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" The rush of the water and the booming of the mill bring a dreamy deafness, which seems to heighten the peacefulness of the scene. They are like a great curtain of sound, shutting one out from the world beyond. "
New Nash's Pall Mall Magazine - Page 418
1903
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The Mill on the Floss, Volume 2

George Eliot - 1860 - 478 pages
...water here among the 'withes, unmindful of the awkward appearance they make in -"the drier world above. The rush of the water and the booming of the mill...of sound, shutting one out from the world beyond. And now there is the thunder of the huge covered wagon, coming home with sacks of grain. That honest...
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The Mill on the Floss, Volume 1

George Eliot - 1860 - 382 pages
...water here among the withes, unmindful of the awkward appearance they make in the drier world above. The rush of the water, and the booming of the mill,...like a great curtain of sound, shutting one out from i the world beyond. And now there is the thunder of the huge covered waggon coming home with sacks...
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The mill on the Floss, by George Eliot. Stereoptyped ed

Mary Ann Evans - 1867 - 628 pages
...water here among the withes, unmindful of the awkward appearance they make in the drier world above. The rush of the water, and the booming of the mill,...of sound, shutting one out from the world beyond. And now there is the thunder of the huge covered waggon coming home with sacks of grain. That honest...
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Novels [of George Eliot], Volume 2

George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pages
...water here among the withes, unmindful of the awkward appearance they make in the drier world above. The rush of the water, and the booming of the mill,...of sound, shutting one out from the world beyond. Aud now there is the thunder of. the huge covered wagon coining home with sacks of grain. That honest...
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The First[-fifth] Reader ...

Edward Austin Sheldon - 1875 - 446 pages
...water, here among the withes, unmindful of the awkward appearance they make in the drier world above. 5. The rush of the water and the booming of the mill...of sound, shutting one out from the world beyond. Now, there is the thunder of the huge covered wagon, coming home with sacks of grain. That honest wagoner...
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The Works of George Eliot: Mill on the Floss

George Eliot - 1878 - 440 pages
...water here among the withes, unmindful of the awkward appearance they make in the drier world above. The rush of the water, and the booming of the mill,...of sound, shutting one out from the world beyond. And now there is the thunder of the huge covered waggon coming home with sacks of grain. That honest...
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The Mill on the Floss: Scenes of Clerical Life

George Eliot - 1883 - 850 pages
...water here among the withes, unmindful of the awkward appearance they make in the drier world above. The rush of the water and the booming of the mill...of sound, shutting one out from the world beyond. And now there is the thunder of the huge covered wagon, coming home with sacks of grain. That honest...
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The English Novel and the Principle of Its Development

Sidney Lanier - 1883 - 312 pages
...a sort of dreamy prelude of reminiscences, and in describing Dorlcote Mill, Maggie's home, says : " The rush of the water and the booming of the mill...peacefulness of the scene. They are like a great curtain of sounds shutting one out from the world beyond. And now there is the thunder of the huge covered wagon...
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The new London readers. 6th reader

London readers - 1884 - 216 pages
...here among the withes,* unmindful of the awkward appearance they make in the drier world above. 5. The rush of the water and the booming of the mill...of sound, shutting one out from the world beyond. Now, there is the thunder of the huge covered wagon, coming home with sacks of grain. That honest wagoner...
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Works

George Eliot - 1886 - 516 pages
...water here among the withes, unmindful of the awkward appearance they make in the drier world above. The rush of the water and the booming of the mill...of sound, shutting one out from the world beyond. And now there is the thunder of the huge covered wagon coming home with •sacks of grain. That honest...
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