All 7 Uses of
premise
in
The Mill on the Floss
- Tom had been too much interested in his talk with Luke, in going the round of the premises, walking in and out where he pleased, and whittling sticks without any particular reason,—except that he didn't whittle sticks at school,—to think of Maggie and the effect his anger had produced on her.†
Chpt 1.5
- As usual, the thought pressed upon her that people would think she had done something wicked to deserve her maternal troubles, while Mrs. Pullet began to give elaborate directions to Sally how to guard the premises from serious injury in the course of removing the dirt.†
Chpt 1.10
- Aunt Pullet was quite willing to take the shortest means of restoring her premises to order and quiet, and it was not long before Mrs. Tulliver was in the chaise, looking anxiously at the most distant point before her.†
Chpt 1.10
- For Guest & Co. had not bought the mill; both mill and land had been knocked down to Wakem, who had been over the premises, and had laid before Mr. Deane and Mr. Glegg, in Mrs. Tulliver's presence, his willingness to employ Mr. Tulliver, in case of his recovery, as a manager of the business.†
Chpt 3.8
- But the strongest influence of all was the love of the old premises where he had run about when he was a boy, just as Tom had done after him.†
Chpt 3.9
- Very well! you may leave my premises to-morrow, then; hold your insolent tongue and let me pass.†
Chpt 5.7 *
- To think that the very day—the _very day_—after Tom had come back from Newcastle, that unfortunate young Jetsome, whom Mr. Wakem had placed at the Mill, had been pitched off his horse in a drunken fit, and was lying at St. Ogg's in a dangerous state, so that Wakem had signified his wish that the new purchasers should enter on the premises at once!†
Chpt 6.12
Definition:
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(premise as in: the premise of the argument) something assumed to be true and upon which other things are based