The water foaming against the wheels like a millstream. From Wordnik.com. [Nearly Lost but Dearly Won] Reference
The French infantry lay by the millstream as though on a holiday. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Siege]
It was a glorious sunny day, we could see the swans down in the millstream guddling around and someone had brought home made cake. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
He said, ‘Biddy Early’s cure that you heard of, between the two wheels of Ballylee, it was the moss on the water of the millstream. From Wordnik.com. [Later Articles and Reviews] Reference
In the bottom of Radland valley, along the millstream, overgrown laurel and box hedges sprawl beneath the weight of snow and will remain in shadow all day. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley] Reference
The setting is a location remarkably like Grange Farm, where “through the open window the unhappy couple could hear the water in the millstream going over the dam far down the valley.”. From Wordnik.com. [Storyteller] Reference
The occupants of the dining-room listened too, and not merely now to the flow of the millstream: there was a nearer, though a muffled sound on the road below the churchyard; a measured, beating, approaching sound. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
The stone walls and massive timbers were exposed; the maple floor was sanded to the color of honey; and every table had a view of the mill wheel, which creaked and turned incessantly although the millstream had dried up seventy years before. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare]
The current was swifter than any millstream, yet the boat was pushed slowly up until we reached the entrance to a canal, smaller than that at Lachine, for it was only 2-1/2 feet deep and so narrow that the crew jumped it when they wished to cross. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825] Reference
Sharpe's more immediate concerns were the pike that decimated the millstream trout and the crumbling sill of the weir that threatened to collapse and inundate Lucille's water meadows, and he did not want to think of far-off countries and corrupt governments and missing soldiers. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
The catalpa tree on the island in the millstream here was planted in memory of a lost child. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The warm welcome of an open fire, mixed with the tranquil, gentle flow of the millstream. From Wordnik.com. [ireland.com Breaking News] Reference
At sight of the empty gig, she uttered a single despairing shriek, and started at a run down the bank, and over the millstream. From Wordnik.com. [The Miller of Old Church] Reference
The water whirled with the rapidity of a millstream; ten more seconds and our brains would have been dashed against the unyielding stone. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Andes] Reference
But my mother said it was impossible, -- that there was but one way to save the life of my pet, and that was to take him down to the millstream and fling him in. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Many Lands] Reference
The millstream banks, overgrown with willow, hazel, and guelder-rose, made convenient places to wait in till your turn came; and a grown-up who had seen it said that. From Wordnik.com. [Puck of Pook's Hill] Reference
For as the sluice gates opened a sullen roar sounded; on one side the diverted millstream, and on the other the river, rose as two solid walls of water, rushed forward and -- met. From Wordnik.com. [Cleek, the Master Detective] Reference
Myself and these two neighbors of mine have tied up every dollar we can rake and scrape to build a water-plant for our little village and give our folks clean water from a lake, not the rotten poison you would pump out of our millstream for us. From Wordnik.com. [The Landloper] Reference
The seat they had chosen was in an open grove of elm and walnut trees, at a right angle of the road; a spring of diamond water just bubbled into the moonlight beside them, and then whimpered away through the bushes and long grass, in search of a neighboring millstream. From Wordnik.com. [An Old Woman's Tale (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches")] Reference
Sometimes we were at the top of one wave, while my pet shark, who had faithfully followed us, would be in the trough below, looking no larger than a minnow in a millstream, and sometimes when we were at the bottom we could see him looking lovingly down upon us, high above our topgallant-mast-head. From Wordnik.com. [Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days] Reference
It’s the creaking that drives me up the wall, and the tape recording of a rushing millstream has a psychological effect on diners. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare]
Now from the mountains it cometh in three great forces, and many smaller ones, and perilous and awful it is to behold; for betwixt those forces it filleth all the mountain ghyll, and there is no foothold for man, nay for goat, save at a hundred foot or more above the water, and that evil and perilous; and is the running of a winter millstream to the beetles and shrew-mice that haunt the greensward beside it, so is the running of that flood to the sons of. From Wordnik.com. [The Sundering Flood] Reference
Was a sawboy, and fell into the millstream. From Wordnik.com. [Wellspring of Chaos]
Here, the opposing sides of the glen approaching each other, and becoming clothed with brushwood and stunted oaks, formed a wooded ravine; at the bottom of which ran the millstream, in broken unquiet course, struggling with many stones, chafing against rugged banks, fretting with gnarled tree-roots, foaming, gurgling, battling as it went. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
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