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- noun archaic Plural form of
millrace .
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Examples
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The mill wheels and millraces were recent additions to buildings that had been standing beside this river since before the Cataclysm.
The Eagle And The Nightingale Lackey, Mercedes 1995
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He did not know that the fairies were close to him always, shutting the sailors 'eyes lest they should see him, and turning him aside from millraces, and sewer mouths, and all foul and dangerous things.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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He did not know that the fairies were close to him always, shutting the sailors 'eyes lest they should see him, and turning him aside from millraces, and sewer-mouths, and all foul and dangerous things.
The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby Charles Kingsley 1847
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He did not know that the fairies were close to him always, shutting the sailors 'eyes lest they should see him, and turning him aside from millraces, and sewer-mouths, and all foul and dangerous things.
The Water-Babies Charles Kingsley 1847
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There were rock-lined cellar holes of dwellings collapsed on themselves; tumbledown stone walls marking boundaries and faint two-tracks to nowhere; granite blocks of millraces that once dammed a silvery ribbon of creek.
unknown title 2009
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There were rock-lined cellar holes of dwellings collapsed on themselves; tumbledown stone walls marking boundaries and faint two-tracks to nowhere; granite blocks of millraces that once dammed a silvery ribbon of creek.
unknown title 2009
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There were rock-lined cellar holes of dwellings collapsed on themselves; tumbledown stone walls marking boundaries and faint two-tracks to nowhere; granite blocks of millraces that once dammed a silvery ribbon of creek.
unknown title 2009
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There were rock-lined cellar holes of dwellings collapsed on themselves; tumbledown stone walls marking boundaries and faint two-tracks to nowhere; granite blocks of millraces that once dammed a silvery ribbon of creek.
unknown title 2009
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He did not know that the fairies were close to him always, shutting the sailors’ eyes lest they should see him, and turning him aside from millraces, and sewer-mouths, and all foul and dangerous things.
The Water Babies 2007
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