Near the milldam was the millpond, deep and full of fish; a little mill with a thatched roof was working away with ❋ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1882)
Maybe the water waltzing over the milldam and a hearty meal of pork chops glazed with an apple bourbon sauce were exactly what I needed to take my mind off my mother. ❋ Lynne Griffin (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (2008)
With all the bridges over the River Main blown out, Anderson confiscated an abandoned wooden boat and he and the intelligence officer, both seasoned fishermen, rowed across to Schweinfurt, battling a heavy current that threatened to carry the party of four over a milldam. ❋ Donald L. Miller (2006)
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. ❋ Henry P. Johnston (N/A)
But at that they had made good time through their chase and within a very few minutes the last bend of the river showed them the milldam. ❋ Gordon Stuart (N/A)
Almost due west of that was the milldam, which was about the only place they could hope to be able to cross Plum Run -- and Watertown lay on the other side. ❋ Gordon Stuart (N/A)
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. ' ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
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. ❋ Barkham Burroughs (N/A)
Compared to the machine of 1939 its effective horsepower is as Niagara Hydro to the Kleinberg milldam of my boyhood, which used to turn the wheels only when Ben Hogben remembered to pull the stop-log. ❋ Unknown (1942)
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. ❋ Unknown (1921)
At the milldam the hockey players furiously rage together, but I heed them not, and in a moment am beyond the first bend, where their clamor comes softened on the air like that of a distant convention of politic crows. ❋ Unknown (1921)
Invective against a refractory House of Burgesses brought them a quarter of a mile upon their way; the necessity for an act to encourage adventurers in iron works carried them past a milldam; and frauds in the customs enabled them to reach a crossroads ordinary, where the Colonel ordered a halt, and called for a tankard of ale. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
The milldam and pond were our favorite rallying-point. ❋ Unknown (1899)
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. ❋ Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1896)
` ` 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. ❋ Unknown (1887)
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? ❋ Burton Willis Potter (1885)
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. ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)
