| 单词 | pond |
| 例句 | But the pond back home had lilac and forsythia behind it, with picnic tables, a small playground, and a winding bike path off to the side. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z On the other side of the canal there are ponds flanked with poplars;—on the other side of the canal there are women too. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Cole eyed the stick warily as Edwin waded out into the clear pond. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z And some years there are lots of frogs in the pond, and some years there are very few. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He waved his hand, and next to us a pool of water appeared: a pond ringed in black marble, big enough for the Ophiotaurus. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Those ripples in the pond again—it just doesn’t stop in one place. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I picture his grave, on the hill, overlooking the pond, some little nine-foot piece of earth where they will place him, cover him with dirt, put a stone on top. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "Magnesium!" he shouts as the white sparkles glitter down over the pond. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z “Like a baby with a toy boat in the pond?” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z When Paulette nodded, teeth chattering, Stella asked, “What in blazes were you doing in the pond in the middle of the night?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z In late summer, I was washing up in a pond when I noticed the plants growing around me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Standing in the gloom of the boathouse, staring out the open door at the pond, Kendra began to doubt. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Once a car goes by real slow around the pond, and I've got this strange feeling there's no one at the wheel. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z The stake was knocked out of my hand, into the pond. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The ides of March dawned on Friday with a green and brown sky, the color of the water in a dying pond. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z She was perched on the roof of her car, which was now parked across the street, on the grass bordering the duck pond. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Some fish get caught for biting and some fish just get caught for being in the wrong part of the pond.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Our favorite spot was at the mouth of the brook that trickled over the rocks and into the pond. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The nearest water was the pond, of course, half a morning's walk away. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The raft swam in a golden pond for several seconds. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Suddenly, the air was unbearably hot, and all she wanted to do was throw herself in the pond so she couldn’t hear the rest of this. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “All those names and the black surface. It’s like looking in a mountain pond at night, but with the names floating on it.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The girl next door and I can do all my favorite summer things together: swimming at the pond, watching TV, and riding bikes. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The stench of fish and pond scum clung to him. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z There was much pushing and shoving as the meerkats behind vied to reach the pond’s edge. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z During late summer and early fall, Cole had spotted the Spirit Bear every few days as it wandered along the shore outside the bay or drank from the stream near the pond. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I remember Max taking her notebook out while we were sitting on the rocks by the pond. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Eventually, we reached the ocean, and then our island, and then our pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Sitting on that rotten dock, with the sinking sun lighting up the pond, was the first time I’d ever missed a new episode and now I was going to be late for the rerun. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I was very cautious not to lean too far over the little ocean ponds. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z When you looked at a clear reflection, like in a pond or a mirror, the reflection looked almost exactly like the real thing. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Should I throw myself into the pond, and not being able to swim, join the body of L.C., the boy who had drowned last summer? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The ponds that had replaced Olmsted’s elegant paths shuddered under the impact of a billion falling droplets. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Lickety-split, a boy hurtled to the pond, stripped to his underwear, and leaped into the water. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z I gazed out across the pond, to the treeline and the soft wash of sky. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Nobody had ever told me that he was right there watching our daddy slip into that frozen pond. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z Papa didn't see Caleb's tears, and he sent him with an ax to begin chopping up the tree by the pond for firewood. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z One afternoon I was wheeling my barrow toward the pond when something sharp sank into my thigh. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s fifteen or twenty buildings gathered round the pond at the bottom of the falls before the river starts up again. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z For, on the old beamed ceiling of the parlor, streaks of light swam and danced and wavered like a bright mirage, reflected through the windows from the sunlit surface of the pond. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a muddy pond at the bottom of Lavender's garden and this was the home of a colony of newts. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z I glance back to steal a final look at our little beach and the pond and then hurry through the trees and beyond the cottage. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Broadfoot lived on the other side of the pond, in a dense section of forest that was home to many animals, most of whom were in desperate need of a good thaw. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z What it was doing in this pond, Leo wasn’t sure. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z At any rate, Leo couldn’t miss the fact that the guy at the pond was one super good-looking dude. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Teenagers stare at their phones, and Madge stares out the window, calling out: “There’s the Cleveland Circle ice rink! There’s a pond. Look, Amelia—geese!” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z I was sitting beside the pond with my sock in my hand and my shoe beside me, waiting for my foot to dry. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The Ford seemed to be in fine form again, and since the pond in question was but a small detour off my route, I decided to take up the batman's suggestion. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z She stopped when she found the small pond Badwa had referenced the night before, and knelt down to look into its uninterrupted surface. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The Beast loved the Bog and the Bog loved the Beast, just as a person loves the image of himself in a quiet pond of water; and looks upon it with tenderness. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I wrote a fresh note and left it under a rock in the middle of the AT, just in case, hoisted my pack, and went down to the pond, where there was a shelter. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, I try to see my reflection in a pond, but the water is always dirty. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “So the animals we saw at the pond were actually other creatures, like how the butterflies were fairies,” Kendra clarified. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z According to wetlands experts quoted in the paper, the whole thing had resulted from the pond being too shallow and the water too warm. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z As we walked toward the frozen pond, we saw them flailing their arms and squealing as they cast their bodies across the surface, half squatting to steady themselves. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z When you drop a stone into a pond, you create circular ripples in the water—waves. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They occupy a massive acropolis with fifteen giant columns atop the only high ground, overlooking the pond. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The frosting peaked and dipped like waves on a tiny pond. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Both are buried in Chicago, in Graceland, on a tiny island in the cemetery’s only pond. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was fine and silky and tasted like the cow pond. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Today we have a quarter-acre pond which already has frogs and little fish. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Roz spent the morning watching her son swim around and around the pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z As the woods give way to the clearing, I see paper lanterns hanging from tree branches, illuminating the pond. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z They organized work forces to construct large irrigation systems for agriculture and to enclose large ponds for fish production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The daffodils and crocuses were blooming and there were even a few ducks swimming around the pond. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “There’s one behind the pond. We’ll start with that. We need to leave now so we don’t run into the high tide.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z That talk with Tommy beside the pond: I think of it now as a kind of marker between the two eras. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Tiny waves flutter over the surface of the pond. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z My phone rings in my pocket, and I ignore it like I have for most of the day, squinting into the distance at Will as he skitters across the pond. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Manicured hedges and a fish pond added character to the yard. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It was like: You know those camera shots where there’s this goldfish swimming in a little bowl, and then the camera pulls back and you realize the bowl is actually a pond? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I listen to the orchestra above my head until I hear a commotion down by the pond. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She remembered a small pond, the sound of warriors whooping, and then a roar. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z As the sun sets, he goes to sleep next to a pond, under beech and elm trees. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The sun was sinking low and the evening call to prayer from the village mosque echoed across the pond. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z At night, by some chemical process unknown to me but obviously inhibited by sunlight, the predatory algae turned highly acidic and the ponds became vats of acid that digested the fish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The ground grew soggier, the grass grew taller, and soon the robot and the gosling were looking across a wide, murky pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z It was time to go to the pond. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “They take perfectly normal people and turn their lives into pond scum. That’s why it’s fun to watch. If everything was perfect, there’d be no story.