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Whether I had been frightened at the machinery when very young, of which I think I have some shadowy recollection -- whether I had heard the stories of the miller of Thirlestane [469] and similar molendinar tragedies, I cannot tell; but not even recollection of the Lass of Patie's Mill, or the Miller of
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801
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The very sight of my forceps, without the least effort on my part, once cured an inveterate toothache of three days 'duration, prevented the extraction of a carious molendinar, which it was the very end of their formation to achieve, and sent me home minus a guinea.
St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801
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The very sight of my forceps, without the least effort on my part, once cured an inveterate toothache of three days’ duration, prevented the extraction of a carious molendinar, which it was the very end of their formation to achieve, and sent me home minus a guinea. —
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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