millstone

• Clearing the ground for the elaborate proposed monument the workmen had discovered a millstone, and on moving it found beneath it a gaping hole, which turned out be a deep shaft. —  A Presumption of Death - Jill Paton Walsh, Dorothy L Sayers, - [Wimsey-Vane]
• And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all Thinking, the stone of retribution I've got, Grady, is a well-built Swiss gun and the messenger isn't an angel from Heaven but a representative of all right-thinking people in America. —  The Vanished Man
• This doom hangs upon the race or the individual like a millstone, forever shaping what we see of them, grinding them into their destined channels. —  StrangeHorizons,July2002
• We are not to judge someone and take the bible out of context, saying that a millstone should be around his neck and he should go for a swim - its clearly not what Jesus was saying. —  UnionLeader.com -- RSS feeds -- New Hampshire news, business and sports
• The bird stuck his neck through the hole in the millstone, and put it on like a collar, and flew back to the tree, and sang My mother, she killed me My father, he ate me My sister, little Margery Gathered up all my bones Tied them in a silk handkerchief And laid them under the Juniper-tree Kywitt! —  The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew

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