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z He would track me to the store, from the store back to the pond, and from the pond to where I sat; but Mr. Loomis could not see that from the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I felt warm, furry bodies against my ankles as I looked into a pond. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Hi. Brought an extra. The pond’s not too far a walk from here.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z In the center was a dark pond covered with water lilies. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I realized how foolish I was being before I reached the pond. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The flock flew once around the pond before gliding down and gently splashing into the water. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z She walked in the direction of the song, following it till she found a small, bucolic waterfall that fed into a turquoise pond. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The next morning, he went out and began carving a mouse into his log instead of going to the pond. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z With his powerful legs, the robot launched himself up through the air, soaring in a high, graceful arc over the pond and down to the other side. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Larger bodies of water, such as ponds, were treated with larva-killing oil. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The continuous flow of water turned into isolated ponds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We split the last half inch, and I told Katz I would go on ahead to the pond, filter the water, and have it waiting for him when he arrived. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Yet, as we shall see, the invasion of streams, ponds, rivers, and bays by pesticides is now a threat to both recreational and commercial fishing. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z After showing them the pond and the ancestor rock, Cole headed back toward camp. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “That is not a pond,” said the robot. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Because Freak and I are still a couple of blocks from the pond, just kind of easing our way along, when these punks start mouthing off. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z We are all becoming big fish in this little pond. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We watched as the pond and then the stream dried up. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Looming things that move with the current, swinging all together like a flock of ducks set down on a pond, beaks to the wind. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I turn to the pond and eye a bright pink fish the size of my forearm shimmering his way from shadow to shadow, and I toss in the penny and make a wish. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z They reach the edge of a frozen pond, where a pine grows as tall as a cathedral. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In my sketchbook I tiy to draw my ankles distorted by pond water, but they don’t look warped and interesting. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Without thinking, he sprinted toward the pond, beat his wings, and flew away. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Water kept rising and rising until the entire pond bed was filled with a thin layer of water. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Maybe he tried to catch a boxcar and got flung into the pond and drowned. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The water that Nya fetched from the pond in the plastic jug could be boiled before they drank it. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I did not think he could see me, since I had stepped a way off the blacktop to look at the pond; Faro was sitting still in the high grass. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Maybe smells like dog, or wood, or pond water. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Neither of them spoke as they reached the river and started wading upstream toward the pond. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z We’d just gone for our last swim at the pond, the summer sun warm through the canopy of leaves. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The rowboat slowed and began to drift gently toward the farthest end of the pond. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She pecked and kicked and beat her wings against the fish until he surrendered to the murky depths of the pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z It splashes into the middle of the pond, and the coot hen is startled into the reeds. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I almost lose it right there, taking that first step, because it's a gunky pond and the mud is really oozy and deep and it sucks right up to my knees. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z There was rainwater, about four inches of it, sloshing about the floor of the lifeboat—Richard Parker’s own freshwater pond. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z And there, floating in the center of the pond, was an old gray goose. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He breathed deliberately, imagining himself as calm as the pond. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He was a slow, tottering little thing, but Roz was rarely in a hurry, and together they loved meandering along the forest paths and around the banks of the pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Doha hadn’t seen Gunwoo since the day at the pond, which felt like ages ago. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I was banished to this island, I came to this pond to get rid of my anger. It gave—” “You just said you can’t get rid of anger,” Cole argued. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The fish had been a problem in the pond for as long as anyone could remember, but he’d never attacked goslings before. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Cecilia, mercifully still in her underwear, was climbing into the pond, was standing waist deep in the water, was pinching her nose—and then she was gone. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Once, a pair of loons nested in the pond in the woods behind their house. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z This toy raft, mini-raft, micro- raft, might do for a pond, but not for the Pacific Ocean. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “I’m a good swimmer, but I’m not good enough to swim across that pond.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Just as his toes made contact, a white hand shot out of the water and seized Mendigo by the ankle, yanking him into the pond with a splash. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “Where I come from,” the snake girl said, “the punishment for treason is being covered in honey, bound to an open boat, and floated out into a stagnant pond. The flies eat you alive.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Above me I could see the beaks of a thousand magpies drinking from the pond, drinking and singing happily and filling their snow-white bellies. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The wall of wood and mud allowed only a trickle of water to pass through, and it had turned a narrow stream into the wide pond that many animals now called home. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z When all were harvested, she swung the sock over her shoulder and, striding joyously, rounded her pond and plunked the peas in her pot. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “We call him Harry the Hermit. Lives at the end of the mountain, south, just above that pond where the ducks landed.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z He set it up on some sticks on the shelter wall and took the feathers and insides down to the water, to his fish pond. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Walking to the pond, she rinsed them and laid them in the sun. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z To the north, where the pond overflows, the creek continues, disappearing into a forest of eucalyptus. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z After a while we came to a wide clearing circling a pond. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And she stayed close alongside till both boats reached the north end of the pond. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z Leaving my shoes on the sand, I creep into the pond up to my shoulders, my bra and underwear sticking to my goose-pimply body. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z They spread their blanket under a willow tree next to a pond. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In other words, a marked reduction in the poundages used would hardly alter the lethal situation, for applications of over o.i pound per acre to the pond itself are generally considered hazardous. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I went to another pond, making my way through the meerkats. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Echo led them down into a grassy meadow shaped like a blast crater, with a small pond in the middle. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It floats because ice on a pond is flat, and the water resists its sinking. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The beaver took them along the water and up to a dense section of forest that jutted into the pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Across the pond Seth yelled, and a small flock of cockatoos took flight. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Leaning over the pond, she saw in the glassy water the hollows of her cheeks. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Next to them, sandstone gods with eight hands who sit cross-legged on lotus flowers watch over the temple ponds. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When Cole arose the next morning to go to the pond, so did Edwin and Garvey. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z They didn’t have much technology, but they had a pond, and acres of land, and animals. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Come morning, I marched with Otto to uncramp my legs, and when I returned to the pond I found a handful of bonobos on the opposite edge, sipping at the water. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She takes another sip of her wine and looks out across the pond. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I guess it’s technically a pond, but it’s got swans and geese and it reflects the blue sky and the big puffs of white clouds. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Behind me in the pond I heard a big fish, a bass, jump and fall back into the water with a thump. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z They framed two white doves perched on a rock beside a pond. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z I walk into the eucalyptus grove to where the pond is dammed with earth and a weave of gnarled tree roots. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z “Now, Roz, do you know what tomorrow is? Tomorrow is Swimming Day! The day when all the parents take their goslings out on the pond for the first time. And you simply must bring Brightbill.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z In the heat of the summer, the boys jumped into the large pond. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z This pond looked muddy and dark, surrounded by nothing but sparse blades of dying grass. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I have seen the pond swell and the creek surge. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The sky was so clear that the glint of stars, the glimmer of the moon shimmered across the pond. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He had constructed it below his house on the far side of the pond. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z We kicked our legs into the air over the pond. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z It was hard to get a stable reflection out of the pond’s surface, but I could see enough to know I was heavily bruised. