How To Use Millstone In A Sentence
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Just because you want to get rid of a financial millstone round your neck doesn't qualify.
The Sun
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It regulated the output but not the power of a millstone.
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Most carved stones are flat-topped outcrops of the local millstone grit.
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Such a contract could be putting a millstone round the neck of the citizens of this borough.
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Inflation is still a millstone round the neck of British businesses.
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He explained that they were the sites where millstones were cut from the outcrops of Millstone Grit.
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The geology here is alternating layers of limestone and shale topped with millstone grit.
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Pragmatic John W Henry sees grounds for sharingThe £37m Tom Hicks and George Gillett borrowed from RBS for preparatory work on a Stanley Park stadium hangs like a millstone around Liverpool, and it could force the Reds into a groundshare with Everton.
John W Henry and Liverpool keep quiet about £45m loan deals
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To be honest, the great bird, the roast ham and the sausage rolls have been a millstone round this cook's neck for longer than he cares to remember.
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My debts are a millstone around my neck.
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Paradoxically, Anthea now threatened to become a millstone to drag him down.
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He is picking the surface of a millstone.
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He makes mountains out of millstones, and would panegyrize the most commonplace of men if he happened to take a fancy to him.
Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces
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Unemployment was an economic millstone around the country's neck.
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It is a tough and uncompromising landscape, open country contrasting with millstone grit and the legacy of centuries of industrial exploitation.
Exploring Britain's Canals
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Milnrow Parish Church is a millstone around its parishioners necks, says the vicar, the Rev Robin Usher.
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Moreover, the clinker, which is of excessively hard character, has to be reduced by means of a crusher to particles sufficiently small to be admitted by the millstones, where it is ground into a fine powder, and becomes the Portland cement of commerce.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887
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It has an area of 280 square metres and is complete with waterwheel, gears and shafts, millstones and fans and sieves for the processing of grain.
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The geology here is alternating layers of limestone and shale topped with millstone grit.
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Millstone pointed to several passages in the investigators’ report that seemed to contradict Frady’s perception of it being “omissive.”
Freshwater April 29 & 30: Exploiting kids - The Panda's Thumb
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That pledge became a millstone around his neck after the financial crisis.
The Sun
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Marching (100x15)
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That is like a millstone around his neck and one that made him a tad tetchy when the subject was inevitably raised again yesterday.
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As it is, it has become a millstone around the government's neck.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the fact is some manses can be a real millstone, because you have got to pay for heating and lighting out of your own stipend.
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The pent-up waters, controlled by a sluice gate, were directed past the mill wheel, driving the wooden gears, shafts and millstones.
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Of more general interest, the Millstone station resumed posting ionosonde readings for a couple weeks, though not continuous, but has discontinued the postings.
EHam.net News
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Archive 2008-02-01
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Went to see the houses of the inhabitants: they were nearly all the same, the furniture consisting of a burnouse-loom, a couple of millstones, and a quantity of basins, plates, and dishes, hung upon the walls for effect, seldom being used; there were also some skins of grain.
Travels in Morocco
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The mortgage on his house had become a millstone around his neck.
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Two portable millstones are used for the purpose, of which the uppermost is turned by a small wooden handle, and during the operation the maid sits behind the mill.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Derbyshire there are masses of coralloid and other shells which have become siliceous, and are thus left with large vacuities sometimes within and sometimes on the outside of the remaining form of the shell, like the French millstones, and I suppose might serve the same purpose; the gravel of the Derwent is full of specimens of this kind.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
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It is a tough and uncompromising landscape, open country contrasting with millstone grit and the legacy of centuries of industrial exploitation.
Exploring Britain's Canals
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The platinum operation has become a millstone.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whether all this is a privilege or a millstone for the new incumbent depends on perspective.
Times, Sunday Times
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Financially he has been struggling for quite a while, and although he will be falling off the property ladder he will have one less millstone around his neck.
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For too long it has been a millstone round people's necks.
The Sun
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These are cornerstones, flint stones, millstones, limestone, and milestones.
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For today's politicians, the treaty is becoming a millstone.
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Half a dozen different Guilds were vying to be the first to get the new machinery to drive the bellows in the smelters, looms and wheels in the textile mills, water pumps, millstones.
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That target had become a millstone for the business.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were two great vertical millstones of smooth red granite, which shone beautifully from the oil of the ground seeds.
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It's just hard for me to set off in life with all this debt round my neck like a millstone.
Times, Sunday Times
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But he also agreed readily with my contention that such heady episodes have been a millstone.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mortgage on his house had become a millstone around his neck.
