windmiller

Way tangential to sloppy drums but….did anyone catch that business about ‘Hedgestock’ being fronted by the windmiller formerly known as Pete?

Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: I’m Just Wild About Harry 2006

Comment: “The lone American League windmiller is ‘Bobo’ Newsom.”

The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

Comment: “The lone American League windmiller is ‘Bobo’ Newsom.”

The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

Comment: “The lone American League windmiller is ‘Bobo’ Newsom.”

The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

A little too much drink made the windmiller peevish and pompous, but just now he spoke in a kindly, almost conciliating tone.

Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

Though Abel preferred nursing to pig-minding, he had a higher ambition yet, which was to begin his career as a windmiller.

Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

And as the windmiller went off muttering something which the Family

Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

"WHAT'S TEN SHILLINGS A WEEK TO YOU?" cried the windmiller, who was fairly exasperated, in tones so loud that they were audible in the dwelling room, where the stranger, standing by the three-legged table, stroked his lips twice or thrice with his hand, as if to smooth out a cynical smile which strove to disturb their decorous and somewhat haughty compression.

Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

All his plans were founded on the belief that he himself would live to train the boy to be a windmiller, whilst Master Swift's had reference to the conviction that "miller's consumption" would deprive Jan of his foster-father long before he was old enough to succeed him.

Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

So the windmiller might have said, if he had been in the habit of putting his thoughts into an epigrammatic form, as a groan from his wife and a growl of thunder broke simultaneously upon his ear, whilst the rain fell scarcely faster than her tears.

Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863