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The rabbits and porcupines shared the shade beneath the trees and the frogs and fish shared the cool brown waters of the forest pond. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For the briefest of moments I imagine clearing away the rock and digging a pond to grow water lilies and red bog flowers. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The two boys stripped off their school uniforms and jumped into the pond. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Grim, he's okay sometimes, like when Tony D. chased us into the pond, but most of the time he thinks he knows everything, which he doesn't. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z We're cutting through the side streets and heading down to the pond, all cold and white and frozen. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Willie Williams’ Do Drop Inn was bright with furry red lights in the distance and the pond’s fishy smell enveloped us. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Celia circles to the opposite side of the pond, nearer to where he stands. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She went in the opposite direction, deeper into the pond. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z From the pond, in shrill chorus, came the voices of hundreds of little frogs. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z She heard the overgrown puppet chasing her as she raced to the edge of the pond and hurled the wooden arms into the water. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Across the godswood, beneath the windows of the Guest House, an underground hot spring fed three small ponds. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Even if he wasn’t confused, he might simply have been driven by thirst to try to reach one of those ponds. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It probably happened as he traversed a series of melting beaver ponds just beyond the Teklanika’s western bank, but there is nothing to indicate that he suffered any harm in the mishap. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As we emerge from the narrow path between the trees, a perfectly round, still pond magically appears. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z It was far enough from the feed mill to be fairly quiet and it had a view of what I thought was a pond. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Across the pond a bullfrog spoke a deep note of warning. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The only remaining possibility was that he had walked past the turnoff while I was down at the pond filtering water, but this seemed manifestly improbable. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It was as the meerkats were hauling the fish out of the pond, displaying real feats of teamwork, that I noticed something curious: every fish, without exception, was already dead. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Once we reached the pond, Otto sprang from my arms and scampered to the edge, cupping water in his hand and gulping greedily. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z We bumped along past an oblong pond fifty yards across, ringed all around with tall cattails. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Ruth looked daunted that sunny day the minibus dropped us in front of the farmhouse, circled round the little pond and disappeared up the slope. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I nod and follow him up the slope to his house and we sit in two chairs on his back porch looking out at the pond and my own house on the other side. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “And we will live by this pond, where he can be around other geese. I will find us a sturdy tree nearby.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z And then the cart and Louisiana and Bunny were gone, clattering down the hill at an impossible speed, headed right for the pond that used to be a sinkhole. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Like in a mirror or in a flat pond of water, I found that I could see her reflection if I leaned back and twisted my head. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One of us doused her with water from the pond. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z On the banks of the fish pond, Bibi fell to the footpath. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Whatever vague plan I had conceived regarding returning to my pond is wiped from my mind as I zigzag and dive and leap to avoid the fireballs. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The sleeping pills that had been for the plane were still in their plastic cylinder, and also in the duffel I had a liter of pond water and a handful of foraged nuts. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z To get close to a pond, around 266 which they were densely packed, I had to nudge them away with my feet so as not to step on one. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The nearby pond was bathed in a silver sheen, parts of the sandstone wall reflecting back a wavery bluish light. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z But of course those memories would persist with or without the picture of the pond. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Every other week there was a news story about some geriatric citizen tripping into a retention pond and being devoured by alligators. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “By the pond,” the boy said, steadying his basket as he tipped his chin to show her the direction. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z Turned out the only water in Calm Waters was a single muddy pond, and it wasn’t so much calm as it was boring. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z We had to stop and walk a few times, traversing rickety wooden bridges stretching across ponds. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “To the north end of the pond and back again!” shouted the referee. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z The chilly air tingled her nose and she noticed that the cotton grasses by the pond were seeding out into white puffs. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The two friends wandered onwards, past the pond. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He set the mirror down and returned his attention to the pond. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They drive until it grows dark, without destination in mind, past hidden ponds and graveyards, culs-de-sac and dead ends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And so as the other parents began swimming across the pond, Roz stood safely in the shallows and watched. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z She moved to stand next to Koffi at the pond’s edge, nudging her shoulder. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z And in the pond you realize those are hippopotamuses floating in the water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z As Mrs. Turton explained the lab—observe pond water and tap water, and test pH of each—Justin and I looked at each other. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Stella found herself thinking about the frogs she’d heard in the pond. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Outside, in the ring of trees around the pond, the birds were celebrating, giving the new day a brass band’s worth of greeting. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She remained bent on the ground, her back as rounded as the turtle in the pond. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Undeterred, the three Alaskans dynamited the offending stick dams and drained the ponds. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I came to a clear space: the floor of the valley was thick with darkness, but the pond shone as round and clear as a mirror. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z A pond enclosed within a black stone wall that is surrounded by white gravel. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Finally, near the edge of the pond, half out of the water, she found the bag, now soggy and still. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And once, we found out about a man who had been killed by whitefolks and thrown into the pond. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In the cold pond, his mind became almost trancelike. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z That sounded like enough to fill a big pond. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z “Not too many people have a pond in their backyard.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z When I get down to the bayou, I keep on walking, right past the pond and up the path I’d taken with Sandy just last night. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z “Brightbill can go,” said Roz, “but I cannot swim. I cannot go on the pond with him. I will not be able to protect him.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z They played cricket, swam in the pond, and even organized a few games of hide-and-seek for the smaller children in the village. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z I stare at the once again glassy surface of the pond. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Then she broke down crying again arid turned away so she was facing the pond and didn’t have to look at me. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z They left ducks on the pond—runners on base—in the third and fourth, and against the Renegades, you best not waste scoring opportunities, because it’s going to come back to haunt you. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z The pond is not a large one - a quarter of a mile around its perimeter perhaps - so that by stepping out to any promontory, one can command a view of its entirety. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z When they came, finally, to the pond where he ordinarily refilled his water container and sometimes caught some fish, he found it stagnant. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z It must have been just before my talk with him by the pond; a time, I suppose, when Tommy was still coming out of that phase of being teased and taunted. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the time, for example, maybe a few weeks after the talk by the pond, when Miss Lucy was taking us for English. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The lotus pond was one of a dozen pools of water in the vast gardens of the house. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Cecilia had climbed out of the pond and was fixing her skirt, and with difficulty pulling her blouse on over her wet skin. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Eugene Johnson sat at a picnic table at Fort Detrick, near a duck pond, leaning forward and gazing at me. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt as if he’d dived into a deep, clear lake and discovered it was a shallow, knee-deep pond. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then Dicey saw water on the right, a large inland pond. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I follow her gaze out across the pond to the fringe of pine and white birch trees on the other shore. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The well water is strictly for the gardens and cooking; to wash ourselves and our clothes we must walk a mile to the pond. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In South Carol-liney, if there was some nice smooth water like this big pond, folks would jus’ willy-nilly pull their shoes off and dip their foots in the water, then go home. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z In the three decades since construction ended, much of the roadbed has been obliterated by washouts, brush, and beaver ponds, but the bus is still there. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I could see nothing that accounted for the meerkats’ fixed curiosity, and I might have given up on solving the mystery had squeaking and barking not erupted at a pond nearby. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z A little after noon on that Saturday in May, the shoppers pushing their grocery carts in Heinen’s heard the fire engines wail to life and careen away, toward the duck pond. