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    milled


    1. Already, people milled and swarmed


    2. It was a complete picture! For a moment I thought she was going to explode with embarrassment – you know what she’s like … well, we all milled about helping ourselves to the buffet and the various people gave some short speeches


    3. For a moment the gang of thugs milled around


    4. People milled around as though there was no destination


    5. As they milled around the kitchen he demanded an answer but


    6. Twenty-four hours a day, prostitutes milled about and tourists slammed tequila down their throats, often becoming incoherent within minutes, while the bargirls in their company, intent upon the contents of their wallets, sipped expensive cocktails of colored water and offered gleeful encouragement


    7. I know at least one pilot on our side who milled down the cylinder heads on his rotary-engine scout, gaining the ability to climb, ‘a couple of thousand feet higher than the rest of the squadron


    8. Reaching the barbed wire fence at the far side, they milled about, the ones nearest the fence getting caught on the barbs, tearing lumps of fleece from their coats


    9. Three times, she hobbled through the crowded open square, which was simply a block in the pueblo’s center without buildings, trees, or pavement: just a hot, lumpy, dusty, place where buses arrived, departed and throngs of people milled about


    10. The artillery was moved back up the valley while we seemingly milled around in confusion and indecision beneath the enemy fort for two more days until the relief force came into view

    11. College kids milled around the square in hordes, and Manda had to jump out of the way of a boy who came flying over the stone steps in the middle of a skateboard stunt


    12. The crowd was whipped into a frenzy by now and a multitude of suits and cocktail dresses milled about like headless chickens


    13. Adults milled around


    14. The guards responding to Youssaf’s cry of alarm and a sudden murmuring among the inmates all around him, reflexively advanced again a short distance toward the greater crowd then stopped, some pointing as others milled around in the confusion of sight and sound


    15. Now the whole herd milled around sampling and bawling, as the surprise was shared


    16. At length, when assured that no bones were broken, cradling her in his arms, he lifted her and walked slowly, carefully to where the others milled around in momentary confusion


    17. A large contingent of Egyptian foot soldiers milled around in some confusion at the bottom of the hill


    18. stopped, some pointing as others milled around in the confusion of sight and sound


    19. lifted her and walked slowly, carefully to where the others milled around in momentary


    20. milled around in some confusion at the bottom of the hill

    21. Behind the affray, more beasts, that had once been civilized beings, milled about uncaring, waiting for their turn to move through the small breach, as arrows and projectiles rained down on them


    22. The other ex-scarecrows milled around for a while, swapping confused stories and trying to remember how they got to the farm


    23. After greasepaint and costumes were removed, friends milled backstage offering congratulations, getting in the way of stage crew who had already started dismantling the set


    24. The tourists milled around the temple and pointed at the holy relic, the emerald, the statue, the architecture and the monks


    25. “I think he went to Phnom Penh, I heard him tell the taxi driver,” interrupted one of the tuk-tuk drivers who milled around the hotel reception


    26. Some people had gathered in the pastures and a few milled around looking above the cave wall where a few moments ago they’d seen a terrific light illuminated the cave and now became focused on the lift as the three cautiously stepped out


    27. No one had ordered them to quarters or to practice, they milled about with the other new recruits until a sergeant bellowed at them to follow


    28. Luke stepped back rapidly, letting go of Corwin’s hand and got out of the way of the horses which milled around in confusion at the rapid method of transportation


    29. The throng seethed and milled, yelling and screaming


    30. Under the great tower beside the royal palace the people swirled and milled, screaming their hate at Arpello, who stood on the turrets and laughed down at them while his archers ranged the parapets, bolts drawn and fingers on the triggers of their arbalests

    31. In the streets the fighting milled and eddied, plumed helmets and steel caps tossed among the tousled heads and then vanished; swords hacked madly in a heaving forest of pikes, and over all rose the roar of the mob, shouts of acclaim mingling with screams of blood-lust and howls of agony


    32. And while the gleaming ranks milled in confusion, the trumpets of Conan sounded, and through the opening ranks of the archers crashed the terrible charge of the Aquilonian knights


    33. In the great square of Tarantia the frantic throng milled and yammered, screaming that the king was dead, that the barons were girding themselves to divide the land between them, and that the rule of a king, even of Valerius, was better than anarchy


    34. Tim milled around for a short time, than he got an idea


    35. They milled in small groups as was their custom discussing their impressions of the disaster that had shaken them to their roots


    36. To his right, approximately fifteen feet, the heavily-favored Rutherford Vikings milled about their dugout, donning their orange and white jerseys


    37. where around, the grains and small seeds were never milled or ground


    38. There was no cheering or applause whatever from the freed slaves, they seemed totally confused and they milled around not knowing what to do, obviously waiting for someone to tell them, a sad and sorry looking assortment of humanity, seeing that they were being ignored some of the slaves began to wander off, others sat down and watched as I mustered our party, retrieved our arrows, then stripped the dead of their weapons and armour, Coatl then ordered the heads of the enemy be laid in a line on the temple steps, when this was accomplished we set off for Bo-elon, this would be my first visit to the citadel, I had heard Coatl talk of it so often and was looking forward to getting there, I could see no signs of a trail, I did notice that we seemed to go back on ourselves quite often, one of the Toxon explained that this was to avoid the traps they had laid, I was very surprised when Coatl said we were there, I looked around but could see no refuge, we had climbed the foothills with still no evidence of a trail we then crossed a sandy dry creek and surprisingly entered the cave entrance, two guards bowed low and with big grins on their faces greeted us, apparently we were the last party to return to the stronghold


    39. melodies of the birds as they milled about inside the warm glow


    40. and staff milled about in a disorganized mixture of yelling voices

    41. monument, fountain, mill (where grain is milled into flour), castle, tower (high


    42. The panel appeared to be nothing more than a stainless steel plate, with a series of fine parallel lines milled into its surface


    43. One of the customers who milled about stepped to the counter and gave her a slip of paper as well as his order


    44. With a heavy heart, he changed direction, and headed back towards the confused cocktail of witches, Sirens, soldiers and cave-trolls who milled around the pathway ahead


    45. Suong told me everything in that windmill as the grindstone milled my chaffed thoughts


    46. Other slaves milled about trying to find out what had happened, but were soon herded towards the caves by the Warriors


    47. The section seemed to be writhing and moving as the yellow coloured bodies came alive and milled about


    48. Warriors milled about but paid no attention to the slaves


    49. Thousands of people milled around in the Kathmandu airport


    50. During our constant disputes we, as they say, beat the air, milled the wind, spending our time in vain







































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    Synonyms for "milled"

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    "milled" definitions

    (of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed