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The guests in the kitchen of the Redhouse were startled by the clamour, and declaring that 'there must be summat more nor common to do at Hollow's-miln,' they called for lanterns, and hurried to the spot in a body.
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The direct approach to the Scottish front was protected in a great measure by a morass called the New-miln Bog.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 406, December 26, 1829 Various
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When Zantippa had just made this resolve, th 'door opened, an' Dick au 'three childer coom in throo th' miln.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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Last June, aw had two or three days to call mi own (an ', by gow! if yo nivver worked in a miln, yo dooant knaw what a blessing that is), an' aw tuk a walk as far as Pellon, an 'then dahn throo Birks Hall an' ovver th 'Shrogs to Ovenden, then throo Illingworth to Keighley, an' on as far as Steeton.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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For aw've moped i 'yond miln wol aw raylee feel strange:
Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect John Hartley 1877
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But poor Jimmy couldn't spaik, for he wor wedged as fast as a thief in a miln, an 'nowt but his legs an' his arms could be seen.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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Just as they'd getten into th 'street they met all th' miln fowk, an 'as they wor booath weel known, fowk laffed rarely, for they thowt it a gooid spree.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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They set to wark then to get some clean pots ready for Joa, an 'sent one o'th' childer ta watch th 'miln loise, ta tell Sam ta come wi' him.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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Scotch; and away they marched to the newe miln, with Mr Mayor and the
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 John Mackay Wilson 1819
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Downie being at a miln, some of the people there upbraided Alexander
Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald for the Murder of Arthur Davis, Sergeant in General Guise's Regiment of Foot Walter Scott 1801
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