Lexicographical Neighbors of Cornmills
Literary usage of Cornmills
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Church of Sancta Sophia, Constantinople: A Study of Byzantine Building by William Richard Lethaby, Harold Swainson (1894)
"... I 5 private baths; 4 public Church ; the Ancient Church ; the cornmills ; 15
private cornmills ; 4 Senate ; the Tribunal built with terraces of steps. ..."
2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1908)
"In the group of buildings are St. Thomas's chapel on the left, Nonsuch house on
the right ; the cornmills further on the right, and the water- raising ..."
3. The Monthly Review (1842)
"In these, the manners and customs of the actors are Norman, almost to the exclusion
of those of Wales. The buildings, cornmills, comforts, luxuries, ..."
4. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"The nine cornmills, which they have in this circuit of theirs, grind now night
and day; and all the cavalry are set to thresh whatever grain can be found ..."
5. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1908)
"Is not La Vendee still blazing;—alas too literally; rogue Rossignol burning the
very cornmills ? General Santerre could do nothing there; General Rossignol, ..."
6. Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881 by James Anthony Froude (1884)
"... not to speak of chained (anchored) cornmills, &c. Maintz and Faust of Maintz
we had to survey by cat's- light—good enough for us and it, I fancy. ..."
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