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" Various

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 1909

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 Various 1905

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 William Lyon Phelps 1904

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 1898

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. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896

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

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

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 Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

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 Edward Harrison Barker 1885

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 Elbert Hubbard 1885