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Updated: June 12, 2025
"If this happens again, you'll go into the mill-race to sing to the fishes." The next night the cat was still on the alert, and the following morning the Miller tied a stone round her neck, and threw her into the water. "Oh, spare the poor thing, there's a good soul," said a bystander. "I won't," said the Miller. "I told her what would happen."
The mail had brought newspapers from New Orleans and Saint Louis, giving detailed accounts of the digging of Sutter's mill-race by the disbanded soldiers of the "Mormon Battalion;" of the crevasse caused by the water, which had laid open the wonderful auriferous deposits; and describing also the half frantic excitement which the news had produced these populous cities.
The tides sweep through Carquinez Straits as in a mill-race, and the full ebb was on when I stumbled overboard. There was nobody on the wharf, nobody on the sloop. I was borne away by the current. I was not startled. I thought the misadventure delightful. I was a good swimmer, and in my inflamed condition the contact of the water with my skin soothed me like cool linen.
By swinging into a current, that ran a mill-race, they were carried out to eighteen fathoms of water, where they anchored till daybreak. They called this place Foggy Island. To-day it is known as Ukamok. Peter and St.
He knew that if it had not been for their personal friendship for himself the married men among his boatmen would have backed out. There was excitement and tension in the air. The wide, yellow river was running like a mill-race, bending the willows, lapping hungrily at the crumbling shore.
But it is nearer in shore that the danger is worst; for the tide, here running like a mill-race, makes a long belt of broken water a Roost we call it at the tail of the land.
Bride river still flowed her old way to her work and came, by goldilocks and grasses, by reedmace and angelica, to the mill-race and water-wheel.
The water was smooth and the drift had settled to a slow, ponderous, sliding movement. Lane pulled powerfully against the current and toward the right-hand shore. That was closest. Besides, he remembered a long sluice at the end of the dam where the water ran down as on a mill-race. If he could row into that!
Nearer and nearer we sped, dodging the snags, until the water boiled around us, and suddenly the boat shot forward as in a mill-race, and we clutched the cabin's roof. A triumphant gleam was in Xavier's eyes, for he had hit the channel squarely.
A skim of ice had formed on the margins of the river. Through the pitchy darkness fell a sleet of rain and snow that washed out the footsteps of the fugitives. The current of mid-river ran a noisy mill-race of ice and log drift; and the voyageurs could not see one boat length ahead. To men living in savagery come temptations that can neither be measured nor judged by civilization.
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