mill-lade

Soon I was round the shoulder of the rise, in the little glen from which the mill-lade flowed.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

A small mill-lade ran in a wooden aqueduct at the other side of the yard, and into this I fell.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

My tongue was like a stick, and to make it worse I could hear the cool drip of water from the mill-lade.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

A small mill-lade ran in a wooden aqueduct at the other side of the yard, and into this I fell.

The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 1907

Soon I was round the shoulder of the rise, in the little glen from which the mill-lade flowed.

The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 1907

I could hear the cool drip of water from the mill-lade.

The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 1907

This I found easy enough, where it grew on a steep brae, with the mill-lade flowing swift and deep along the foot of it; and here I began to walk slower and to reflect more reasonably on my employment.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

Here was my advantage, here was just such a conjuncture as Stewart had counselled me to profit by, and I ran by the side of the mill-lade, fetched about beyond the east corner of the wood, threaded through the midst of it, and returned to the west selvage, whence I could again command the path, and yet be myself unseen.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

It was Alan's tryst to be every night between twelve and two "in a bit scrog of wood by east of Silvermills and by south the south mill-lade."

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

He lay on the bed, his head ghastly in its white bandages rocking from side to side and a stream of curses, thin and small of voice as a hill-brook in drought, but continuous as a mill-lade, issuing from between his clenched teeth.

The Dew of Their Youth 1887