mill-stone

Pond-larker saw Loud-crier perishing, he struck in quickly and wounded Troglodyte in his soft neck with a rock like a mill-stone, so that darkness veiled his eyes.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Now, if he became PM, or even ran for the job, these words would be like a mill-stone round his neck.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2007

Now, if he became PM, or even ran for the job, these words would be like a mill-stone round his neck.

The limit to Alan Johnson's ambition 2007

After all, could I have tied a mill-stone round the neck of him I love?

Ursula 2006

They dwell in poor huts, built of loose stones and turf, without any mortar, having a fireplace or hearth in the middle, generally made of an old mill-stone, and a hole at top to let out the smoke.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

"It would be better if she had a mill-stone about her neck and was drowned and resting at the bottom of the ocean than marrying that Swede!"

Archive 2004-04-01 Torill 2004

They are first of all ground into a paste by a mill-stone set edge-ways in a circular stone-trough, the wheel being turned by water.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

"It would be better if she had a mill-stone about her neck and was drowned and resting at the bottom of the ocean than marrying that Swede!"

04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004 Torill 2004

This is either owing to the particles of the mill-stone rubbed off in grinding, or to what adheres to the corn itself, in being threshed upon the common ground; for there are no threshing-floors in this country.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

He endeavoured more than once to get up, and even to disentangle himself from her embrace, but she hung about his neck like a mill-stone (no bad emblem of matrimony), and if my man had not proved a stanch auxiliary, those two lovers would in all probability have gone hand in hand to the shades below — For my part, I was too much engaged to take any cognizance of their distress. —

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004