"Milldam" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... how he will laugh, When he sees the milldam rise! The jolly old miller, how he will laugh, Till the tears fill both ...
— Journeys Through Bookland V2 • Charles H. Sylvester
... rolled water down the hill and said, 'this will turn the poor old miller's wheel, and a busy man he will be by morning. 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.' And some seized the winds and put horns to their mouths and blew sharply. 'And there!' said they shrilly, 'the merry winds go from every horn to clear the damp mildew from the blind old widow's corn. Though she has been blind for ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 - The Guide • Charles Herbert Sylvester
... argument. A steamboat had arrived at New Salem from Cincinnati, and Lincoln was hired as an assistant in piloting the vessel through the uncertain channel of the Sangamon river to the Illinois river. The way was obstructed by a milldam. Lincoln insisted to the owners of the dam that under the Federal Constitution and laws no one had a right to dam up or obstruct a navigable stream and as he had already proved that the Sangamon ...
— Lincoln's Yarns and Stories • Alexander K. McClure |
