Nor was either greenhouse or garden or pond neglected.
On the first Sunday afternoon in November he rowed on the pond in his boat, but felt ill as he returned to the house, and on the next Wednesday, the 8th, he passed quietly away.
Among the pleasure drives in the neighbourhood of Boston, the drive around Spot Pond is perhaps foremost in beauty.
A stream, or a pondwith a stream running through it, would be dammed, and the fall of water at the lower end would then work two pairs of bellows for the blast for the furnace and a wheel which raised and let fall a hammer.
To walk from Frensham Little Pond over Tilford Common to Tilford is to traverse some of the wildest and freshest commonland in Surrey.
But when a passer-by on a spring morning sees a pound fish fall back into the water with a meditative flop, he may pay the pond the compliment of wishing himself elsewhere.
It has some pretty modern cottages by a pond and shading elm-trees; a post-office also, with the smallest possible aperture for introducing letters to the notice of the post-mistress within.
The village is not much more than a farmhouse and a noble barn; perhaps Wisley is better known for its pond and its garden.
Chertsey's main street is wide and bright, and at its side lies a pond through which the carthorses go plunging.
A right of way runs from the road near Cranleigh round the south of the pond to Baynards beyond, and the pond lies near the right of way, a grass-edged road alive with rabbits.
Below, to the south-west, Vachery Pond lay a gold mirror; Chanctonbury Ring faithfully marked the south as the rain drew past, and I left Leith Hill with the rain cloud riding down wind like night over the weald of Kent.
Who first named the Shirebourne pond the Silent Pool?
Cobbett describes it as "a beautiful village, chiefly of one street, with a fine large green before it, and with a pond in the green.
The stretch of water lying to the west is the millpond, and is unlike any other pond I know.
It was an accident which first showed me the pond as it ought to be seen, and as few see it.
On the other side of Vachery Pond is Baynards, one of the historic Surrey houses, and a fine relic of Tudor days.
When at last I stood on the edge of the water, the reason was clear enough; the pond is surrounded by banks covered with trees.
The number of lodges is always thus very small in proportion to the size of the dam, the greatest number of lodges that he has observed upon one pond being five.
This natural bank extended up the stream, and nearly parallel with it, for 1,000 feet, where the ground again subsided, and allowed the water in the upper part of the pond to flow out and around into the channel of the stream below the dam.
A hare intending to mislead its pursuers has been seen spontaneously to quit its seat and to proceed to a pond at the distance of nearly a mile, and having washed itself, push off again through a quantity of rushes.
But of course the supply of trees thus growing conveniently near a beaver-pond is too limited to last long.
Thus, for instance, Warden gives a case in which a pond containing a number of frogs dried up, and the frogs thereupon made straight for the nearest water, although this was at a distance of eight kilometres.
In such cases it has been observed by Mr. Morgan that, at a short distance beneath the main dam, another and lower dam is thrown across the stream, with the result of forming a shallow pond between the two.
Where the pond fails to accomplish this fully, and also where the banks are defined and mark the limits of the pond, the deficiency is supplied by the canals in question.
Therefore the level of the pond must in all cases be higher than that of the lodge- and burrow-entrances, and it is usually maintained two or three feet above them.
This pond is-- Of no apparent use for beaver occupation, but yet subserving the important purpose of setting back water to the depth of twelve or fifteen inches; .
At night it keeps up a continued and very loud croaking, so that a pond in which a number of these Frogs are kept is quite destructive of sleep to any one who is not used to the noise.
Like the land Tortoise, it is one of the hibernators, and during the winter months buries itself deeply in the earth, choosing for this purpose the soft, muddy bed or bank of the pond in which it lives.
When he was within sight of it, he stopped to take a drink and a bath in a pond near by; and who should be there, to be sure, but the old magpie!
The points mentioned with regard to the indoor aquarium apply here also, but many of the arrangements are more easily carried out in the pond than in the tank.
For many reasons the best aquarium is a pond in the garden, for here we may have greater variety of animal and vegetable life, and beautiful surroundings of plant life too.
For the garden pond the beautiful water lilies may be obtained.
Pond roach taste muddy; but before we bring our fish to table we must learn how to catch it.
Fish eat the buds and tender shoots of pond weeds.
It is not at all a pretty sight, and much more suggestive of a duck waddling out of a pond than a well-trained human being.
The pond should be about three feet deep, and the banks should slope, so that there will be a little spade work at first.
He was down at the pond washing the dog; I was with him.
At the foot of the hill the glitter of the pond became visible, and Hannibal's resistance grew so desperate that Peppino went back and picked him up, carrying him onward in his arms as though he had been a baby.
And the pond is in reality a reservoir for the water of a spring above.
They rested upon a pond of dirty water several feet deep lying there.
With that they continued on their way, leaving the victim to scramble out of the pond and make his way home, beaten and crestfallen.
Do not issue like a river, Nor as pondextend thy billows, Trickling forth from out the marshes, Nor to leak like boats when damaged.
The roots of the marsh arum (Calla palustris), not a British plant, though naturalized in a pond at Ripley.
Eddie, being small and woods-broken could work his way through pretty well, but after a few discouragements I decided to wade down the brook and through the shallow pond above the dam.
The pond that had seemed small and shallow by daylight was big enough and deep enough now.
Robert Stamford and many of his congregation had imitated Mr. Pond in this respect, for his servants worked more faithfully, and were more trustworthy than any others in the vicinity.
It was held an hour, and Mr. Pond himself, or one of his sons, was always there.
Mr. Pond was there himself on the next Sunday, and though he spoke very kindly to the boy, yet he told him very decidedly that he must not come there without a written permission from his master.
Mr. Pond was very kind to all his servants, as he called them, and a more cheerful group could not be found in the state.
Now, if you belonged to Massa Pond 'twould be different.
That day young master Pond was in the Sunday school, and he spoke very kindly to Lewis, commending his zeal, and asking him to come again.
The morn when first it thunders in March, The eel in the pond gives a leap, they say.
And yonder, at foot of the fronting ridge That takes the turn to a range beyond, Is the chapel reached by the one-arched bridge, Where the water is stopped in a stagnant pond Danced over by the midge.
And all day long a bird sings there, And a stray sheep drinks at the pond at times; The place is silent and aware; It has had its scenes, its joys and crimes, But that is its own affair.
The shanty was ere long lined in a comely manner with the planks which had journeyed up the pond in the ice-boat, affording many an evening's work for Arthur.
The sight of the frozenpond suggested to Mr. Holt a plan for easily obtaining them.
Cedar Pondwas stricken dead--a solid gleaming sheet of stone from shore to shore.
Then they coasted awhile, until another wide curve of the pond spread in front.
Without the gate fiue pases is the abouesayd pond Zun Zun, which is that blessed pond that the angell of the Lord shewed vnto Agar whiles she went seeking water for her sonne Ismael to drinke.
In Poland a puppet made of hemp or straw is flung into a pond or swamp with the words, 'The Devil take thee!
It is understood that at least two prominent members of the present city government (Supervisor Pondand Auditor Strother) are distinctly opposed to the library, and to free public libraries, on principle.
The surrounding hills have been improved with great taste, and the pond and its surroundings constitute one of the prettiest features of the park.
The ground was damp and marshy, the old Collect Pond having originally covered the site, and the streets were filthy beyond description.
Now the only accessible water when they were out on the down was in the mist-pond about a quarter of a mile from his "liberty," as he called that portion of the down on which he was entitled to pasture his sheep.
He took his gun out to the pond behind the stable, and there, sure enough, was a white duck floating about in the sunshine.
She changed herself into a white duck and floated on thepond that was behind the castle stable.
Do you take a gun and go out to the pond behind the castle stable.
Other names pointing to the existence of pastimes now extinct are found elsewhere in London, as in Balls Pond Road, Islington, where in the 17th century was a proprietary pond for the sport of duck-hunting.
Although, as a rule, only one beaver works on a tree in cutting it down, they all pitch in and help in getting the sections home; dragging them across the ground and into the pond or into one of their wonderful canals.
Really, it's a perfect fairy-land, an old pond is!
Another purpose of the canals is to fill ponds where water is getting low; or to make a pond where there isn't any at all, as in a dry ravine.
And in winter-time, when he goes out to the wood-pile to get something to eat, the water must be deep enough so that the pond doesn't freeze solid to the bottom.
About the pond or lake behind the beach, a few wild-ducks were seen; and some shags used to perch upon the high leafless trees near the shore.
Not far from them was a pretty large pond of fresh water, tolerably good; but there was not any appearance of a stream.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pond" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cistern; dam; dike; fishpond; lagoon; plash; pond; pool; puddle; reservoir; sump; tank; well