| 单词 | millpond |
| 例句 | Only the plan is to run out into the smelly millpond and drown us both. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z She has enough food in the root cellar to last a long time, and if she doesn’t want to eat smoked fish or venison, she can catch a fresh fish in the millpond. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She flew above Sam, who had waded into the millpond to save Mole. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Sam was dipping a water bucket into the millpond when he saw Chup leave the nest box. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z On the way home he asked Bando for help, and before the sun set, they had put Oksi, unhooded, into the nest box and erected pole, box, and her in the clearing by the millpond. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Moving quietly, she swam across the millpond to the sluice and climbed up the wall. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z At the edge of the millpond she stopped and looked behind her. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z A man of gain and sin: They found him in the millpond With his skull bashed in. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z The address on the ID card is this place on the other side of the millpond. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z There was no wind, and the sea looked flat and glassy as a millpond. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She saw trees, boulders, the millpond, and, high above them, a bright glimpse of blue sky. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The sun is just coming over the millpond and there's this spooky mist on the water. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z I climb to the millpond, close the gate, and watch the water slow down, trickle, and then stop. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Wild and rough; rust brown and green; flat as a millpond; metal grey; mother of pearl; silver. ‘I launch naked into the unknown’: writers on the joy of wild swimming 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Something lands with an almighty splash in this calm millpond of melancholy regret. Poetry ? review 2011-07-28T21:25:01Z Tim Malyon celebrated the new year with his family on a boat on Sydney harbour: "The weather was perfect - the harbour was like a millpond around midnight." New year celebrations: Your pictures 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z He claims that "like other palaces", Lambeth attracts "courtiers" whose main priority is to maintain a "still millpond" with "a minimum of activity". Archbishop faces 'impossible job' 2013-02-04T04:41:20Z Simon Jordan's book, Be Careful What You Wish For, is a hand grenade into the millpond of any such wishful thinking. Football keeps getting richer, but it's the fans who pay for it 2012-06-16T23:03:25Z They are very numerous in most millponds, pools, back-waters, sluggish waters and ponds. Old Flies in New Dresses How to Dress Dry Flies with the Wings in the Natural Position and Some New Wet Flies 2012-04-02T02:00:23.697Z The beautiful weather still continued and the sea was as “calm as a millpond.” Bert Wilson, Wireless Operator 2012-03-27T02:00:19.467Z A great fisherman, he is; he'll fish for hours in the millpond, and I wonder he has the patience for it, for there's not much to be caught there since the grinding stopped. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z Julie and Joan had been sent to hunt for a fresh spring of water, and in passing the canoes where they had been left, Joan said, “The lake’s like a millpond.” Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z When I had left it to go below to breakfast, 191 the water had been as smooth as a millpond; now it ran a comparatively high sea, and its anger was momentarily increasing. The Beautiful White Devil 2011-11-11T03:00:24.760Z It was a perfect day for testing the boat, as the water was as smooth as a millpond, and the tide being full there was little difficulty in launching the repaired craft. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z It was a warm and beautiful day and the water was as calm as a millpond. The Girls of Central High Rivals for All Honors 2011-08-11T02:00:17.153Z He and Mars Henry played marbles together, fished or swam the millpond, searched the woods for chinquapins or hickory nuts. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z Near millponds is a favourite place with these birds. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Before the light trade-wind we were hardly able to make any headway through the investing vegetation, which overlaid the waves so heavily that the surface was smooth as a millpond. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Yes, yes— Madam Helset.—on the other side of the millpond. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z They darted around the slower flotilla of merchant steamships like “lucky-bugs” on a millpond. Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross Doing Her Best For Uncle Sam 2011-06-14T02:00:23.757Z The girl, possibly a young cousin of William Shakespeare, had been picking flowers when she fell into a millpond near Stratford upon Avon. Real-life tragedy 2011-06-08T01:00:24Z The latter, as far as we could judge by the water alongside, was as smooth and pulseless as a millpond. A Crime of the Under-seas 2011-05-17T02:00:16.540Z Lake Huron, of course, was entirely different from the millpond at home; but they knew how to row and paddle, and there were plenty of boats and canoes to use here, for the asking. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z The Swan River just beyond the Waca can often be a millpond with dinghies helplessly becalmed but they buzz along as soon as the doctor calls. Vic Marks on Australia's selection woes 2010-12-12T00:09:00Z For anyone slightly confused by that clumsy attempt at sarcasm, the Daily Telegraph has chucked a rock into the millpond this morning. County cricket - live! 2010-05-26T09:48:00Z The sea was like a millpond all the way, and they were sighted by no one likely to interfere or ask questions. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life The lake was as smooth as a millpond, and surrounded with long stretches of marshland and heavy thickets of tropical growth. The Campaign of the Jungle or, Under Lawton through Luzon The lake was as calm as a millpond; but Lake Huron is notoriously treacherous. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z The stretch of water lying to the west is the millpond, and is unlike any other pond I know. Highways and Byways in Surrey If you have ever tried to run while wading in a millpond or at the stream adjacent to the "old swimming hole," you realize what I mean. The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders The salt marsh, bounding a part of the millpond where their boat lay, was trampled into a complete quagmire. The Printer Boy. Or How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth. Some of the spray was scattered over him, though otherwise the river was as calm as a millpond. The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters East of the beach was a Cove that extended about a quarter of a mile into the bushes, forming a kind of basin at its head, which was as still as a millpond. Narrative of the shipwreck of the brig Betsey, of Wiscasset, Maine, and murder of five of her crew, by pirates, on the coast of Cuba, Dec. 1824. No frost ever sets ice on the millpond, it is said, and in hard winters wildfowl flock to it. Highways and Byways in Surrey Nancy took her chum to the millpond, where the water-lilies grew, and showed her where Bob Endress had come so near being drowned in the millrace. A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall To-day I expect it will be as smooth as a millpond. The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life There are all sorts of mills: some go by water, undershot or overshot; but if the millpond is dry, or the stream runs low, they come to a standstill. