Near the milldam was the millpond, deep and full of fish; a little mill with a thatched roof was working away with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chorus Girl and Other Stories] Reference

No comfort there: the milldam was ahead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harbinger Hall] Reference

A picket of 50 men in fort Putnam, 25 in fort Box, a sergt. & 12 men at the milldam from the 9th, 11th, 12th Regts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference

The 'six hundred and twenty thousand tons of water each minute' nearly ceased to flow, and dwindled away into the appearance of a mere milldam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference

There has been no rain since the first of May, and how the jolly old miller will laugh till the tears fill his eyes when he sees the water rise in the milldam. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference

Kennaquhair, or because it agrees with scenes of the Monastery in the circumstances of the drawbridge, the milldam, and other points of resemblance, that therefore an accurate or perfect local similitude is to be found in all the particulars of the picture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monastery] Reference

The milldam and pond were our favorite rallying-point.    From Wordnik.com.  [The end of an era,] Reference

"We have never taken the boat up the river beyond the village, on account of the milldam.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3)] Reference

Lannes 'sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam and forming up within twice the range of a musket shot.    From Wordnik.com.  [War and Peace] Reference

A man working on a milldam kept on for an hour after nightfall on Saturday to finish it, and next day his child fell into a well and was drowned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chief End of Man] Reference

It was found, however, that it could be drained; but at certain seasons of the year surface water would accumulate from the overflow of a milldam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings] Reference

The time at which we crossed the milldam, being in the last days of April, the water was lower than it had been since the breaking of winter in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections)] Reference

On the river Wharfe, near Otley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, is a weir or milldam where this phenomenon is sometimes manifested in a striking manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays in Natural History and Agriculture] Reference

What would be said of a mill-owner who should let his milldam wash away once or twice each year, and then rebuild it instead of keeping it in constant repair?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road and the Roadside] Reference

You know, when the water is low in the milldam, the miller cannot drive his wheel; but the moment the water comes up to a certain level it has force to work the mill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life] Reference

Winthrop gives the case of a man who, having hired help to repair a milldam, worked an hour on Saturday after sunset to finish what he had intended for the day's labor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference

` ` Vera true, kinswoman, 'said the Bailie; ` ` but for a that, the burn wad be glad to hae the milldam back again in simmer, when the chuckie-stanes are white in the sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Roy] Reference

How when Widow Norton's only son could not be found, he dived into the deep hole of the intake of the milldam of the great Carstone mills where Wingate the farrier had been drowned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man] Reference

Monastery in the circumstances of the drawbridge, the milldam, and other points of resemblance, that therefore an accurate or perfect local similitude is to be found in all the particulars of the picture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monastery] Reference

More often than not when I go for my skating to our cosy little river, a winding mile from the milldam to the railroad trestle, the hills are clothed in silver mist which frames them in vignettes with blurred edges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winter Mist] Reference

The heavens poured down their wrath upon the incontinent milldam; the winds rushed, with a confounding energy, over this desolate tract, driving the waters before them in torrents; and away went the rickety old breastwork, with all the imprisoned pool behind it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.] Reference

This is the milldam, and the pond above is no natural one, but the enforced repose and outspreading of a merry brown brook, which now shows its true nature, and escaping from the gloomy pool, runs scolding and foaming down through a wilderness of rocks and trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queen Hildegarde] Reference

Sometimes ninety per cent. of the water of a stream is taken away to drive a milldam or do work, and only ten per cent. can be spared to trickle down the half-dry channel and do nothing but reflect the bright sun and help the little flowers and the grass to grow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)] Reference

I was driven back by the storm, and in taking another direction, which was equally as bad, I rode into a gentleman's barn-yard and inquired about the road; they gave me directions as best they could, and I attempted to follow it, but found myself and horse jammed up at the head of a milldam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of Rev. Thomas W. Henry, of the A. M. E. Church] Reference

He has twenty times asserted that the site of the milldam was never surveyed: and there they have the very document of the survey itself, which is shown to him every time he makes the assertion; he looks at it, and, as we all suppose, is convinced; -- but, in the next minute, commences anew with the same objection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.] Reference

The weather was lovely, the sea like a milldam, and favourable beyond expression to light draught and gossamer craft, such as are these blockade-runners, which lightly scratch the surface instead of clutching the ribs of old ocean, and which in summer seas have no more to fear from heavy seagoing craft, like the Rhode Island or the Vanderbilt, than has the Irish might-express from the lumbering freight-train which leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Running the Blockade into the Port of Wilmington, North Carolina] Reference

Cannon and musketry, mingling together, thundered on the right and in the center, while the capotes of Lannes’ sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam and forming up within twice the range of a musket shot.    From Wordnik.com.  [War and Peace] Reference

"Vera true, kinswoman," said the Bailie; "but for a 'that, the burn wad be glad to hae the milldam back again in simmer, when the chuckie-stanes are white in the sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Roy — Complete] Reference

"My dear boy," said Edward, "after getting a certain amount of knowledge, other knowledge comes very fast; it gathers like a snowball -- or perhaps it would be better to illustrate the fact by a milldam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life] Reference

And so it is with knowledge; when once you get it up to a certain level, you can 'work your mill,' with this great advantage over the milldam, that the stream of knowledge, once reaching the working level, never runs dry. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life] Reference

While fishing in the milldam-water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson] Reference

The milldam rushing down with noise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson] Reference

A’ that, the burn wad be glad to hae the milldam back again in simmer, when the chuckie-stanes are white in the sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Roy] Reference

A milldam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller] Reference