millrace

• The water, speeding like a millrace, was a lather of foam; and up through this foam there shot the crests of great rocks, as though huge monsters of some kind were at play, whipping the torrent into greater fury, and bellowing forth thunderous voices. —  The Hunted Woman
• I was a business man before I came here and I may be able to help you fellows get what you want Getting up, Jake took Sam's arm and they walked down the ravine, Jake explaining the situation in the town The game," he said, "is to make the taxpayers pay for a millrace to be built for the development of the water power in the river and then, by a trick, to turn it over to a private company. —  Windy McPherson's Son
• "Build your millrace, but look out for a trick of the politicians. —  Windy McPherson's Son
• The Gullet, or new eastern entrance, was a whirlpool at high tide, deep, broad, and swift as a millrace. —  PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
• He had only time to blink once or twice and catch a lungful of air when he shot into a current that was running like a millrace between the butts of two fallen trees, and for another twenty feet the sharpest eyes could not have seen hair or hide of him. —  Baree, Son of Kazan

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