After two hours of hard work, pushing with the oars and pulling by the branches, we emerged into daylight, came out into the open stream, not a little fatigued by our efforts to find the imaginary pond at the base of the mountains.

I was aboard of the first of Uncle Sam's gun-boats, that crossed the pond to Gibraltar.

Would not that be as wise as to say that the bottom of the pond was not there before the pond mud, because the banks round the pond rose higher than the mud?

He then was about to move it to a fine stream of water in the neighbourhood, which, by being dammed up, so as to form a large pond, would afford him a convenient and inexhaustible supply of ice.

Fifty li east from the city was a garden, named Lumbinî, where the queen entered the pond and bathed.

This discovery seems to have set the local population, especially the juvenile part of it, searching all the ponds and streams of the neighbourhood" "Cannibals!" interjected Mr. Bellingham.

Opposite the cabin a trail came to the water's edge, skirting the pond, save in cold weather, when it crossed the ice.

"We were on one of the hillocks overlooking the pond, and somehowit all happened so swiftly that I cannot tell howbut Moppet must have ventured too near the edge, for the treacherous soil gave way, and down she pitched into the water before I could put out hand to stay her.

Both waded in the middle of the stream until they reached the pond, and then struck out toward the pine clump the lightning had revealed a little while before.

Freitagius extols it for an excellent wholesome meat, and puts it amongst the fishes of the best rank; and so do most of our country gentlemen, that store their ponds almost with no other fish.

Here and there was a garden consisting of a variety of flower-beds and flowering shrubs; broad concrete paths winding throughout, and a beautiful silver stream meandering hither and thither, and filling several small ponds and fountains.

As we approached these ponds, the river became broad and shallow.

After this, we walked about the walles of the Citie, where is a great, broade, and deepe ditch, vpon one side of the towne, so full of fish, as euer I saw any pond in my life, and it is reserued onely for the States of the Citie.

Here were courts, baths, porticoes, and terraces, in the villa urbana, or residence of the lord,the villa rustica for the steward and slaves,the gallinarium for hens,the apiarium for bees,the suile for swine,the villa fructuaria, including the buildings for storing corn, wine, oil, and fruits,the horius, or garden,and the park, containing the fish-pond and the vivarium.

Jacanas frequented the ponds near by; the peons, with a familiarity which to us seems sacrilegious, but to them was entirely inoffensive and matter of course, called them "the Jesus Christ birds," because they walked on the water.

Soon Mr. Zacharias and Charlotte came to the turn of the valley where the path spanned a little pond by means of a rustic bridge, and led straight to the corporal's house.

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"Den ergin I went ter de fish pond one day fishing en cotched two or three big fish wen

"Hirrus was wont to derive an income of twelve thousand sesterces from the buildings surrounding his fish ponds, all of which he spent for food for his fishes: and no wonder, for I remember that on one occasion he lent two thousand murenae to Caesar by weight (stipulating for their return in kind), so that his villa (which was not otherwise extraordinary) sold for four million sesterces on account of the stock of fish.

As for the second, his most arduous task has been, not to dig the fish-pond, but to people it.

The stream of water gives motion to a mill, belonging to Mr. Price, and feeds the mill pond, which is a fine sheet of water covering twenty-four acres.

I'll pit these twa blankets oot in the sun, in some place where the dooks frae the pond will no get dandering ower them.

This place hath a great pond caused by the inundation of Nilus, and so made that the camels and other beastes may drinke therein: whereof, namely, of Mules, Camels, and Dromedaries there are at least fortie thousand, and the persons which followe the Carouan euerie yeere are about fiftie thousand, fewe more or lesse, according to the times.

Every one of those old outlaws who haunt our New England ponds and marshes, water-soaked and soakers of something else,intimate with the pure fluid in that familiarity which breeds contempt,has yet a wholesome side when you explore his knowledge of frost and freshet, pickerel and musk-rat, and is exceedingly good company while you can keep him beyond scent of the tavern.

At length one morning came a break: Faber received a note from the gate-keeper, informing him that Miss Drake was having the pond at the foot of her garden emptied into the Lythe by means of a tunnel, the construction of which was already completed.