"Quern" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... honour Have, and do no kind of labour, Nor do no good, and yet have laud, And that men ween'd that Belle Isaude *Could them not of love wern;* *could not refuse them her love* And yet she that grinds at the quern* *mill Is all too good to ease their heart." This Aeolus anon upstart, And with his blacke clarioun He gan to blazen out a soun' As loud as bellows wind in hell; And eke therewith, the sooth to tell, This sounde was so full of japes,* *jests As ever were mows* in apes; *grimaces ...
— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer
... interest to every man, woman and child in the plantation. Till that began its tireless turning, the grain for every loaf of bread had to be carried to Watertown mill, or ground laboriously in a hand quern, or parched and brayed in a mortar, Indian fashion. Before the starting of his saw-mill, the rude houses must have been of logs, stone, and clay, for it was an impossibility to bring from the lower towns on the existing ...
— Bay State Monthly, Vol. II. No. 5, February, 1885 - A Massachusetts Magazine • Various
... Folklore from the Hebrides," Folk-lore, xiii. (1902) p. 41. The St. Michael's cake (Struthan na h'eill Micheil), referred to in the text, is described as "the size of a quern" in circumference. "It is kneaded simply with water, and marked across like a scone, dividing it into four equal parts, and then placed in front of the fire resting on a quern. It is not polished with dry meal as is usual in making a cake, but when it is cooked a thin coating of eggs (four in ...
— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer
... flowed from the well of Neamhtach or Pearly. But he was told it was this stream that had turned the first water mill in Ireland and that Cormac had put up the mill to save a beautiful bond-maid from toiling at the quern. ...
— The Untilled Field • George Moore
... Yes, yes, I know you, you are he That frighten all the villagree; Skim milk, and labour in the quern, And bootless make the huswife churn; Or make the drink to bear no barm, Laughing at their loss and harm, But call you Robin, and sweet Puck, You do their work, and bring ...
— A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare (1763) • William Shakespeare
... goodwife rises, wakens her handmaidens, lights the fire, and prepares for the Afur or morning meal. The quern is here unknown [20]. A flat, smooth, oval slab, weighing about fifteen pounds, and a stone roller six inches in diameter, worked with both hands, and the weight of the body kneeling ungracefully upon it on "all fours," are ...
— First footsteps in East Africa • Richard F. Burton
... Blackbanks from its extraordinarily black soil, over a yard deep in places, and the more remarkable because the soil of the surrounding fields is stiff yellowish clay, showed other indications of long and very ancient habitation. Among the relics found was a stone quern, measuring about 21 inches by 12 by 7-3/4, and having, on each of two opposite sides, a basin-shaped depression about 6 inches in diameter at the top, and 2-3/4 inches in depth; also a small stone ring, 1-1/4 inches in diameter, ...
— Grain and Chaff from an English Manor • Arthur H. Savory
... woe to bend the stubborn back Above the grinching quern, It's woe to hear the leg-bar clack ...
— Verses 1889-1896 • Rudyard Kipling
... broken quern was brought to light when digging the foundation of Otterbourne Grange; and bits of pottery have come to light in various fields at Hursley, especially from the barrows on Cranbury Common. In 1882 and 1883 the Dowager Lady Heathcote, assisted by Captain John Thorp, began to search the ...
— John Keble's Parishes • Charlotte M Yonge |
