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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the mercy of this resentment, this hateful millstone envy of the Calibans of this world.
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He could choreograph for the company that was coming to feel like a millstone , and he could tour.
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In the centre was inset yet another millstone seeded with yellow stone-crop.
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It regulated the output but not the power of a millstone .
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Now the speculators have hit hard times and are desperately trying to off-load the cars which have become millstones around their necks.
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Paradoxically, Anthea now threatened to become a millstone to drag him down.
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These colonies are millstones around our necks, as a noble lord of my acquaintance once said.
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This particular heritage may be a millstone around the neck of scientific natural history.