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Examples
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Wherefore, holy dame, pilgrim, or abbess, or whatever thou art, be mute with thy mummery or beware the mill-dam.
The Abbot 2008
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The scene at the mill-dam links us once more with the woods and the waters which we had lost sight of since Peer Gynt.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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The scene at the mill-dam links us once more with the woods and the waters which we had lost sight of since Peer Gynt.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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I may observe, for example, the case of an apparitor sent to Borthwick from the Primate of Saint Andrews, to cite the lord of that castle, who was opposed by an Abbot of Unreason, at whose command the officer of the spiritual court was appointed to be ducked in a mill-dam, and obliged to eat up his parchment citation.
The Abbot 2008
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But I say that this fellow the laird is a firebrand in the country; that he is stirring up all the honest fellows who should be drinking their brandy quietly, by telling them stories about their ancestors and the Forty-five; and that he is trying to turn all waters into his own mill-dam, and to set his sails to all winds.
Redgauntlet 2008
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The mill-dam too was frozen: the Hollow was very still: indoors it was already dark.
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“Remember your liberties,” rejoined Mareschal, who seemed to take a mischievous delight in precipitating the movements of the enthusiasm which he had excited, like a roguish boy, who, having lifted the sluice of a mill-dam, enjoys the clatter of the wheels which he has put in motion, without thinking of the mischief he may have occasioned.
The Black Dwarf 2004
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The water was flowing over the mill-dam where the road crosses the Saugatuck, and he expressed approval of that clear, picturesque little river, one of those charming Connecticut streams.
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Many and many a fish have I caught out of that mill-dam.
Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian
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He stood awhile, looking at the workmen, and then went to oversee the laborers at the mill-dam.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various
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