What is "ponds"

Usage examples of "ponds".

To please this woman my father gave up the fowl and thought to cultivate lirkfish in shallow ponds, which I excavated from the ground.

As for a bath, the ponds of the swamp are infested with threlkoids and wire-worms, and cannot be recommended.

I alive, far from the sights and sounds of civilization, where I can hear the voices of nature in the trees, in the brush, in the lonely ponds, in the dirt.

But plenty of people still come out from the city, even on the snowiest days, to sleigh ride or to skate on the river and the ponds, and I trust that some will come to see us.

It was smaller than the Prater in Vienna, but contained every kind of landscape from bosky wildwoods to velvet lawns, brilliant flower beds, ponds with swans, fountains and cascades, bridle paths and walkways.

Among them, on greenswards or beside reflecting ponds, were set magnificent edifices, some of which were modestly named but nowise modest in execution.

Edge was at the tober in the Upper Park, the vast courtyard of lawns and ponds sheltered from the gulf wind by the bulk of the palace and its southward-extending wings at either end.

Paris, the Bois is all lush parklands and lakes and ponds and carriage drives and pavilions and monuments.

Almost every day, a number of shells fell in the Bois de Boulogne, blowing shrubs and saplings to splinters, or throwing waterspouts up from the ponds, or exploding in a pretty burst of flower petals.

The water dripped down off the trees and bushes, and even the ponds and little brooks were wetter than usual, for the rain rained into them, and splished and splashed.

Most of these puddles were frozen to their bases, but as they descended they found a few larger ponds where some liquid water persisted beneath a thick shell of ice.

In the larger ponds Icebones could see a gleam of green: cores of ice that survived from the last winter, and would probably persist to the next.

Craters had been overwhelmed, their walls buried and their interiors flooded with ponds of hard, cold, red-black basalt.

The incoming CARM records showed clouds and ponds and trees and trilaterally symmetric fishlike birds swirling across the sky.

Matter would be thicker here, even this far in: more ponds, plant life, animals, predators, perhaps Navy craft or wandering happyfeet.