Milldam

Men with nothing better to do lounged along the walls above the Milldam.

Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

Glenesk, near Lord Dalhousie's shooting-lodge of Milldam, there is a rough granite boulder, on the upper surface of which a small human foot is scooped out with considerable accuracy, showing traces even of the toes.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

At rumor of his arrival all the Milldam sportsmen are on the alert, in gigs and on foot, two by two and three by three, with patent rifles and conical balls and spyglasses.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

True there is a trolley line through the main street -- oddly called "The Milldam," and in Walden wood I met an automobile not far from the cairn, or stone pile, which marks the site of Thoreau's cabin.

Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman 1886

You let me come for you 'most any afternoon, now, and take you out over the Milldam, and speed this mare a little.

The Rise of Silas Lapham 1884

The track was well beaten for miles away, down Beacon Street and across the Milldam to the country, and the pavements were strewn with ashes to give a foothold for pedestrians.

An American Politician 1881

"Oh, I don't know as he could say anything," said Lapham hopelessly; and neither of them said anything more till they crossed the Milldam and found themselves between the rows of city houses.

The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 1878

For this expedition he employed a lively colt which had not yet come of age, and an open buggy long past its prime, and was no more ashamed of his turnout than of the finest he had ever driven on the Milldam.

The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 1878

On the Milldam it became difficult to restrict the mare to the long, slow trot into which he let her break.

The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 1878

They said they were going to drive out to Cambridge over the Milldam, and I said I was going out there to get some of my traps together, and they could pick me up at the Art Museum if they liked.

April Hopes William Dean Howells 1878