millwheel
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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I could see his mind working, stone-cold, grinding like a millwheel.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
Spellbound, Jane Withersteen watched this stupendous millwheel of steers.
From Riders of the Purple Sage by Grey, Zane
Fear not, good Master Corwin, Giles Corey will not die; erelong his old tongue will wag like a millwheel.
From Giles Corey, Yeoman A Play by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
Long windows opened out on to a lawn stretching down to the watercourse which fed the millwheel.
From Hyacinth by Birmingham, George A.
Each of them throws his mantle round another and is as swift as a millwheel.
From The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes by Eliot, Charles William
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