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It is curious to imagine what chaff might be produced if these two millstones ever came together, and started grinding.
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And winning the FA Cup last season finally got rid of the millstone hanging round their necks.
The Sun
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No repeat is likely of those simplistic pledge card promises - such as cutting hospital waiting lists - which seemed so straightforward and unambitious in 1997, but turned out to be a millstone.
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(Isaiah 47: 1,2) "facing each other; both have hold of the handle by which the upper is turned round on the 'nether' millstone.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
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It is a millstone around the neck of British firms.
Times, Sunday Times
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Philip led the way, and they entered the mill, where the warning bells were ringing to give notice that the corn was flowing down rightly; and the mill-hoppers kept on "ruttle, ruttle;" the water hissed, seethed, and rushed under their feet; the millstones rumbled round and round; and there on the top of the sacks, with which the place was half filled, sat the two great white cats belonging to the miller, fast asleep; while in
Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home
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The Republicans clearly hope the same millstone can be hung around Kerry's neck this year.
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At others, it can be a millstone around the neck.
The Sun
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There are countless examples of the milestone turning into a millstone as the prospect of three figures creeps closer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Inflation is still a millstone round the neck of British businesses.
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Unemployment was an economic millstone around the country's neck.
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The story above the basement held the millstones and the "smutting" machine, for cleaning dirty wheat.
Jan of the Windmill
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The urban manufacturers in Edinburgh and Glasgow usually made up their millstones from a centre-piece of indigenous rock with radial French burr segments around it.
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Millstones, if they were not adjusted properly, could strike sparks from each other.
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Superversive: The Cat Came Back (1988)
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One of the classics of Canadian animation, and a millstone in ailurophilic history.
The Cat Came Back (1988)
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The manorial village was never completely self-sufficient because salt, millstones or perhaps metalware were not available and had to be obtained from outside sources.
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The "cross moline" is so named from resemblance to the moline, or crossed iron, in the center of the upper millstone.
The Worship of the Church and The Beauty of Holiness
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On Laurel River in Madison is a peculiar cherty splintered whitish quartz rock which Mr. George Gehagan has manufactured into millstones, which are described as nearly equal in performance to the French buhrstone.
A Guide to Capitalists and Emigrants: Being a Statistical and Descriptive Account of the Several Counties of the State of North Carolina, United States of America; Together with Letters of Prominent Citizens of the State in Relation to the Soil, Climate,
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He no longer regards his father's legacy as a millstone around his neck.
Times, Sunday Times
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I wonder when I reflect under what influence I was brought up, that my heart is not harder than the nether millstone.
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If so, are the millstone and putto in keeping with his approach to such illustrations?
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It is a tough and uncompromising landscape, open country contrasting with millstone grit and the legacy of centuries of industrial exploitation.
Exploring Britain's Canals
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Their DNA fathered tiki-taka back in the day with Arthur Rowe's push and run bringing their first league title and creating a millstone around numerous managers' necks.
Tottenham Hotspur Premier League 2011-12 team guide
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The display will include ancient millstones, Victorian and Albert period clothing, and the Michael Cowan working miniatures.
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The pent-up waters, controlled by a sluice gate, were directed past the mill wheel, driving the wooden gears, shafts and millstones.
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When the millstone was dropped on the wicked stepmother, I did not miss a breath.
What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story
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It is a tough and uncompromising landscape, open country contrasting with millstone grit and the legacy of centuries of industrial exploitation.
Exploring Britain's Canals
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Silent Poem backroad leafmold stonewall chipmunk underbrush grapevine woodchuck shadblow woodsmoke cowbarn honeysuckle woodpile sawhorse bucksaw outhouse wellsweep backdoor flagstone bulkhead buttermilk candlestick ragrug firedog brownbread hilltop outcrop cowbell buttercup whetstone thunderstorm pitchfork steeplebush gristmill millstone cornmeal waterwheel watercress buckwheat firefly jewelweed gravestone groundpine windbreak bedrock weathercock snowfall starlight cockcrow
Marching (100x15)
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You could end up unable to remortgage and with a property that is quite a millstone around your neck.
Times, Sunday Times
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WATERFORD (AP) †"The Millstone nuclear power complex in Waterford has won federal approval to increase the generating capacity at one of its reactors by 7 percent.
News from www.rep-am.com
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Much of the original wooden machinery is intact - it was used to drive two pairs of millstones for grinding corn.
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Once your wealth rises above a particular point it can become a millstone, damaging relationships with friends and family alike.
Times, Sunday Times
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A husband can be a millstone around your neck.
Times, Sunday Times