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading The thunder and lightning had almost entirely ceased, and the wind had fallen, leaving the creek as smooth as a millpond; but the rain still poured with a steady persistency that threatened a long continuance. Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters It would be easy to believe that the rushing springs of the millpond were in reality the Mole reappearing from her dive below ground at Mickleham, higher up the stream. Highways and Byways in Surrey She had scarcely recovered from 28the shock of Nancy’s adventure at the millpond; but after all there was a spark of human feeling deep down in the teacher’s heart. A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall "It's a good three miles to the nearest millpond," I said. We Three Why the water is as calm as a millpond. The Three Lieutenants Would she be hurled against a broken boulder, wedged helplessly beneath the débris, or rushed forward into the swirl of the millpond itself? A College Girl A grotesque group, chiefly negroes, old and young, may be seen gathered about the door of a quaint old personage near the millpond. An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith Nancy decided that her first good opinion of him, formed when she had seen him wading in the millpond after water-lilies, was correct. A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall His millpond was close to the spring-head, and the spring-water ate into the wood and caused it to decay much quicker. Round About a Great Estate One was shot by a blacksmith on a millpond with a long-range Sharp's rifle, and many of the neighbors went far to see it. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth The jetty or the millpond—that was the alternative, and it was one to put power into the arm and give staying power to the laboured breath! A College Girl Lower down on the slope is a millpond, P, the tail race from which falls into the sea. Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. Once Phoebe fell into a millpond from a springboard ... with all her clothes on ... we were seeing who dared "teeter" nearest the end.... Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative At the upper end of the coombe the spring issued, and at the lower was the millpond. Round About a Great Estate "No, with the staghounds; three beautiful runs; took him once in a millpond, once in a barn, and once in a brickfield—altogether the finest day's sport I ever saw in my life." Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities Nice thing it would have been for us to discover your drowned body in the millpond, and have had to tell your aunt!” A College Girl "And the session still as calm as a millpond?" The Ramrodders A Novel The picnic ground was above the falls and on the verge of the big millpond. Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box Some spiritual mariners never venture out of a calm millpond, and rejoice in very quiet proceedings; they do not look like rejoicing at all. From Death into Life or, twenty years of my minstry My wife and I went down to the millpond and drew out the net which Stepan had thrown in over night in our presence. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories An ox was roasted whole on the Avon at Evesham, and, when the frost broke up, the ice on our millpond was 17 inches thick. Grain and Chaff from an English Manor I got a thrashing for taking you and Joe to the millpond, and helping you to get good and wet. Red Saunders His Adventures West & East Not far from the home of the Franklins there was a millpond, where the boys often went to swim. Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans Yet the sea looked calm as a millpond—just the morning for a bath. The Open Air The still, blue millpond was alluring with its promise of coolness and peace. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories "I thought you said the sea was like a millpond." Three Men and a Maid Both boats settled dangerously near to the point of shipping water, so it was fortunate that the river was as calm as a millpond. Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island They had been hauled there only a few days before, and were to be used in building a new house near the millpond. Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans The frogs in the millpond had had a great battle, or some terrible catastrophe had overtaken them. Once Upon a Time in Connecticut Near the milldam was the millpond, deep and full of fish; a little mill with a thatched roof was working away with a wrathful sound, and frogs croaked furiously. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories It is nearly a quarter of an hour, and not a scratch yet, though they hit each other with every tierce, flat as a soup-plate falling upon a millpond. Greifenstein I saw her passing down the meadows half an hour ago with a strange young man; and her brother stopped behind near the millpond. Philistia Young Benjamin Franklin tried hard to explain that a wharf on the edge of the millpond was a public necessity. Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans The millpond was dark with shadows now, and she went down the stairs and out to the gate just as Dave again pulled up in front of it. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine As there was not enough work in the lodge for one, Tcheprakov did nothing, but simply dozed, or went with his gun to shoot ducks on the millpond. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories She mired down in the swamp, back of the millpond, and before we could find her she was dead. St. Elmo The mill was finished and ready for business, and the millpond, instead of a mud flat, was a pretty sheet of water, fringed with palms and other beautiful trees. Wakulla: a story of adventure in Florida Immediately before her was the large, smooth millpond, over-full, and intruding into the hedge and into the road. The Trumpet-Major He had cast all his flannels into the little millpond, and then waded himself through the dark cold water to the new clothes on the other side. The Longest Journey And now all this—the millpond and the mill and the snug-looking banks— belonged to the engineer! The Chorus Girl and Other Stories Lake Bennett, thirty miles in length, was like a millpond; but, half way across, a gale from the south smote them and turned the water white. Lost Face It was beautiful weather, and the sea as smooth as a millpond. A Set of Six On a sea, calm like a millpond, a heavy smooth ripple undulated and streamed away from her bows, for the powerful Neptun was towing at great speed, as if for a wager. 'Twixt Land and Sea |
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