cotton-mills

It required men toiling in the mines and foundries, women sewing their eyes out in sweat-shops, shop girls slaving for four and five dollars a week, little children working in the factories and cotton-mills — all these it required to produce those five hundred millions spent this year in motor-cars.

THEFT 2010

It was a new god; a monster of steel limbs, oak ribs, flesh of gravel, and a stupendous hunger for freight; a deity created by man that he might keep himself respectful to Property, as elsewhere he had elevated and served as tribal gods the mines, cotton-mills, motor-factories, colleges, army.

Main Street 2004

Further on, beyond where the road crosses the stream, were the big old stone cotton-mills, once driven by water.

The Virgin and the Gypsy 2003

He was the son of a proprietor of well-known cotton-mills in

The Portrait of a Lady 2003

The cotton-mills employ 1200 workmen, and the annual value of the produce is

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

To-day there are 160 cotton-mills, possessing 1,500,000 spindles and

The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin

Conflagrations may, and do, occasionally diminish the number of cotton-mills, and lighten the warehoused accumulation of cottons, or other inert matter; but no lucky plague, pestilence, or cholera, comes to thin the crowded phalanx, and rid this empire of some portion of the interminable brood of mongers of all shapes and sizes.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various

She now possesses more than 200 cotton-mills which employ about 230,000 workmen, and contain more than 6,000,000 spindles and 80,000 looms, and

The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin

And since 1857 such improvements have been made in the cotton-mills of

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

In establishing this store, the directors followed the usual custom of cotton-mills in smaller towns of the South; paying their employees part in money and part in warrants on the store.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore