millowner

“What are you abstracting from that desk?” demanded the millowner.

The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

Simply because Mr. Hunsden was a manufacturer and a millowner, and I was only a clerk, and my instinct propelled me from my superior.

The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

They held the young millowner captive, and hardly let the air breathe or the sun shine on him.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

Her husband, who was a millowner, railed at the clumsy fellow, and while she was with her handkerchief wiping up the stains from her handsome cherry-coloured taffeta gown, he angrily muttered about indemnity, costs, reimbursement.

Madame Bovary 2003

The millworkers, most of them young girls from Vermont, boarded, as was the custom, in the home of the millowner; Susan's mother, Lucy

Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian Alma Lutz

The millowner, however, speedily put them all to rout by crying heartily:

Ted and the Telephone Sara Ware Bassett 1920

It was strange that Tarboe should have bewildered and bamboozled -- if that word could be used -- the old millowner.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

It was strange that Tarboe should have bewildered and bamboozled -- if that word could be used -- the old millowner.

Carnac's Folly, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

It was strange that Tarboe should have bewildered and bamboozled -- if that word could be used -- the old millowner.

Carnac's Folly, Volume 2. Gilbert Parker 1897

The attraction of perfectibility reached beyond the ranks of men of letters, and in Robert Owen, the benevolent millowner of Lanark, it had an apostle who based upon it a very different theory from that of Political Justice and became one of the founders of modern socialism.

The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth 1894