I scrambled to the top of the rock, and sprang across the stream, which ran below me like a flooded millrace.
"The Flight of the Shadow"
George MacDonald
How will Barney Doran's millrace agree with your motor boats?
"John Bull's Other Island"
George Bernard Shaw
The high wooded bank seemed miles away, and the river ran like a millrace.
"Colorado Jim"
George Goodchild