“Eh, ma?” said a floury young mill-hand, and leant in passing over the garden gate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ultima Thule] Reference

An account of Miss Larcom's youth up to the age of twenty-nine, which includes her experiences as a Lowell mill-hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mother's List of Books for Children] Reference

By the appearance of those she saw, she judged that the girls and women were mostly of the mill-hand class, and were from Middletown and.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Janice Day Won] Reference

Even the jaded mill-hand asks for the congested variety entertainments of Blackpool or of Douglas, rather than for the solitudes of shore and woodland.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cornwall Coast] Reference

As Fenbrook drew in his horse abruptly, the mill-hand jumped into the road, grabbed Dakota Joe's whip-hand, broke his hold on the reins, and dragged the Westerner out of the saddle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies] Reference

The man who had pulled him out was, judging from his dress, a mill-hand: shivering with cold and perpetually brushing his hair from his brow, he began to tell us how he had succeeded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference

Where a hundred are required three hundred besiege the doors, and from the time his mill is started, the owner, if he only has average business capacities, will clear £40 a year out of each mill-hand he employs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquest of Bread] Reference

In a week I noticed her going by on the arm of a mill-hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative] Reference

The circular was tended by a powerful, sombre-visaged old mill-hand called.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories] Reference

The manufacturer and the mill-hand were alike interested in low prices for food.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century]

He was the perfection of tact; he placed me in one sentence as a mill-hand and a lady.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls] Reference

At what period of their lives should the children of the Southern mill-hand be educated?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls] Reference

In the case of my friend the mill-hand there was simply the addition of Etienne, the first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crowded Out! and Other Sketches] Reference

They tell me I was picked up on a doorstep in Leeds, and the wife of a mill-hand adopted me.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Year of Jubilee] Reference

Now the average man, in the world as it wags, is a farm-labourer, an artisan, a mill-hand, a navvy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Prandial Philosophy] Reference

Had it been your intention, my father, to make a mill-hand of me, you should have begun that work earlier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argonauts] Reference

There's likely nothing worse the matter than some drunken mill-hand on a vacation while the mills are under water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Case of Jennie Brice] Reference

"She'll marry some mill-hand," he reflected, "and wear a boudoir cap, and have a lot of children who need their noses wiped.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dangerous Days] Reference

What energy of the personal soul is exercised in a mill-hand, a tea-packer, a slop-tailor, or the watcher of a thread in a machine?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays in Rebellion] Reference

The woman had been a mill-hand, discovered by the woodsman on a chance visit to the town where she worked, and made his wife, his woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Together] Reference

Guild, and intended to give the agricultural labourer or mill-hand, trained from infancy in Guild schools, some insight into Literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of John Ruskin] Reference

Briefly, she was to polish the quondam mill-hand, whom he had married when he, too, was a factory operative, but who had not been able to rise with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes] Reference

With a word only and a nod she passes us; she has now too many vital things and incidents in her own career to be curious regarding a strange mill-hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls] Reference

` ` No, indeed, it would not, '' he replied, in an earnest tone; ` ` I am sure I should have worked as a mill-hand all my life if it had not been for you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum] Reference

She heard their voices, and then she began to ask herself what they would really say of her proposing to go to Fall River with the Savors and be a mill-hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annie Kilburn : a Novel] Reference

"If you are a mill-hand your stomach won't let you save money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference

A mill-hand, said the other day he didn't feel in a grand fettle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sarah's School Friend] Reference

The millionaire and the mill-hand -- somehow they always manage to leave less than every one expected -- ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Minds Her Business] Reference

"There's likely nothing worse the matter than some drunken mill-hand on a vacation while the mills are under water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Case of Jennie Brice] Reference

"The heiress of seven generations must work like a common Northern mill-hand to support that pompous old father of hers, the heir of six.    From Wordnik.com.  [Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond] Reference

I am a mill-hand with her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls] Reference

Southern mill-hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls] Reference

Coming from a mill-hand of his father's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sarah's School Friend] Reference

Brookhollow -- that freckled-faced mill-hand -- that yap-skirt!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dark Star] Reference