. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z One of the first things done in Hobbiton, before even the removal of the new mill, was the clearing of the Hill and Bag End, and the restoration of Bagshot Row. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Other parents milled about, looking as if we were being carted off to be hanged. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At Poky, the feed had to be harvested by machine, transported by train, processed in a mill, then trucked to the feedlots. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The mill, a little ways down the valley, was up and running again. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t quite know how to explain to anyone, that it wasn’t so much that she had gotten used to the mill, but she had found a way to escape its grasp. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z When the job at the lumber mill gave out and he decided to join his parents in Olympia, he rowed all the way there—a six-day voyage that covered nearly a hundred miles of water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Paul, the second of six children—three boys and three girls—was born in 1959 in a struggling mill town. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The jobs at the sugar mill were few and far between. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z On the downtown streets of Kilgore, people milled about on the narrow sidewalks, looking at shop displays and admiring the strands of lights that decorated the businesses. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z After the crash, his father lost his job at a pulp mill and moved to Olympia in search of work. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The Eolian was nearly full, and over a hundred people milled about on the ground floor alone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Groups of people and a few couples milled around, all laughing and joking and calling out to each other, some obviously already intoxicated, heading off campus for the weekend. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “The eyas is on the roof of the mill house. I put her out in the open where a peregrine’s aerie should be.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She backed down and tried climbing the down- mountain side of the mill house. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Soon the rumor mill was spinning out gossip that the Smith girl’s father was a drunk and the family lived in a squalid shack. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “This was the hub of the mill, the heartbeat,” he said as we stood on a factory floor that was longer than two football fields. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “Becoming him, I suppose. He works over at the lumber mill.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Plus, assigned parking spots right by the mill entrance for one whole year.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z C.P.’s father died a few years later, at the age of forty-eight—not an unusually early death by mill standards. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Ralph stood now, one hand against an enormous red block, a block large as a mill wheel that had been split off and hung, tottering. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z As I cross a bridge and head toward East Berne, which is about two miles from Beaver Corners, I see the ruins of an old water mill. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was far enough from the feed mill to be fairly quiet and it had a view of what I thought was a pond. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Twelve hours a day, seven days a week, the mill noisily turns America’s river of corn into cattle feed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He’d surely get less this week at his job at the mill, assuming he still had a job when Mr. Smitherman returned to work, she thought furiously. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z We could even trade for flour if we had a mind to, but we generally took our corn to the mill to be ground. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The rumor mill had it that six weeks into his marriage, his new wife ran off with a rancher who had a big house on a hundred-acre spread in Nuevo Laredo. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “I don’t know about the part about killing their dogs, but I’ll drop a few things into the rumor mill so people will think twice about taking that sort of job.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Not only did the mill grind our wheat and barley—at a cost—it contained the ovens where we villagers, by the steward’s decree, baked our bread, which required yet another fee. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The mill was right next to the crop, so that growing and grinding took place in the same spot. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She leans back against the wood of the old mill and sleepily pulls her royal-blue tunic over her head. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He moved through the worship hall’s crowds slowly, as quietly as he could, while other patrons milled about, chatting animatedly or otherwise waiting for the service to begin. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Hundreds of people milled under the marquee of Madison Square Garden as Alfred and Henry came up from the subway. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The territory around the mill house, at the risk of death, belonged to the owls at night and the falcons by day. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Nearly half the mealtime was spent simply going up and down the staircase, across the mill yard and bridge, down the row of houses—just getting to and from the meal. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He would cross the river where it widened out at the mill, and then after another ten miles of trails that he knew, he’d be home. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z In the corral the penned animals milled nervously. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The asteroid belt is a great grinding mill, producing smaller and smaller pieces down to motes of dust. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They were only miller s sons, from the mill by the Acorn Water. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They spared themselves trouble by going instead to the sugar mill, where in the past year they had discovered their own wonder. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I helped Grandpa start the mill and we proceeded to grind the com. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He clutched a phantom machine gun and sent a burst of deadly rounds into the maize mill. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z At the water mill door he drops several small logs on top of others he apparently carried up earlier. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Tourists milled around in front of many of them—white, black, and Mexican, all drunk and loud. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z A few days after the mill was running, Alice poked her head in the door of my tree while I was writing. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z If she got an early start the next day, perhaps she could stop by once more at the mill . . . but, no . Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The parking lot pulses with students who mill around, catching up. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z And the very same day, a man loading finished bolts of cloth onto the railroad cars in the Lawrence mill yard had been run over and crushed. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z First they visit a textile mill somewhere in Rhode Island. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Viola calls, running thru the door of the mill as she grabs her own bag. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z But that didn’t keep them from hauling for Grandpa’s big warehouse—delivering to the mill or depot when farmers who stored their cotton with us finally sold it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Theo agrees; their walk to the mill will continue, even at a distance. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z |
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