silk-mill

• “Three years later he extended his reputation by completing the machinery for a silk-mill at Congleton.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"

• “That scourge had carried off the owner of another silk-mill, situated almost at the gates of Bergamo; and the heir, a dissolute young fellow, finding nothing in this edifice that could afford him any diversion, proposed, or rather was anxious, to dispose of it, even at half its value; but he wanted the money down upon the spot, that he might instantly expend it with unproductive prodigality.”

  Chapter XXXVIII

• “We are operating successfully several banks, commercial enterprises among our people in the Southland, including 1 silk-mill and 1 cotton-factory.”

  Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time

• “Of deeds which make up life, refers to her daily duty as a girl in the silk-mill, for she naturally thinks of the complexity of life as a tangled skein.”

  Robert Browning: How to Know Him

• “The girl seemed reluctant, but told him that they all worked in the neighboring silk-mill, the pulsations of which he had heard in the night.”

  Purple-Eyes

• “It has a cotton factory and a silk-mill, the only one in the State, where silk yarns are converted into thread for northern silk-weaving establishments.”

  North Carolina and its Resources.

• “After dinner, Mr.. Butter went with me to see the silk-mill which Mr. John Lombe had [461] had a patent for, having brought away the contrivance from Italy.”

  Life of Johnson

• “About the year 1717 he founded a great silk-mill at Derby.”

  Life of Johnson

• “The dusk was falling when I reached a silk-mill by the side of the Rue, and passed up the deep gorge full of shadows, led by the sound of roaring waters.”

  Two Summers in Guyenne

• “In two years he had built up a town of twelve hundred people, and had a watch-factory and silk-mill in full and paying operation.”

  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8

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