单词 | milldam |
例句 | In the spring the shad ran upriver to breed, but they couldn’t get past the milldam, and the pool was just swarming with them. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “To say channel morphology is dependent on historic milldams is incorrect,” says Martin Doyle, a river ecologist at Duke University. A secret hidden in centuries-old mud reveals a new way to save polluted rivers 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Researchers from Penn State University discovered the fossil leaves while investigating the lingering effects of milldams. What America's Forests Looked Like Before Europeans Arrived 2013-11-13T23:45:00.387Z In the American States, very numerous watermills have been erected within a few years, and there is scarcely a stream in the settled portion of the country which has not several milldams upon it. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z Rather than tear down the whole milldam and radically change the surrounding ecosystem, the researchers recommend river restorers only remove part of it. The Ecosystem Engineer: Research Looks At The Beavers' Role In River Restoration 2011-01-05T15:23:00Z A busybody, self-interested, he meddled with everything that could bring water to his milldam. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster Sure enough, just downstream from the towering bank of finely laminated mud they found the remains of a colonial-era milldam. A secret hidden in centuries-old mud reveals a new way to save polluted rivers 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z The scientists hope that identifying similar fossil tree-leaf sites will help the massive milldam restoration projects underway throughout the Northeast. What America's Forests Looked Like Before Europeans Arrived 2013-11-13T23:45:00.387Z We lost our way twice, and after four hours of hard marching, we found ourselves opposite a milldam we crossed early that same morning; for the guides led us all astray! Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune For two hundred years the water has rippled over the sill on which once firmly set the gate to the old milldam. Old Plymouth Trails Night found the army encamped on the east bank of Pine creek, above the site of the old Brier milldam. The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 Loud roars the storm, The milldams tear; I cannot perish, O malheur! Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Whether it was throwing quoits in the middle of the road, playing foot-ball in the river pastures below the mill, swimming in the milldam or walking the logs on the pond, he was the leader. Duncan Polite The Watchman of Glenoro What would be said of a mill-owner who should let his milldam wash away once or twice each year, and then rebuild it instead of keeping it in constant repair? The Road and the Roadside It was found, however, that it could be drained; but at certain seasons of the year surface water would accumulate from the overflow of a milldam. Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings There has been no rain since the first of May, and how the jolly old miller will laugh till the tears fill his eyes when he sees the water rise in the milldam.’ Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide A man working on a milldam kept on for an hour after nightfall on Saturday to finish it, and next day his child fell into a well and was drowned. The Chief End of Man On the river Wharfe, near Otley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, is a weir or milldam where this phenomenon is sometimes manifested in a striking manner. Essays in Natural History and Agriculture "Say, Jack, isn't that the name of the man who took the old Grimes farm up at the milldam?" he asked, though he knew positively that it was so. The Banner Boy Scouts Or, The Struggle for Leadership The 'six hundred and twenty thousand tons of water each minute' nearly ceased to flow, and dwindled away into the appearance of a mere milldam. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Near the milldam was the millpond, deep and full of fish; a little mill with a thatched roof was working away with a wrathful sound, and frogs croaked furiously. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories There they paddle their birch canoes among the coasting schooners, and build their wigwam beside some roaring milldam, and drive a little trade in basket-work where their fathers hunted deer. The Seven Vagabonds (From "Twice Told Tales") Winthrop gives the case of a man who, having hired help to repair a milldam, worked an hour on Saturday after sunset to finish what he had intended for the day's labor. Sabbath in Puritan New England The trees were dark with leaves and brooded close above them; old water-fences and milldams cast inky shadows on the still, shallow ponds clasped in wooded hills. The Desert and the Sown My dear boy," said Edward, "after getting a certain amount of knowledge, other knowledge comes very fast; it gathers like a snowball—or perhaps it would be better to illustrate the fact by a milldam. Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life It has seemed to me that the same rush of water in Little Bill Creek that runs the dynamos at Royal is in evidence—to a lesser extent—at the old milldam. Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation Almost due west of that was the milldam, which was about the only place they could hope to be able to cross Plum Run—and Watertown lay on the other side. Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island Here are others, still brighter and larger, with yellow disks, and sky-blue flowers; these grow by still waters, near milldams and swampy places. Lady Mary and her Nurse "We have never taken the boat up the river beyond the village, on account of the milldam." Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3) You know, when the water is low in the milldam, the miller cannot drive his wheel; but the moment the water comes up to a certain level it has force to work the mill. Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life How when Widow Norton’s only son could not be found, he dived into the deep hole of the intake of the milldam of the great Carstone mills where Wingate the farrier had been drowned. The Man But at that they had made good time through their chase and within a very few minutes the last bend of the river showed them the milldam. Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island There cam a knight to be their wooer, By the bonnie milldams o' Binnorie. Bulchevy's Book of English Verse "Can't you extend your map, Frank, so as to put in the river to the village, showing the milldam and the island?" suggested Uncle Robert. Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3) |
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