The millrace is a choke of earth, a whisper of weeds. From Wordnik.com. [POEMS BY CIARAN CARSON, 1966-1972] Reference
Just above the millrace was a quiet pool under the bank where great, fragrant water-lilies floated upon the surface. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
The millrace isn't really as decayed as you'd think. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Endress had come so near being drowned in the millrace. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
But his thoughts were running like a tumultuous millrace. From Wordnik.com. ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference
The dark dirt is thought to be an outflow for the millrace. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Mt. Vernon - Excavation of the Distillery 1999-2002] Reference
How will Barney Doran's millrace agree with your motor-boats?. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
It instead appears to be related to the millrace farther upslope. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Mt. Vernon - Dig Diaries: Report 9] Reference
The water poured through the millrace, and the great wheel turned. From Wordnik.com. [Seventh Son]
The south side excavations with the mill and millrace in background. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Mt. Vernon - Dig Diaries: Report 9] Reference
Volunteer Summer at the southern edge of the millrace outflow feature. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Mt. Vernon - Dig Diaries: Report 12] Reference
Between the two buildings runs a millrace with an overshot waterwheel. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Engineer]
It also appears to originate farther uphill (west) toward the millrace. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Mt. Vernon - Dig Diaries: Report 9] Reference
Lacey also excavated one of two postholes south of the millrace outflow. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Mt. Vernon - Dig Diaries: Report 13] Reference
It was the boy who had been saved from the millrace that August afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
Then the hills closed in on the river and the current ran like a millrace. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
The high wooded bank seemed miles away, and the river ran like a millrace. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
He was riding the far bank up and down, between river and millrace, alone. From Wordnik.com. [One Corpse Too Many]
The mill was of old gray stones and sat beside a stone dam and a millrace. From Wordnik.com. [The White Order]
The room smelled of dried corn, old wood, the mossy millrace, falling water. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
He looked upstream, in the direction of the millrace, but he could not see it. From Wordnik.com. [Wellspring of Chaos]
Finally, Kharl could see the stones of the lower spillway of Vetrad's millrace. From Wordnik.com. [Wellspring of Chaos]
On the Saturday evening she threw herself from the footbridge into the millrace. From Wordnik.com. [Rosmersholm] Reference
If the millrace wasn't flooding, then an outflow may no longer have been necessary. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Mt. Vernon - Dig Diaries: Report 10] Reference
Where do the features around the millrace outflow intersect, and what will it mean?. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Mt. Vernon - Dig Diaries: Report 13] Reference
Across the single room in the hut, blankets roiled and heaved like water in a millrace. From Wordnik.com. [Conan and The Mists of Door]
Mandy then moved to another feature on the north and south sides of the millrace outflow. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Mt. Vernon - Dig Diaries: Report 16] Reference
Mandy excavated portions of this feature running parallel and south of the millrace outflow. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Mt. Vernon - Dig Diaries: Report 15] Reference
In regards to the spillway as it exists on the millrace today, it is a modern reconstruction. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Mt. Vernon - Ask an Archaeologist] Reference
The millrace outflow that we've identified archaeologically is not related to the modern one. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Mt. Vernon - Ask an Archaeologist] Reference
Someday, I intended to use the small stream for my own millrace, and cut and season my own wood. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Chaos]
He was drowning -- swiftly and surely -- while the current bore him steadily toward the millrace. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
We think it would have served as an emergency outflow for water when the millrace was overflowing. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Mt. Vernon - Ask an Archaeologist] Reference
Bob never got over talking about that August afternoon, that seemed so long ago, when Nancy had helped to rescue him from the millrace. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
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