corn-grinding

Updated: May 11, 2025

Meanwhile, keep a sharp eye on him and give him all the corn-grinding he can do. Sweat the Original Sin out of him ... and see he does not secrete any kind of weapon." Accordingly was Moussa segregated, and to the base women's-work of corn-grinding in the cook-house, wholly relegated.

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life

Here we discharged our camels, as our Turk, Hadji Achmet's, service ended at this point, and proceeded to start afresh for the Nile tributaries of Abyssinia. Egypt's rule of the Soudan Corn-grinding in the Soudan Mahomet meets relatives The parent of Egypt El Baggar rides the camel.

Sir Samuel White Baker - In the Heart of Africa

The stabbing and piercing potentialities of a lead pencil are not yet properly investigated, tabulated, established and known. It would be a pity to do small damage and incur a heavy corn-grinding punishment. He might never get another chance of vengeance either, if he bungled this one.

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life

Within the house, however, woman was not servant but mistress. Exempted from the tasks of corn-grinding and cooking which according to Roman ideas belonged to the menials, the Roman housewife devoted herself in the main to the superintendence of her maid-servants, and to the accompanying labours of the distaff, which was to woman what the plough was to man.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book I : The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy

Within the house, however, woman was not servant but mistress. Exempted from the tasks of corn-grinding and cooking which according to Roman ideas belonged to the menials, the Roman housewife devoted herself in the main to the superintendence of her maid-servants, and to the accompanying labours of the distaff, which was to woman what the plough was to man.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

He was by no means dead, however, and the sole immediate results, to Moussa, were penal diet, solitary confinement in his palatial cell, a severe sentence of corn-grinding with the heavy quern, and most joyous recollections of the sound of the water-can on the pate of the foe.

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life

People did say that the pestilence hung like a murky vapor above the district, and hid the sun. Trades were slack, corn-grinding amongst the rest, and Master Lake did the housework, helped by Jan and Abel. He was stunned by the suddenness and the weight of the calamity which had come to him. He was very kind to Mrs.

Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing - Jan of the Windmill

Morva nodded and bent to her work again, and the white sunbonnet leant against Daisy once more, and the sweet voice sang the old melody. When her pail was full she sighed as she watched Gwilym Morris and Will disappear through the lane to the high road. The annual corn-grinding. Ebben Owens was going to market in his rough jolting car, Dyc "pigstye" beside him, both dressed in their best frieze.

Allen Raine - Garthowen: A Story of a Welsh Homestead

The hickory gave the frontiersman wood for all implements and furnishings where the demand was equally for lightness, strength, and elasticity. It provided his straight logs for building, his block mortars hollowed by fire and stone for corn-grinding, his solid plain furniture, his axles, rifle butts, ax handles, and so forth.

Constance Lindsay Skinner - Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground