miller

• Leclerc was the son of a miller from Pontoise, if one can describe as a miller, a very rich mill owner who had a considerable business. —  The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot
• Even if he is surprised he will escape suspicion, for the miller is a pronounced disunionist, and he looks his very image. —  From Canal Boy to President
• He'd understood long before Grandmistress Smith had laid it out before him on that clever map that one of the main reasons for his success as a miller was the improvement in haulage and communication that the spread of the new steam railways had brought. —  FSFMagazine,May2007
• 'Only the miller is here,' I told them, and, as it seemed so, they went their way, and, after a while, I went mine But," said Red Murdo, "they wid na' hae believed me if I had sworn a score o' oaths that I was the miller. —  The Black Colonel
• He says the love of the miller is more than the love of the nightingale because the nightingale shows its love by singing and making noise; but the miller, though it has a living body, makes no noise when it is burning in the fire. —  Modern Persia

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