Everything is going round and round in my head like a millwheel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

"I think it was about there," Tenoctris called from the beside the millwheel, where she and Cashel had sheltered during the night to watch the drover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

It was a rambling structure, the great, splashing millwheel at the far end, the long warehouse in the middle, and the dwelling attached to the other end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference

He didn't think he made a sound but Tenoctris, standing in the shelter of the great cypress-wood millwheel, turned and beckoned him urgently to join her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

His forehead was wrinkled as with a great effort to remember something, but he could think of nothing but a huge millwheel turning under red, smooth waves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selected Polish Tales] Reference

Devised by a renowned inventor, Liu Cheng-shih, the millwheel- shaped hydropower facility can generate electricity using the weak water flow in rice paddy irrigation systems, which would represent a new clean energy source suitable for agriculture and poultry farming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference

That same ability to sustain the smallest thread of pianissimo cast a chilling spell when, in "Die liebe Farbe", he shrouded his voice to sing of death while the superb Helmut Deutsch kept the millwheel turning in his beautifully sensitive, many-coloured accompaniment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nigel Kennedy/ Orchestra of Life; Sir Charles Mackerras Memorial Concert; Jonas Kaufmann] Reference

The air, like a millwheel, whizzed round us and round.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne,] Reference

There he was, being carried along to the edge of the falls, with the cruel, sharp stones below, and the big millwheel going around and around.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble] Reference

We even mistake a measure of noise -- like a continuous millwheel or a river, say -- for silence, when in reality there is no such thing as perfect silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Chord] Reference

At some distance from the city, stood a solitary house, painted white and clean; on descending through two cellars, the noise of a millwheel was heard, and the rushing waters of.    From Wordnik.com.  [True Story of My Life] Reference

So he got a rope and threw it to Jimmie, but the rope wasn't long enough, and the poor little boy duck kept getting closer and closer to the edge of the falls, and the big millwheel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble] Reference

The moon came out full and strong in temporary victory, and made black shadows behind the idle millwheel and open mill-race, and black shadows, black as death, under the bridge itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers] Reference

The two streams that poured out of it to meet a little lower down the valley hardly murmured as they started upon their journey amidst the iris and sedge, although the body of water was strong enough to turn a millwheel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine] Reference

There were names historic and names mushroomic; names that the Conqueror might have called in his muster-roll; names that had been, clearly, tossed into the upper stratum of civilized lifer by a millwheel or a merchant-stool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete] Reference

At some distance from the city, stood a solitary house, painted white and clean; on descending through two cellars, the noise of a millwheel was heard, and the rushing waters of a river which flowed on here, hidden from the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Story of My Life]

It can never have been meant to convey water to the mill, as the highest part begins in the solid rock, and the object must always have been to keep the water on the highest possible level, until it reached the top of the millwheel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference

Bonnyboy, who more than once had seen the beautiful silvery fish spring right on to the millwheel, and be flung upon the rocks, had wished that he had understood the language of the fishes, so that he might tell them how foolish such proceedings were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boyhood in Norway] Reference

Beyond the west wall of the mill which adjoins the stream, there is a continuation of the trench through the rock down to the water, which serves to take away that which passes over the millwheel at right angles to where the rock has been cut away to make room for the millwheel itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference

Was the daily grind a mechanical millwheel?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jewel Weed] Reference

The millwheel turn'd in blood; the wholesome plow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Becket and other plays] Reference

A mighty millwheel waiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finger plays for nursery and kindergarten] Reference

A millwheel has.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poet at the Breakfast-Table] Reference

A mighty millwheel waiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finger plays for nursery and kindergarten] Reference