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
One day they dug up a quern.
"The Adventure of Living"
John St. Loe Strachey
quern deus vult perdere, prius dementat, Ponsonby, my boy.
"Winds of the World"
Talbot Mundy