mill-stream

He ran his farm and his lumber business and his turpentine business sitting on the front porch overlooking the mill-stream.

Dream State Diane Roberts 2008

He was coming down the mill-stream meadow toward the wooden bridge, carrying a fishing rod, but clearly not intent on angling.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

We crossed the mill-stream in the hollow — to their white, thatched dwelling; silent, already awed, almost resentful of this so-varying Scheme of Things.

The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays 2004

Sure enough, on the bank of the river, which was fully 400 yards wide, and swirling like a mill-stream with a suppressed roar, there was an official order prohibiting the crossing of man or beast, and before I had time to think the mago had deposited the baggage on an islet in the mire and was over the crest of the hill.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

The water whirled with the rapidity of a mill-stream; ten more seconds and our brains would have been dashed against the unyielding stone.

Loaded Dice Swain, James 2004

And Jacques did beg her pardon in a manner of his own twenty times, sitting by the gurgling mill-stream, and to tell the truth

La Vend�e 2004

Accordingly, the attempt was made, but it failed of success; for when our people, by the joint assistance of their boats and the breeze, had reached the opening, they found that it had become high water; and, to their great surprise, they met the tide of ebb running out like a mill-stream.

Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

Accordingly, the attempt was made, but it failed of success; for when our people, by the joint assistance of their boats and the breeze, had reached the opening, they found that it had become high water; and, to their great surprise, they met the tide of ebb running out like a mill-stream.

Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

In a few minutes more they were walking in deep darkness and silence, side by side, along the path, which diverging from the mill-road, penetrates the coppice of that sequestered gorge, along the bottom of which flows a tributary brook that finds its way a little lower down into the mill-stream.

Wylder's Hand 2003

Crossing, at last, the frozen mill-stream - whose wheel in summer still turned a barren mechanism - we climbed up to Joseph's farm.

Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959