Millrace

The millrace is a choke of earth, a whisper of weeds. ❋ Unknown (1972)

Just above the millrace was a quiet pool under the bank where great, fragrant water-lilies floated upon the surface. ❋ Amy Bell Marlowe (N/A)

Last week, over a meadow by the millrace, one exited left, pursued by a crow, issuing an agitated stream of peeps. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the morning he discovered that Mouse had been right—the boat still bobbed like a cork in a millrace, but the air was clear, the sea sparkled, and Edoran was actually hungry! ❋ Hilari Bell (2009)

On the Saturday evening she threw herself from the footbridge into the millrace. ❋ Unknown (2008)

No. You must solve the riddle of the millrace as your conscience will allow you — if you have any conscience still left. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the nineteenth century, the rivière la chute was made into a millrace. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

She stumbled down the calada, holding her skirts above her ankles to prevent them being soaked by the water cascading over the cobbles like a millrace. ❋ Mosse, Kate (2007)

That a head in thighs under a bush at the sunface would bait a serpent to a millrace through the heather. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Near the sawmill shore, near what might have been safety, the ice simply ended in a deep flow of river water from the millrace. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But in January of 1848 a carpenter from New Jersey saw something shining at the bottom of a millrace at Coloma, California, and within a year Central America re-emerged from the shadows. ❋ DAVID McCULLOUGH. (2005)

The dust of the coach was visible before the four-horse team itself appeared coming down the gentle slope to the millrace bridge. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2005)

From the maps Kharl had studied and from what Hagen had said, the wizard could be accompanying rebel troops heading to join battle against Casolan's forces or riding westward to destroy the millrace and dam. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2005)

All that was left were the stone sides of the dried-up millrace and the mud-brick walls of the foundation, both blackened from the flame of the skylances. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2005)