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z On the way to the pond, Pixie was less enamored with the mermaid tree than I expected. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z It wasn’t warm or muddy, like the water from the pond. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m pretty sure I got it right: we were in Junior 4—a while after that incident with Madame, but still three years before our talk by the pond. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z When the waters receded, the area’s original inhabitants ensured that the fish drained into hundreds of artificial fish ponds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I caught and released some largemouth bass and a batch of bluegills in the pond shortly after it was built. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She hurried over to the fruit-laden tree, which had grown full and golden close to the pond. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I hurry through the kitchen out to the veranda and down the slope to the pond. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Then, out of the blue, a gaggle of silvery geese erupted from the reeds at the pond’s edge, honking and swirling in circular disorder. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Before heading to the pond, he knocked on the cabin door and called softly, “I’m going to the pond. Anybody going with me?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z For the moment, he’d totally forgotten about the pond, and Leo could see the sheet of bronze sinking into the sand. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The Fairy Queen had a shrine on the island in the middle of the pond. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z After a while we could stand up again and follow the creek to a place where an old beaver dam made a large pond. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z One pond that had been treated with DDT to remove unwanted shiners remained so poisonous through repeated drainings and flushings that it killed 94 per cent of the sunfish with which it was later stocked. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z All so still looking, so stopped, the pond and the moose and the trees, as he slid over them now only three or four hundred feet off the ground—all like a picture. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z “I want to explore. Let’s follow the brook up into the hills and see where it comes from; maybe there’s a pond somewhere and we can go swimming.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z She left on foot, moving at a sloth’s pace toward the pond. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The boat was on a pond or maybe lake. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A series of elaborate gazebos surrounded the pond, interconnected by a whitewashed boardwalk. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “Maybe we could go for a walk. Show me the pond I saw when we drove up?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The beaver ponds are never more than chest deep, but the water is cold, and as we slosh forward, our feet chum the muck on the bottom into a foul-smelling miasma of decomposing slime. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Cole reached the stream and splashed along the bank toward the pond. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z From there, they once again entered the water and waded up the edge of the stream until they reached the pond. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z There are three ponds or small lakes in it, and apparently these are fed by springs, for they never dry up. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z She thought it might be a pond or a quiet place no one knew about. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Tall Andras stalked away, but she could see that he was headed to the freshwater pond beyond the thick trees at the edge of the village. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And then, with a loud burst of wingbeats, the goose fluttered up from the pond and landed right on Roz’s head. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z "Not the whole summer. Just the last five days. Remember we went to Bar Harbor? And we swam at the pond?" The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z “You’ll go into one soon enough. There’s a pond behind the house. It will happen there.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z We raced through marshy fields of high grass and ponds and stunted trees. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He had it trained on the pond below where ducks were swimming. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Why didn’t they build gardens and ponds instead? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Though the fish are expensive to maintain, Ti Jean looks upon the pond approvingly because he knows it makes Farmer happy. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “All pond water should be boiled for five minutes to remove germs. It’s in the Scout handbook.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Others were soaking wet and half-drowned from swimming across ponds and creeks. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z So far there’s been no sign of a freshwater stream or pond, and the saltwater’s undrinkable. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The path curves through the trees toward the pond, and I squint into the sunshine sparkling across the water, knowing that in places it's too deep to measure. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I hovered in the doorway, frowning and thinking of swans gliding away in the pond in the park. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Hopeful yellow bullfrogs cruised the scummy pond for mates. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Scooping him up, she walked slowly along the pathway past the lotus pond and crossed the half-moon bridge to the Matriarch’s quarters. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Smith kept the horse in the small pond of Detroit, where Seabiscuit followed the Governor’s Handicap win with an impressive score in the Hendrie Handicap. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The initial event in the play has the same effect as someone throwing a stone into a pond, he tells them. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I clasped my hands and was about to pray to the heavens when the waters of the pond exploded. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The water of the stream and the pond looked completely transparent. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I spent hours stirring up the pond bed with my toes and a stick, gathering the tubers that floated to the top. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He was standing at the edge of the pond. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z It whistled over the pond, gliding like a hawk before its blade grazed Adiah’s shoulder and landed in a nearby tree with a dull thud, splintering its wood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “Well, the foliage is thick. Maybe there are ponds or springs somewhere,” I say doubtfully. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The summer before he started middle school, before he turned into pond scum, he got a forest-green quilt. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Then he pointed at the pond and said, “They say there’s a gator in there.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And even at home, whenever Nya made the long hot walk to the pond, she had to drink as soon as she got there. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The pond is the best place to wallow in my wretched state. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z My mother liked to look at the ducks and plan how she would dig a pond for them near the sweet potato field and arrange straw for their eggs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z So that very day I made a staircase of stones under the pond overflow. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon his floor was like the healthy banks of a pond in spring when the tadpoles, having just turned, sprang in the wet grass. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Ready to defend their community, they grabbed their shotguns and drove to the pond near the mill. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z This was also the first day he had skipped going to the pond. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Many of the farm’s streams and ponds would simply dry up if not for the cover of trees. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z My clothing's damp, but I don't know whether pond water, dew, rain, or sweat is the cause. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Fuchs was given a tiny Tech Area office overlooking a pond. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Two days later, halfway there, he arrived in heavy rain at the beaver ponds that blocked access to the west bank of the Teklanika River. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I was only lucky he could not see the pond from the house; I had not given away the whole show—only half of it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z But what were seafaring fish doing in a freshwater pond? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Feivel, quit your moaning and help me get him to the pond!” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z To the pond and back—to the pond and back—nearly a full day of walking altogether. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Darkness said, “He wants to nap before returning to his pond.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Around the edges of the pond, before it whitened up, you could lie down on the clear ice and see pebbles and drowned sticks and sand. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z “I mean, when he was remembering the shark that got stuck in the pond.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z But Baba describes his ancestral jute farm with bright eyes: coconut and mango trees, perfect for a small boy to climb; a sparkling pond full of tasty fish; lush fields, green after the monsoon. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I wonder if, unlike Thoreau, two hundred years from now I might still be able to visit my pond and forest. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The meerkats were abandoning the ponds—indeed, the whole plain—and rapidly making for the forest. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z They walked behind the apartment buildings to the trail that circled the pond and picnic area. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “I heard your engine, so I ran back from the pond. I slipped some. What are you doing here?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Before her lay a pristine pond, a couple of hundred yards across, with a small, verdant island at the center. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z She thrust her hands into the cloak’s interior pockets, and it rippled like the trail of a quick fish through a silent pond. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z At the center of the garden is a sunken lily pond with little mossy stairs that curve all the way around it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z In the warm enclosed waters of farm ponds, conditions are very likely to be lethal for fish when insecticides are applied in the vicinity. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He could think of only one other place where Pond would take him: his pond. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I recognized those tracks from the many winters in Piatra Neamț where I had stumbled out onto the frozen pond with a neighbor friend, dull blades tied to the bottoms of our shoes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z When you’re living in a pond of algae, you turn green. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Not a single meerkat went down to the pond. