A millstone was a heavy grinding stone so large that it had to be turned by a donkey. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
Piran is said to have journeyed across the seas on a millstone, which is a mythical way of saying that he brought his altar-stone with him. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
"What kind of millstone can it make, if it's as weak as that?". From Wordnik.com. [Seventh Son]
His being the first Roman Catholic presidential candidate had become a "millstone" around his campaign's neck. From Wordnik.com. [I've heard JFK, and Mitt, you're no JFK] Reference
"The important thing to remember is that it's the kind of millstone that's adorned all kinds of necks.". From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
It had now been a millstone on my heart for a week. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
Cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, 147. From Wordnik.com. [Fair to Look Upon] Reference
In front a large millstone will bear the inscription. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
At his feet lies the millstone with which he was drowned. From Wordnik.com. [Luca Signorelli] Reference
He hated the house -- it was an incubus, a millstone; but. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
Federalist has been a millstone round the neck of true policy. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
As man and millstone reached the sea the storm instantly ceased. From Wordnik.com. [Legend Land, Vol. 1 Being a collection of some of the Old Tales told in those Western Parts of Britain served by The Great Western Railway.] Reference
Its fatal old-fashionedness hangs like a millstone about its neck. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
One can see as far into a millstone as other people without being that. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
She might be good, but she had now a heart as hard as the nether millstone. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
No one ever got anywhere with anything with such a millstone around his neck. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
Didn't a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez?. From Wordnik.com. [The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Samuel] Reference
Just as if a couple of greenbacks could make a blind man see clean through a millstone!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
You are a contemplative body of men, and can see into a millstone as far as most nations. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
Judges ix. 50, where Abimelech was slain by the women hurling a millstone on his head from the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
"But Moses was the first lawgiver to forbid taking the nether millstone as a pledge," objected Robin. From Wordnik.com. [The Master-Knot of Human Fate] Reference
Thou shalt not take the nether, nor the upper millstone to pledge: for he hath pledged his life to thee. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 05: Deuteronomy The Challoner Revision] Reference
While holding cash is a sure benchmark beater in a down market, it is a millstone heavy burden in a rally. From Wordnik.com. [Why Markets Are So Shaky] Reference
They also know that, even in the best scenario, Iraq will remain a millstone around Bush's neck until Jan. 20, 2009. From Wordnik.com. [BEHIND BUSH'S BACK] Reference
Debauchery, moreover, the first result of the principles of death, is a terrible millstone for grinding the energies. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He thought him "an incubus on the party," "the political millstone of the west," and he attributed the occasional loss of. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Next to this larger drum there is a smaller one, also with teeth, but set horizontally, and this is attached (to the millstone). From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
"I don't count on bein 'able to see no furder through a millstone than my neighbors, but I've been aweer o' that for a day or two.". From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerobaal? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall and slew him in Thebes?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 10: 2 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference
And behold, a certain woman casting a piece of a millstone from above, dashed it against the head of Abimelech, and broke his skull. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 07: Judges The Challoner Revision] Reference
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