'It's all one where I got it from; you see the quern is a good one, and the mill-stream never freezes, that's enough.'. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Tales from the Norse] Reference
"It's all one where I got it from; you see the quern is a good one, and the mill-stream never freezes, that's enough.". From Wordnik.com. [Folk Tales Every Child Should Know] Reference
The feeding apparatus consists of a kind of quern for grinding corn, especially maize. From Wordnik.com. [To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I] Reference
Christmas cheer; and as he spoke the quern brought them forth. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
Britain they possessed no instrument for grinding corn except the quern. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
"I dinna see how ye'd ever grind them in a quern for bread or parritch.". From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
When it was near breakfast time he put the quern on the breakfast table. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
Miryam sweeps the milled wheat out of her quern, pours in a new load of kernels. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 5)] Reference
But angels used to grind at the quern for Ciaran's sake on the day that was his. From Wordnik.com. [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference
If we really get serious about all of the bio-fuels outside quern based ethanol. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2006] Reference
The attempt to revive the use of the quern had no success except in a single instance. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference
She looked toward the sacred quern and showed her shame, and then she came close to tears. From Wordnik.com. [Poland]
Mann, the officer in charge at Kilkee, induced a coast-guard there to take to quern making. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference
Mysingr took with him the quern, Grotti, with Fenia and Menia, and ordered them to grind salt. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian] Reference
I made my Lament of Danae there, because of a song I heard a woman sing as she turned the quern. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
The principle of the hand quern is similar, but it is usually turned with a small wooden handle. From Wordnik.com. [Renegades Of Gor]
Not having been trained in skills such as weaving, she'd likeliest end in the scullery or at a quern. From Wordnik.com. [Time Patrolman]
After a long while there came a skipper who wanted to see the quern; he asked if it could grind salt. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
A task chosen for its severity was laid upon him, namely, to turn the quern-stone daily for making flour. From Wordnik.com. [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference
Brendanus, Columba, and many others; and each of them on his day would grind with his own hands on the quern. From Wordnik.com. [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference
So the midnight quern ceased operating, and the men in the forest had to forage even more for their existence. From Wordnik.com. [Poland]
That quern turned out anything that the grinder chose, though formerly it had ground nothing but peace and gold. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
But later in the evening, when he had drunk a little freely, he could no longer resist, but brought out the quern. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
There at the bottom of the sea stands the quern grinding till this very day, and that is the reason why the sea is salt. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
Then he kissed her, and the hidden quern was not mentioned again, but as he worked his fields he sequestered larger and larger. From Wordnik.com. [Poland]
"It does not matter where I got it from; you see the quern is good and the mill stream is not likely to freeze," said the man. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
He simply walked past a row of cottages bearing in his arms the once-fatal quern which could now be restored to its proper place. From Wordnik.com. [Poland]
"There you see that which has brought me all my riches," he said, and so he let the quern grind first one thing and then another. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
When he was led to the king, he gave sentence that he should be reduced to servitude, and be set apart for grinding at the quern. From Wordnik.com. [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference
The next day I followed her and discovered she went to a larger house where she ground maize in a quern, washed clothes, and swept. From Wordnik.com. [The Urth of the New Sun]
The woman crossed herself time after time and wanted to know where her husband had got the quern from; but this he would not tell her. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
"Grind salt, and that both quickly and well," said the skipper, and the quern began to grind out salt so that it spurted to all sides. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
She now stayed her quern and spake a word, a sign to her lord. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
(All rights reserved.) "Ignoranti quern portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.". From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer] Reference
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