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z When dawn finally arrived, he hiked to the opening of the bay instead of going to the pond. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z After an endless trek through trash- strewn wetlands, we found the salt ponds: rectangular fields of shallow water. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I was all the way down at the entrance pond before I stopped. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t you get frozen when you soak in the pond?” he asked. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Plus a giant turtle shell that turned out to be a precast fiberglass pond lining. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Dad'd let me fill the pond with water from the hosepipe. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z As Minki and Kitae eagerly agreed, Doha seized his friend and shoved him into the pond, whereupon the others promptly splashed him with water. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He could see them leaping high out of the water, trying to make their way up through the gushing gorge of water above the pond. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Strolling leisurely around the bank of the Abbey pond, the two companions gathered up the nets preparatory to spreading them upon the water. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He talked about the weather, a stray dog he’d seen, the pond, the size of a mosquito he’d swatted, and new boots he wanted but couldn’t afford. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z When his breathing quieted and he stopped sobbing, I lifted his face and looked into his eyes, as brown as a shady pond after rain. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z By the mast pond, where the great spars of ships lay refracted, we saw a little girl with a bucket, a vain and minute assay at extinguishing the flames. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Hacker’s salamander buried itself in the detritus at the bottom of the pond. eccentric. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Brightbill had spent his entire life by the pond, and he was becoming very curious about what lay beyond his neighborhood. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Paper lanterns are hung from tree to tree, and Tía Mimí's lily pond is cleaned out so we can again see the coins we once threw in for good luck. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z But his fish-trash pile of bones and skin and guts was in the pond area and the prospect of food brought them back. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z With a wider brush she splashed blue across the pond, making it sparkle like the one on the back of Father’s rickshaw. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z He was soon gazing across the glassy surface of a beaver pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Soon the shores of the pond were so crowded that a policeman was sent from headquarters to announce that everybody would have to stop pushing, but nobody did. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z And then it pulls back again, so you can see the pond is really the ocean? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I pictured the snowflaky, Grandma Moses villages, the reaches of swampland rattling with dried cattails, the ponds where frog and hornpout dreamed in a sheath of ice, and the shivering woods. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “I was going to take Jubilee fishing over at Miss Esther’s pond. She’s down the road and doesn’t mind, long as I call her first.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I was falling from the sky down to the ground, into a pond. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though her toes were numb with cold and she knew they needed to get out of there, she could not take her eyes from the horror glimmering toward them from across the pond. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Now the edge of the lake was over five miles away, and it was little more than a small pond full of dirty water. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z We keep walking, finally making it into the park and to the giant pond, the lights just a little bit farther. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z First the ripples spread from a point on the water’s surface, then I throw a stone into the pond. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward, as he carried the rock, he had to admit it felt good to return to the pond. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He explored the garden and the pond and the forest floor. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The lot is nearly empty, the outer perimeter defined by people and animals, all running as far and as fast as they can, expanding and dispersing like a ring on the surface of a pond. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z After everything that had happened that night, his words sank like stones in a still pond. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Before I know it, I’m parallel with Phil in the middle of the pond. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He started to follow them, then changed his mind and walked to the edge of the pond. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Middle of winter I almost drowned in a cow pond when I was little, maybe eight. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Ever see a duck frozen in a pond, with his feet in the ice? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Tomorrow I'll stay here, resting, camouflaging my backpack with mud, catching some of those little fish I saw as I sipped, digging up the roots of the pond lilies to make a nice meal. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I inch forward, urged on by the pond’s lovely coolness against my bruised and tired skin and a curiosity to see how far I will let myself go. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Kristi stands in the shallows, her hands tracing across the pond’s surface. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z For three days, he fetched firewood from the bush and water from the pond. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The ripples don’t even reach our side of the pond. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The cousins with their bugs — those bugs — and that funny wooden bridge over the neck of the pond, collapsing once under their collective weight. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It flapped its mutilated wings and blundered across the pond. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Ajay was already stretched out on the muddy bank at the far side of the pond, pretending to be asleep. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Silver finally gave the signal to go, and led him and the others down the hill and out behind the pond. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The pond was large, and deep enough to swim in, although we weren’t allowed to swim alone here. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z From there, we could see a couple of kettle ponds in the distance and a row of buildings on a wind-scoured bluff overlooking Buzzards Bay. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Aboveboard, the tall grass around the pond was buckling under the weight of the snow, but the happy bulrushes stood tall under Cat in the Hat-high caps of powder. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z It lives in a dirty environment, but amid the muddy pond lies a beautiful flower emerging from the water. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Between a duck pond and a blacksmith’s forge, he came upon the tree that gave the place its name, an oak ancient and tall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I climb onto the granite rock at the edge of the pond and look back at my house. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “The domesticity in this poem, these kitchens, gardens, ponds...is not a metaphor for the ludicrous war in the South Atlantic in this year?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “I apologize. I’ll ask for your permission the next time. Actually, I don’t have to go right away to Darkness. If you want, I can show you my old pond.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Kendra had wanted to paint the pavilions around the pond, and Lena had quickly sketched a scene with startling accuracy, as if the housekeeper had the place memorized. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Gradually, it fractured like thin ice on a pond, and a head emerged. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z As I sat there by the pond, I heard the tractor start. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z In Louisiana, farmers complained of loss in farm ponds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Deal. But you’re going to have to show me more than baiting the hook if you don’t want me to accidentally throw your rod into the pond,” I joked. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z That tiny voice was more than the old goose could bear, and she began gliding across the pond and squawking to the robot, “What are you doing with that hungry hatchling? Where are his parents?” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “A nice little boat. For the pond. I’ve always wanted to do that.” I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z I tried to imagine my daddy running out into that pond, but I couldn't. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z The memory of that sharp-toothed smile in the water, hearing that terrible voice echoing from the pond, made my stomach twist. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The plants around the pond had edible seeds, as did all of the many grasses. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Ethan and I sit down opposite each other on a flat granite rock near the edge, and I appreciate the pond’s beauty for the first time, seeing it through Ethan’s eyes. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z We know from the fossil record that the origin of life happened soon after, perhaps around 4.0 billion years ago, in the ponds and oceans of the primitive Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mum peered into the pond like a mother. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z We chased after the desert rats that lived in the wrecked cars, or caught tadpoles and frogs in the scum-topped pond. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “I. don’t think so. Not with this many of us here. Tomorrow morning, whoever wants to can join me for a soak in the pond. Sometimes the Spirit Bear comes and watches me soak.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The pond was full of naiads who liked to drown people, which meant she needed a sturdy boat. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Mister, did you catch the frogs from the ponds in the country or do you raise them? First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You must be able to remember. If you’re round the back with the pond behind you, and you’re looking over towards the North Playing Field...” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s no pond. It’s just a bit of countryside.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It reminds me of playing in the garden as a child, looking for frogs by the pond with Ben. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the pond back home, the lake was dried up. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She turned away from the holding ponds, made her way to the front door of the main building, and was met there by Dimitri. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The steel was polished to such a high sheen that she could see her reflection in the breastplate, gazing back at her as if from the bottom of a deep green pond. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They breathed over the dark pond covered with water lilies. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Possibly in part, but not an entire pond in one night. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It is a splash in the galactic pond, a temporary configuration of disrupted stars, a galaxy with a central piece torn out. