They are terrestrial, never visiting ponds or streams.
Another migratory fish was found by Bose very numerous in the fresh waters of Carolina and in ponds liable to become dry in summer.
The peril of this position was the forest of Soignies, at that time contiguous to the battle-field and intersected by the ponds of Groenendæl and Boitsford.
In fact, when he had passed the ponds and cut across the wide turfed glade which covers the old water-way of the Abbey de Chelles, he noticed under a shrub a hat, on which he built many conjectures.
There are holes in the earth with bubbling mud at the bottom, cones from the tops of which streams of muddy water issue, and ponds of mud, in some cases as thick as molasses, in others thin and watery.
Occasionally we get whiffs of sulphur, while about the borders of some of the ponds pretty crystals of this mineral can be found.
The water of the present lake is so salt that in every four quarts there is one quart of salt, and the preparation of this commodity by a process of evaporating the water in ponds has become an important industry.
Of general distribution thruout the State but found chiefly in more open situations in vicinity of streams and ponds and in cultivated sections.
It is close to the surface of ponds and lakes that the earliest insects are to be found in spring, and it is here that the bird may maintain the spotlessness of its plumage by frequent dips.
Such nuisances as stagnant ponds and mud-filled ditches are more easily dealt with, because they are public, and interference with them would not touch upon any man's liberty of action.
Nothing is more valuable upon a country road thanponds of this character, into which a jaded horse can walk over his fetlock, and cool his feet at the same time that he refreshes his thirst.
Stagnant ponds are of no use to anyone--even horses will not drink at them.
But some of these ponds could be utilized for the benefit of passing horses and cattle.
Now, it would be a very bad thing for us, if some day all the water in our wells and springs and ponds should dry up, and all the grass on our pleasant pastures and hills should wither away.
Most of these ponds are more or less brackish, some sulphurous, and others perfectly salt.
After heavy rains such aqueous deposits are more numerous, and their waters sweeter; but rain seems to fall by accident over this desolate region, and after long spells of drought the greater number of theseponds disappear altogether.
Yonder streak is green forest; from thence onwards the whole country abounds with water, it is always raining, the pools are full, and here and there are ponds covered with lotuses.
The Prior received Inglesant with deference, and took him over the house and gardens, pointing out the well-stocked fish-ponds and other conveniences, with no apparent wish of concealing anything.
Fish-ponds were purposely constructed to preserve it.
Buckets of this size, with bails, are especially used for water, particularly for bringing it from the ponds and streams.
Fresh-water ponds begin to freeze about the last week in September, and by the first or second week in October everything is sufficiently frozen for the natives to travel with sledges to fish through the ice of the inland rivers.
Melting begins with the thawing of the snow, but the larger ponds are not clear of ice till the middle or end of July.
The landscape is strikingly like the rolling drift hills of Cape Cod, and this resemblance is increased by the absence of trees and the occurrence of ponds in all the depressions.
These water snails of our ponds and ditches are exclusively vegetable feeders, and must come to the surface at frequent intervals to breathe, letting out a bubble of vitiated air, and taking in a fresh supply.
First among these pulmonates are those common in pondsand still streams the world over, of the family Limneidae, called limneids or pond snails.
All breed in water, resorting to pondsand pools in the early spring.
It lives in ponds and pools of stagnant water, and is so small that a magnifying glass is necessary to study it, especially in the case of the green one of our two common American species--the other is brown.
They are little, thin, leaf-shaped creatures that creep on the bottom of ponds and even of deep lakes, or swim in the sea, and feed upon algae and minute animals.
It is often kept as an ornament, in smallponds or glass globes.
This pretty valley of Chilworth has a run of water which comes out of the high hills, and which, occasionally, spreads into a pond; so that there is in fact a series of ponds connected by this run of water.
Soon after the rising of the stream, it forms itself into some capital ponds at Alresford.
You can see the marks of old fish-ponds in thousands and thousands of places.
The first are formed on small islands which may happen to occur in the ponds made by the beaver-dams.
Griffiths says that at the siege of Bhurtpore, in 1805, the British army had been a long time before the city, and, owing to the hot dry winds, the ponds and tanks had dried up.
When they leave their normal mode of life in the banks of the rivers, and undertake to live in dependence upon artificial ponds of their own formation, they are compelled to prevent the consequences of their acts at the peril of their lives.
And he answered, "I should like to dwell in the Black Cloud, in which are the ponds and streams and lakes and springs of water, for I always dwelt near these places when I was young.
At last Turtle arrived at the meeting of the Great Council, as was his custom, coming in his Black Cloud, in which were the ponds and lakes and streams and springs of water.
In several of our large cities, ponds are set apart for the especial purpose of sailing toy vessels.
You are alone--but so close to the homeponds that you stop to tighten the sinews with hands, teeth, and a piece of driftwood.
When we came to the Dew-ponds all our people were there.
There are a few ponds in some of the valleys, but they are small, and are all artificial.
One of theseponds is at Estes’ place near Blowing Rock.
They live in fresh-water ponds and oftentimes come ashore and sun themselves; but retire to the water if assaulted.
Salt-ponds at Mayo, kern only in the dry season, others in the West Indies in the wet only.
The lakes and ponds were gay with yellow water-lilies, and the air was musical with the sweet cries of wildfowl; while the noon-tide sun bathed the whole in a golden glory.
At the distant head of the bay the formation or dip of the land clearly indicated the mouth of a large river, while small streams and ponds were seen gleaming amid the foliage nearer at hand.
This is said to be an immature form, which returns to theponds and matures the next season; but whether it is the male or the female that assumes this bright hue, or both, I do not know.
How curious that men should ever have got the notion that this airy, fairy creature, this playmate of the sunbeams, spends the winter hibernating in the mud of ponds and marshes, the bedfellow of newts and frogs and turtles!
At first he travelled nearly four miles east, to clear the marshes, when he came on the chain of ponds to which we had removed.
We kept the left bank of the river as we proceeded down it, and passed two or three larger ponds about a mile below where we had slept, but there they ceased.
They undoubtedly empty themselves into the marshes, and are a continuation of that chain of ponds on which I left the party in Mr. Hume's charge.
About these ponds stole many a secret path, veined with clumsy roots, shadowed with the thick bush of many a clustering parasite, and echoing sometimes beneath from the hollowed shelter of coot or water-rat.
And I made meponds of water, to water therewith the wood of the young trees, 2:7.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ponds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
