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Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers.
In other respects—never having been appealed to by love—it was as hard as a small millstone.
THE FLOATING LIGHT OF THE GOODWIN SANDSR.M. BALLANTYNE
He owed them money, which at present he could not pay; his undischarged “debts of honour” hung like a millstone round his neck.
JULIAN HOMEDEAN FREDERIC W. FARRAR
It was a thin slab, roughly circular in shape; not unlike what one might suppose a millstone to be in the rough.
THE DEVIL-TREE OF EL DORADOFRANK AUBREY
I soon found he was a regular millstone round my neck—particularly when we were on the “walk-about.”
THE ADVENTURES OF LOUIS DE ROUGEMONTLOUIS DE ROUGEMONT
Would it not be better for him to tie a millstone round his neck and cast himself into the sea?
ORLEY FARMANTHONY TROLLOPE
They marry, and in this small world of ours they give a hostage as heavy as a millstone of their chances of happiness.
MR. GREX OF MONTE CARLOE. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
"But Moses was the first lawgiver to forbid taking the nether millstone as a pledge," objected Robin.
THE MASTER-KNOT OF HUMAN FATEELLIS MEREDITH
The boy put down the book and leaped out of the open door, barely touching the old millstone that served for a step.
THE VILLAGE WATCH-TOWER(AKA KATE DOUGLAS RIGGS) KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN
The unfortunate man offered no resistance, but the agony depicted on his face might have melted the heart of a millstone.
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WORDS RELATED TO MILLSTONE
- Herculean task
- accountability
- affliction
- albatross
- anxiety
- ball and chain
- blame
- care
- charge
- clog
- concern
- deadweight
- difficulty
- duty
- encumbrance
- excess baggage
- grievance
- hardship
- hindrance
- load
- millstone
- misfortune
- mishap
- obstruction
- onus
- punishment
- responsibility
- sorrow
- strain
- task
- tax
- trial
- trouble
- weary load
- work
- worry
- Herculean task
- accountability
- affliction
- albatross
- anxiety
- ball and chain
- blame
- care
- charge
- clog
- concern
- deadweight
- difficulty
- duty
- encumbrance
- excess baggage
- grievance
- hardship
- hindrance
- load
- millstone
- misfortune
- mishap
- obstruction
- onus
- punishment
- responsibility
- sorrow
- strain
- task
- tax
- trial
- trouble
- weary load
- work
- worry
- ado
- aggravation
- annoyance
- anxiety
- bafflement
- bother
- care
- charge
- complication
- crisis
- depression
- discouragement
- distress
- embarrassment
- emergency
- exigency
- frustration
- grievance
- hangup
- harassment
- imbroglio
- inconvenience
- irritation
- jam
- maze
- mess
- millstone
- misery
- oppression
- perplexity
- pickle
- pinch
- predicament
- pressure
- puzzle
- quandary
- ramification
- responsibility
- scrape
- setback
- strain
- strait
- stress
- strife
- struggle
- to-do
- trouble
- vicissitude
- weight
- worry
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.