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Every day on her lunch break, Mrs. Sylvester took a bag of swan food and went down to the pond by the hospital. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z She munched, decided the plant might taste better if cooked, and went to the pond for water. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Between the pond and the bam was a house—and, yes, a woman sitting in the sun. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Kendra crossed the room to the painting she had done of the pond. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It was getting worse for her now, and she believed that she had to touch every separate slat in every separate bench beside the pond. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I say, “There’s more of the map. A part that comes after the pond.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z I fixed my eyes on the still surface of the pond. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Beetle waited a long time before she came out of hiding and waded into the muddy pond. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be fun to have him go, but the pond is more than a quarter of a mile off. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z They coasted down the lane and out onto the frozen pond in the pasture. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z With a shout Neel grabbed Ajay s heel, yanked his friend backward, and headed across the pond as fast as he could. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Some floated up to the surface of the ponds, the scraps that fed the meerkats. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z There was a pump house by the lotus pond. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z If they both showed up at the same time, they shared the pond, stealing curious glances at one another and making occasional small talk as they swam and played. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z About a hundred paces in front of him, he could see a small pond. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Write about what you saw by the pond!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Instead of a roiled mess of waves cancelling each other out, you would have a pond of perfectly ordered waves, with high points and low points appearing regularly at the same spots again and again. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z When I carried on orbiting the pond, he was back. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Reaching the pond, he stripped in the darkness, then waded in without hesitation. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “We shouldn’t go into the water today. The pond is pretty clean, but there’s still random stuff floating around in there, and those bandages aren’t waterproof.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Len sprints up the shuttle’s ramp like a Jesus lizard across a pond. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z After thinking I had been clever—taking his water can to the pond, running to the cave and back—I had returned visibly carrying the knife and the milk can. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z But the pond was polluted, so my mom needed to boil the water. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Then he shoveled away some of the snow near the pond’s shore while I went up to the Big Barn and brought down three loads of wood. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z The garden is overrun with weeds, the koi pond dried up. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Far from the herd, she stopped by a pond and made her bed. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And he liked knowing that the forest and the pond were just outside. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z She gave Adiah a pointed look and was grateful when the daraja subtly moved down the pond’s edge to give them a bit of space. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z But the pond was drying up; each day it was harder to fill the gourds. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let us examine pond water for algae. Van Leeuwenhoek was the first man to have seen what you will see today. He was a wool merchant, much as I was a cotton merchant.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z What was he doing a million miles from nowhere, sitting in a freezing pond beside a bizarre Tlingit Indian with a stick? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z A friend who once pulled me from a frozen cow pond and saved my life. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z I went the long way around, of course, by the pond and the store so that I could approach along the road as I had left. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He had seen plenty of rabbits, and there were waterfowl on the ponds. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was out”—Hangman stopped “skating”—“er...last January, when the pond in the woods froze over. Messing about with some other kids. I had Granddad's watch on. His Omega—” Hangman blocked “Seamaster.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I waded into the pond, shivering as the cool water rose higher on my legs. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The winding road back to the house led under stone bridges, through woods and villages, and past marsh ponds where swans floated on mirrorlike water. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I went between the walls of clay and picked up bricks that had cracked open; when my barrow was full, I would wheel it out onto a wooden scaffold and dump it into a pond. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The pond with the gazebos streaked by beneath her. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “An ornamental pond. A fountain or miniature cascade, perhaps.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The pond is overrun with bullfrogs that croak all night long. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Herons will hunt and eat many things in winter, even though the ponds are frozen over. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I fish for the black bass of the pond,” Cico said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z On the fifth day of the storm, the baggage train crossed a rippling expanse of waist-high snowdrifts that concealed a frozen pond. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They sprayed truck gardens and dairy farms, fish ponds and salt marshes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When she laughed and said no, Crazy Joe ran and jumped straight through the ice of a frozen pond and refused to come out until she agreed to go out with him. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I can’t remember what I did before leaving for the pond. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Gogol puts on his coat, goes outside and attempts to walk around the pond once. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They crowded the edge of the pond, slapping at the ripples. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z When the spear was done, although still crude, he jammed a wedge between the points to spread them apart and went to the fish pond. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z He slept until about noon, and during that time I went down to the far field, past the pond, to get the two cows and the calf and put them back into the pasture. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Barefoot and lacing up his deerskin shirt as he stepped outside, he looked over the pond into Frightful’s nest box. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z And she answered, “Just fine,” and wished, for a fleeting moment, that she could stay with them forever in that sunny, untidy little house by the pond. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And I also began to cry again, that this was our fate, to live like two turtles seeing the watery world together from the bottom of the little pond. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, I make it to the round clearing, where a pond sits before me, the edge of the swampland that stretches out for miles and miles. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z As he sat cross-legged on the wall that surrounds the pond, gazing out at the ships through his spyglass, Stuart noticed one boat that seemed to him finer and prouder than any other. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z “It’s the bit round the back of the duck pond,” Tommy said. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I figured we'd get in trouble for running into the pond. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Water sluiced out of my trouser legs as I scrambled out of the pond. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z A few hundred yards beyond the river the trail disappeared into a series of chest-deep beaver ponds. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m still stunned this has been here all along, because when you think of parks, you think of trees and fountains and ponds and playgrounds. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Brian looked out to the side and saw a small pond and at the edge of the pond some large animal—he thought a moose—standing out in the water. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z All but Little Rabbit, who was little enough to hide in a pile of rocks by the pond and smart enough to stay so still that the Terrible Things thought he was a rock himself. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you want, I’ll show you the pond where I go to soak every morning.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The last thing Cole gave up was carrying the ancestor rock and soaking in the pond. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z It seemed like there were acres and acres of grass and a pond and wonderful shrubs. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Standing in the pond, my ankles look crooked, cut by the water’s surface. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z But I look across the pond at Will again, the boy I love, who has B. cepacia and will never get the opportunity in front of me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z From the top of the hill, the pond looked like a single dark eye staring at Raymie. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z “I'm just going out for a minute. I want to check the temperature in the lower holding pond” Claire could see Heather frown suspiciously. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “There’s nothing. Nothing. Closest was that thing to dry up puddles and ponds, that Drought Charm, but that was nowhere near powerful enough to drain the lake.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The sheep ran in the field, and far off the cows moved slowly to the pond, like turtles. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z “You couldn’t have stayed out there in the pond forever,” Zach said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Why, oh why, hadn’t the search party thought of looking in the Abbey pond? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “This pond gave me a choice. I could focus on the left end or the right end of the stick. I could focus on the sunrise or the dark clouds. It was my choice.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z And the sack with eel and cat was tossed into the pond. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The open mine sometimes filled with rainwater, making a small pond, but mostly it was just hills and trees and lots of rocks. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite all the blankets on him, Grandpa was shaking like a dog pulled out of a frozen pond. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z As he came out of the darkness of the pond the sun caught his shiny scales and the light reflected orange and yellow and red. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z That same morning I had gone to get his water from the pond—in the same general direction as the store—and reappeared carrying things of mine, milk can and knife. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Why had the beaver and fish come so close to him in the pond? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z And so I walked five thoroughly agreeable miles up Kittatinny to Sunfish Pond, a very comely forty-one-acre pond surrounded by woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z So I followed her down to the frozen pond. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In the sunset, the light was bouncing off a large flat sheet of Celestial bronze that lay at the bottom of the pond, washing Mr. Handsome’s features in a warm glow. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Headmaster pushed Neel back through the low-hanging branches that bordered the narrow path to the pond. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z If I had to say what my marks meant, it would be this: Straight-faced guy looks at his reflection in a still pond. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Near Block 28 some of the men who had been professional gardeners built a small park, with mossy nooks, ponds, waterfalls and curved wooden bridges. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Swallows were still thought to hibernate at the bottom of ponds. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z My stomach had felt a little off ever since we’d drunk the pond water. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I walked along the road past the pond and then turned left across the field. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Leonard Vaughan and his friends had it all figured out: if they got to the pond first, it was theirs for the day. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z There are paths for walking, a small exercise complex, a man-made pond surrounded by benches and willow trees. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Boy, like the day we were playing ice hockey and I went through the ice on that cow pond. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z In fact, acceptance of cognitive egalitarianism means they cannot think historically, for a cognitive egalitarian cannot explain why, to take but one example, we no longer believe that swallows overwinter in ponds. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z My mouth opened, closed, and opened again like a fish pulled from the pond and thrown on the bank. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “I shall pretend that I am in a smart restaurant and that this is the lobster pond.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” Heather said after a moment, “mind your feet. It s muddy by the pond.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I walk over to a shallow pond near the roadside and squat down. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Bike paths, a fake pond or two, a basketball court, a huge daycare facility. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the three of them along the bank of the pond at the cabin. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The force of the blow knocked me into the wall, and I banged my head, the pain of the collision spreading through my skull like ripples on a pond. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “It’s a pond, but it’s not far. There’s a raft and a little beach that anyone can use.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z When we got back to the house, I sat beside his bed for a while, and then went on to the pond. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Yes," he replied. "With the well here, no one will have to go to the pond anymore. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Louisiana was stretched out on the grass by the pond, which was really a sinkhole. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Beyond the hills to the north lay the African Burial Ground and beyond that, the big pond called the Collect. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Each day I found some time to walk to the pond where people went to catch sun perch and striped bass. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was out at the pond Saturday night. When I was walking by the garden, I saw a car pull up on the gravel. Was that you?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z They reached an open area, and Kendra saw the tall hedge that surrounded the pond with the gazebo boardwalk. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z They walked through the lobby with its shiny white floor, giant chandelier, and fish-filled pond. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z They collected an additional four thousand crates of pond lily roots, which Olmsted’s men quickly planted, only to watch most of the roots succumb to the ever-changing levels of the lake. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The other bonobos remained fixated on the pond, but Songololo came over. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The Triton pond rose before them, an inky mass whose complicated outline was honed against a sky turning greener as the light fell. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And so the robot and the gosling walked around the pond, to where Loudwing and her friends were chatting. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z On our side of the pond there’s a strip of sandy beach, but the far side has a steep, scooped-out bank, tangled with bushes and the roots of trees. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Styx’s went all the way down to touch the top of the pond. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I squirmed away, but Art’s spicy aftershave drowned out the smell of alcohol and pond scum. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Then he looked back, and to his great joy he perceived that the Lillian had gone off in a wild direction and was yawing all over the pond. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z The nymphs grumbled, but they parted to reveal a young man kneeling at the edge of the pond, gazing intently at the water. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Across town her family was just now gathering on the bank of the duck pond, watching the firefighters douse the Richardson house, flame by flame. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I got a pail from the kitchen and ran to the stream where it flowed into the pond; the water is clearest there. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z At lunchtime, he stood at the pond feeding ducks, alone. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The memories of driving past trees, ponds, lakes, creeks, and rivers flooded back to me from the last time we had driven down three years ago. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I catch fish in the pond all the time, and eat them; they have been one of my best food supplies except in the middle of winter, when they stopped biting. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z But when they turned a corner, he saw a small pond off to the right. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z All the ponds had the same round shape and were about the same size—roughly forty feet in diameter. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z On clear summer evenings, they would sit outside and watch fireflies twinkling around the pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Far over to the right, at the edge of a marshy pond, a wisp of smoke curled gently from a lopsided chimney. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Home for just long enough to eat, Nya would now make her second trip to the pond. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Every year when the rains stopped and the pond near the village dried up, Nya's family moved from their home to a camp near the big lake. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing on the edge of the holding ponds, they gave the young fish silly names, and invented personalities for them. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The quiet bubbling of the pond and his slightly heavier breathing are the only sounds in the room. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The pond was a short detour from the path around the island, about halfway between school and home. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Although this was only his fourth trip to the pond, Cole proudly led the way. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z It was exactly what they were seeing in real life—the guy staring at himself in the pond. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z At this point, feeling more angry than frightened, Stella, with strong, sure strokes, slowly made her way to the bank of the pond. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “I have a telescope. Mr. Chris said you will like to see through it. Not stars only. Small things everywhere. From my hill”—he smiled—“I get acquainted with all the ducks on the pond.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z A lotus flower doesn’t grow in a swimming pool, but grows in a muddy pond. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Kendra kept cranking, relieved that she would be able to paddle a boat directly out of the boathouse onto the pond. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z We both watch Moonie coming full circle around the pond. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Werfel and Spurge found a pond to drink from, with a few trees around it. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Now they were almost to the detour that led to the pond. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z The clangor of machinery and hammer greeted Nya each time she returned from the pond—unfamiliar noises that mingled with the voices of men shouting and women singing. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z No roads cross it; ponds and lakes freckle its immensity. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Senator Mendoza looked as though he wanted to strangle Matt right there and throw his body into the lotus pond. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z On the far side of the pond, peacocks strutted and preened. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Our Company proceeded north along the shore, a woodland upon our right; then marched along a road that led into the interior of the island, past a sizeable pond and several prosperous farms. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The crew drove to the pond and back several times a day. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a word I looked up this morning after Mother used it to describe Mr. Bender who lives behind us on the other side of the pond. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The air in the great hall shimmered and rippled, like a pond when you skip stones across it, and the world came back to life. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z And the cabin, with its own pond to the back, and the river down the bank out front, was special. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z And there, in the shadows of the trees across the pond, Stella could make out half a dozen of them. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “You have seen that the pond is only a puddle now. Winter is coming, and the dry season. And this fighting.” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z At an early practice, as the boys were scrimmaging, a gaggle of geese took flight from a pond on the other side of the woods. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I was crying hard, so many tears, but they drank and drank, so many of them, until I had no more tears left and the pond was empty, everything as dry as sand. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z But the artichoke doesn’t stop, and Zola pushes through the gate and grabs the metal bucket and throws it into the pond of frogs. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z What we do is go down to the playground and cut over behind that little patch of trees, just in case anybody is looking, and then we can circle around behind the pond. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z He couldn’t stay here.The rainy season in the Ajo Mountains was brief, and Matt had a very clear idea of how soon the little frog ponds and hidden grottoes would dry out. