Sentence examples for because the upper millstone from inspiring English sources
The horizontal-wheel mill (sometimes called a Norse or Greek mill) also required little auxiliary construction, but it was suited for grinding because the upper millstone was fixed upon the vertical shaft.
Am. 3, 15, 2: hic tibi mortis erant metae, Verg. A. 12, 546: ad quas metas naturae sit perveniendum usu, i. e., Sen. Ep. 56, 4: meta molendaria, or molendinaria, that part of the upper millstone which projects downward and grinds the corn (the upper part is the catillus, q. v).; = Gr.
Inside the building there was a fixed lower millstone, and a rotating upper millstone driven by the water falling onto the paddles below.
But it was a very quiet audience, almost entirely middle-class - significantly the class that is ground between the upper and nether millstone of politics.
I cannot believe that the carrier is thus placed beneath the upper and the nether millstone, liable, under the law of Texas, to the owner of the cattle if he refuses to ship them (Bowman v. Railway Co., supra), and liable to any one in Kansas, under the Kansas statute, if injuries result from the improper handling by the consignee or others.
along the upper Niger River.
Check the upper stairway.
The company is seeking to extend the licenses of the Millstone 2 reactor to 2035 and the Millstone 3 reactor to 2045.
"Because the milestone becomes a millstone.
