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To the right the mill-pool stretched away between its grassy banks, a faint bloom of lingering mist blurring its silver surface, and beyond, the wall of the abbey enclave arose, and the arch of the gatehouse.

The Hermit of Eyton Forest Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1987

To the right the mill-pool stretched away between its grassy banks, a faint bloom of lingering mist blurring its silver surface, and beyond, the wall of the abbey enclave arose, and the arch of the gatehouse.

The Hermit of Eyton Forest Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1987

Give him his due, he was no coward, he would not run first to the sergeants and get a bodyguard, he would storm forth by the mill-pool to challenge his opponent face to face, denounce, possibly even attempt to overpower him with his own hands, certainly cry him outlaw to the abbot and to the castle if he could not himself hale him to judgement.

The Raven In The Foregate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986

They were across the bridge and moving along the approach to the Foregate, between the Gaye on the left hand and the mill and mill-pool on the right, and so to the gatehouse of the abbey.

An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

If your paladin is as set on his pilgrimage as you say, if he's willing to venture whatever comes, then I'll bring my boat into the mill-pool tomorrow after Prime.

An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

If your paladin is as set on his pilgrimage as you say, if he's willing to venture whatever comes, then I'll bring my boat into the mill-pool tomorrow after Prime.

An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

They were across the bridge and moving along the approach to the Foregate, between the Gaye on the left hand and the mill and mill-pool on the right, and so to the gatehouse of the abbey.

An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

The path down to the water skirted the growing pease, keeping close to a hedge of thick bushes above the mill-pool.

The Pilgrim of Hate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1984

When the women had turned aside to their own doors, and they two alone were stealing silently between mill-pool on one hand and the copses above the Gaye on the other, and the stone rise of the bridge showed very faintly before them, Rannilt halted abruptly, drawing him round face to face with her in the edge of the trees.

The Sanctuary Sparrow Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1983

The superintendent made no comment on the extraneous tragedy so briefly recorded but his face grew very hard, and Mr. Campion, who was sitting quietly in his corner, was reminded that Oates was a countryman who had come from just such another village with just such another mill-pool, and more than probably with just such another porter.

The Fashion in Shrouds Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1931