12 Metaphors for ponds

III Part of the garden; to the rear, a pond, on the shore of which is a boat.

This pond is twenty feet in length, twenty in breadth, and the water thereof is five feet deep.

A pond of four hundred acres being too great a luxury for the region, the man was overruled, and the labour commenced.

The boys of Glaston were mainly of a mind that the pond at the Old House was of all places the most likely to attract a suicide, for with the fascination of its horrors they were themselves acquainted.

The pond was one great level field of dazzling white.

At the far side of the gully the pond became a brook again and flowed on in a narrow channel the same as before.

The pond where skating once I fell Upon the ice so hard I lost my senses for a spell, And hence became a bard Is dry land now where grain or grass Is growing year by year; I see the spot, as oft I pass, No ice nor pond is there.

Now, the pond is the Indian country, the fishes are the Indians, the false treaties and promises of the white men are the lumps of mud," and, turning to the missionaries, he said: "I hope you have come to clear up the water."

A considerable portion of the northern prong of the fork has this latter character, and Oyster Pond is a sort of garden compared with much of the sterility that prevails around it.

The pond was my well ready dug.

"Mr. Pond isn't a rich man, and he didn't feel that he could afford to yield up a million dollars' worth of property that had been thrown at him in that way.

If my patience fails, that pond of ours isn't far off! LEONÍD.

12 Metaphors for  ponds