"Parlor" game

Usage examples of pool.

And because of the aberration of the Dutch and Belgians for neutrality there had been no staff consultations by which the defenders could pool their plans and resources to the best advantage.

The third and fourth humans on the island had tried to find their privacy as far from the abo village and the tunnel pool as possible.

The three of us went first to check on the pool, and found it gratifying abrim with repulsive brown water, wide and deep enough to have submerged our truck.

Right now the only one of us tars actually working was Halle, who was chasing down a pool of vomit sicked up by Pael, the Academician, the only non-Navy personnel on the bridge.

Then I wondered whether the pool before me had been the haunt of the afanc, considered both as crocodile and beaver.

Out front on the green cement lawn a tiptoed Cupid, wings aflutter, squirted from pouty lips an eternal stream of blue-colored water into a marble pool deep in good-luck coins and casino chips.

The glass wall surrounded a huge shallow pool filled with polished agate gravel.

Lelila and Rillao reached the center of the agate pool, directly beneath the highest point of the glass webwork.

Anger and impatience trickled across her like the water in the agate pool.

The fountain erupted from the agate pool and splashed Lelila from the top of her head to the ends of her hair.

A number of other, similar beings moved leisurely in the pools, splashing the shallow water on their skins or burrowing down into the agates till only their eyes and trunk-ends showed.

There the true gods led him to the subterranean pool where eyeless, albescent fish swam around the clutch of huge eggs, as hard as the finest armor, left there countless centuries past.

A rough-clad stranger was standing with his back to Alec, looking out over the pool.

Dubious but not wanting to appear ungrateful, Alec picked up a blanket and went to the pool.

To his considerable dissurprise, Alec stared at him for a moment, then turned on his heel and stalked abruptly away to stare out over the central pool, his back rigid as a blade.