" He who wore millstones hanging from his neck said, "I can lift it."

Went to see the houses of the inhabitants: they were nearly all the same, the furniture consisting of a burnouse-loom, a couple of millstones, and a quantity of basins, plates, and dishes, hung upon the walls for effect, seldom being used; there were also some skins of grain.

Eris dea is settled in our tents, Omnia de lite, opposing wit to wit, wealth to wealth, strength to strength, fortunes to fortunes, friends to friends, as at a sea-fight, we turn our broadsides, or two millstones with continual attrition, we fire ourselves, or break another's backs, and both are ruined and consumed in the end.

His wife was simply a shadow and echo of himself; one of those clinging, tender, unselfish, will-less women, who make pleasant, and affectionate, and sunny wives enough for rich, prosperous, unsentimental husbands, but who are millstones about the necks of sensitive, impressionable, unsuccessful men.

By the waterside a stout oaken crane was unloading millstones, wheeling backwards and forwards on its axis.

It is only to be found in "ARTOX" Wholemeal, which is made from the very finest wheat obtainable, carefully selected and blended, and ground by millstones in the good old fashioned way.

On one of these excursions, while stopping at a planter's who owned a mill, I saw several large masses of sienite, lying on the ground; and on inquiry where this material could come from, in the midst of a limestone country, was informed that it was brought from the waters of the St. Francis, to serve the purpose of millstones.

He may not be so very acute, but Mamma Hubert and her manoeuvers are not millstones for seeing through!"

That, in fact, the poor, largely speaking, were between the upper and nether millstones of low wages and high prices.

A keen shopkeeper, having in his service a couple of shopmen, who in point of intellect, were the very reverse of their master, a wag who frequented the shop, for some time puzzled the neighbourhood by designating it a "music-shop," although the proprietor dealt as much in music as in millstones.

He who has pierced a steel shield with a steel spear is a brave fellow," said the man with the millstones.

They went on and on and saw a mill with seven millstones grinding corn.

"Seven millstones grind for him and yet he has not enough, but cries, 'I die of hunger.'" "I am no brave fellow.

He who had fastened millstones to his feet led the march, and they all went joyously forward, making a great noise.

Between the millstones of duty and indigestion he will be sadly ground, but with the axe he may, if he will, defend his constitution.'

Between the Millstones LVII.

The millstones were dug out of quarries in the neighborhood and the work of building the mill was done amid considerable danger from the Indians, who had begun what is known as Dunmore's War.

"What you hear, sir, is the attrition consequent upon the grinding together of certain millstones belonging to the gods.

Transylvania was between two millstones.

But will these millstones sink her?

nothing has yet survived the pressure of the two millstones.'

I have never ceased to wonder that anything was left of us, after having been thus ground between the upper and nether millstones.

I have referred in a former chapter to the seven sessions through which we passed between the upper and nether millstones.

However, of its relics we can only mention, in passing, the parish church with its four towers, all of tufa, the dungeons under the council-house, significantly called the "Jew's bath," and the old sixteenth-century contrivances for loading Rhine boats with the millstones in which the town still drives a fair trade.

On our way back to the Rocky Gate we pass through the singular little town of Niedermendig, an hour's distance from the lakea place built wholly of dark gray lava, standing in a region where lava-ridges seam the earth like the bones of antediluvian monsters, but are made more profitable by being quarried into millstones.