mill-race

The tide circled like a mill-race in and out of this bight, and made it possible to raise, lower, or set a Chinese line only at slack water.

The King of the Greeks 2010

The tides sweep through Carquinez Straits as in a mill-race, and the full ebb was on when I stumbled overboard.

Chapter 12 2010

John Marshall discovered gold in Sutter's mill-race.

CHAPTER III 2010

The space between is not, if we look at it properly, a sluggish declension; it is a mill-race.

"Lent is the sacramental expression of the brief life we live here..." 2009

The space between is not, if we look at it properly, a sluggish declension; it is a mill-race.

Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

This was the predicament of the pirates: because of the big run-out, the tide was now rushing back like a mill-race, and it was impossible for the strongest swimmer in the world to make against it the three miles to the sloops.

A Raid on the Oyster Pirates 2010

Steel paddles had been welded on to the wheels, thirty-two on each, which were mounted under the spouts of two steeply inclined twenty-foot steel tubes, the stream having been split in two and funnelled into them from the concrete mill-race ten feet above.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

So intent was I on examining this machine that I lost my sunglasses in the mill-race, where they were instantly flipped and minced in the waterwheels, as sardines are by dolphins.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Steel paddles had been welded on to the wheels, thirty-two on each, which were mounted under the spouts of two steeply inclined twenty-foot steel tubes, the stream having been split in two and funnelled into them from the concrete mill-race ten feet above.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

So intent was I on examining this machine that I lost my sunglasses in the mill-race, where they were instantly flipped and minced in the waterwheels, as sardines are by dolphins.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009