ตัวอย่าง millstone

• The mill had a 4.5m backshot wheel, and water-power was once harnessed for bellows for lead-smelting, then from around 1750 to drive millstones to grind grain.

• They were ground between the upper and the nether millstones.

• They are millstones hanging on the back of the city, and they are getting heavier.

• I wonder whether we are being ground between the upper and the nether millstones.

• They put millstones round their necks in the process.

• In a war, when it rages, they are ground and powdered almost between two heavy millstones.

• I feel it will be one of the greatest millstones ever hung round the neck of that long-suffering industry.

• Surely there should be some provision for him to escape from being ground between these two millstones.

• They are rather like corn between the upper and nether millstones, and they often find that they are ground down.

• Men and women are being caught between the upper and the nether millstones of these conditions.

• I regard them as three millstones because they have been dragging the industry down.

• He is caught between the upper and the lower millstones.

• There are many other millstones both in the public and private sectors of our industry.

• In short, they amount to financial millstones which must be dealt with.

• Such people cannot put millstones round their necks in order to get houses which would cost £2,000 or £2,500, with very high interest rates.