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The shadows of the coconut trees were growing tall and thin when Naima reached the pond. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z There had been heavy rains all spring, making the ponds deeper than usual. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Here, above a pond, the dragonflies dart and the sun strikes fire from their wings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Then the golden carp swam by Cico and disappeared into the darkness of the pond. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A tremor shaking the ground and ripples wrinkling the surface of the ponds were the only indications that some great force was passing through. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z With money from a part-time job in Brooksville, he bought materials for landscaping and for constructing a fish pond across from the gangplank. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Me holding the panda, the two of us standing on either side of the pool cue, us floating underwater, the filled table at his birthday party, me spinning around and around on the icy pond. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z We all stared at the frogs, the hundreds of frogs climbing out of the pond on our left, fighting their way up the bank, leaping for the hot pavement. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Her journey from the pond had been uneventful. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z A drawing of Stella, spinning around on that icy pond, moments before I told her I loved her. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Below it, in a deep pit, alligators sunned themselves on rocks surrounding a pond. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z We raided the barn and the pond both. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Normally, when something makes a wave, the wave travels outward, gradually spreading out and losing strength, like the waves moving away from a pebble dropped into a pond. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Apparently the chemical remained in the mud of the pond bottom. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He can remember its long legs looked like the stems of the cattails all around the pond. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Across our yard and the pond, I see curious Mr. Bender, a mere speck in the distance. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z After all, she could’ve just as easily gone left instead of right, back around the pond instead of over the hill... Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She sings a little tune about a yellow frog and its lily pad and pond. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She stood in her gray garden and watched a sheet of ice slowly form on the pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z We crawled through the green thicket and sat by the edge of the pond. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t know there was a pond,” Styx was saying. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “I used to sit by the pond and watch him swimming to the surface, biting the air with his little beak. He is a very old turtle.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Miles pushed the rowboat off and sprang in, and soon they were gliding up toward the near end of the pond, where the water came in from the stream. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Lots of trees and a pretty little pond with a path that goes around it. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z In the abandoned ornamental garden, Rahel, watched by lolling dwarfs and a forsaken cherub, squatted by the stagnant pond and watched toads hop from stone to scummy stone. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In the picture Axel’s looking to the pond, maybe wishing for a sandhill crane to visit. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He chewed on a tin can as we stared across the pond at the line of new cabins under construction. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z They smelled the food before they spotted a cluster of picnic benches set up around a bird-filled pond. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Strange sounds were echoing from the far side of the pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z After the pond's shell was lowered and we stopped for toasted sandwiches, Mum announced she was going into Tewkesbury to do some shopping. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Frost-white chairs and chaises crowd around tables like swans floating on a serene pond. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z It did not occur to him that all the world might not desire such delicacies as two pounds of pork and six ounces of beef and a small pond fish. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z It descends and splashes into the middle of the pond, ripples and spray exploding the quiet glass. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I walked away front that haven which held the pond and the swimming waters of the golden carp feeling a great weight in my heart. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Anastasia waded through the pond, pulling shoots up from the muddy bed and eating them. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Way beyond the pond and the playground and the school, and for a while we're going through this really ritzy neighborhood of big white houses and blue swimming pools. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Nothing distracted the meerkats from their little lives of pond staring and algae nibbling. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It blotted out the horizon, the far dips and heaves, the grasses, the pond, and finally her own frost heave. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The conditions usually responsible for these losses in Oklahoma were those made familiar by repetition over the years: the application of insecticides to crops, a heavy rain, and poison washed into the ponds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Not far from here. On a hill, beneath a tree, overlooking a pond. Very serene. A good place to think. ” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And she had lost a new friend when Lena was returned to the pond. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Brightbill soon forgot about the incident with Rockmouth, and he spent his mornings cruising around the pond with the other goslings. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z As you head back from the house to the barn, the pasture, the far field, the pond and the brook all lie on your right. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I can feel Abby’s arms around me back at the pond, holding me close. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z The next night I looked, but no new fish came into the pond. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z We walked over the brittle grass and when we came to the pond, Maribel crouched down and laid her hand against the surface. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I pulled away to wipe tears from my cheeks, but he took my face in his hands, smiled and said, “We’ll always have the pond.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “An-mei,” she whispered, “have you seen the little turtle that lives in the pond?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Getting it there was fairly easy, for I simply felled the big hemlock at the edge of the pond. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes the ponds receive not only contaminated runoff but also a direct dose as crop-dusting pilots neglect to shut off the duster in passing over a pond. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Nya's mother tied the baby on her back and walked with several other women to a place between the village and the pond. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the wishing coins at the bottom of my grandparents’ pond have been fished out. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z At last, we spied an ancient female gnome sitting on the ground near the pond. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I had learned that there are still a few salt ponds at the bottom of San Francisco Bay. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The window shattering like the ice on a pond in spring and covering us all with little bits of glass. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When dawn finally came, he felt groggy and rolled over for more sleep—it wouldn’t hurt to skip the pond just one morning. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z We stood by the hole in the earth, close enough to hear the pond water lapping against the edge and to see ducks shaking off their feathers. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I left my pack propped against a big rock at the trailside and went with our water bottles and the filter down to the pond edge and filled up. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “I must be on my way. The effects of sweetgrass are only temporary, and I must return to my pond. Don’t forget our agreement. I saved your life; now you must save mine.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The signal was gliding around the edge of the pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Kendra finished a complete lap around the pond, walking on clean wooden planks the entire way. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z As she rounded the pond she squinted at the sun again, for it had not climbed up the sky but was still sitting on the horizon. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We walk slowly toward the small bridge, edging carefully along the shoreline of the pond. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z With Geak balanced on one of her hips, Ma takes my hand and walks Chou and I into the pond for our first wash in six days. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the one that Frank gave Byrd at the dining room table, and like that hug by the muddy pond years ago. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z We got our water then from seasonal ponds. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Summers are always hot, but that year holding ponds dried up, even some wells went dry. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Suckley wheeled his bucket to the edge of the pond, balanced it there, and raised a sort of gate. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I look across the pond at Will, watching as he spins slowly around and around and around. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Because later, when we're down by the pond and the first of the rockets is streaking up, up, up, Freak is making a fuss because he can't see. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z We surely didn’t have a pond in Boston. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, teams of Sparra warriors were jointly lifting struggling rats and flying high to drop them into the middle of the Abbey pond. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z It will be like the ripples that spread out on the surface of a pond when a stone is thrown in. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a quiet afternoon on the pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Maybe Grandpa Sorenson would give them permission to paddle around the pond. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “There’s got to be some well, or a pond, where I can look at myself.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z It had fish in it, too, though not as big or as many as the pond. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He wanted to laze away the afternoon at a dumpling house, sip plum juice by a green pond flickering with orange-and-white carp. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z We started out for the pond, with him wearing my father’s coat and carrying David’s fishing pole. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I can’t see it, but I sense it—a great deal of it—moving just beneath the dirt like ripples in a pond. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z We drop our bags at the cabin and head directly to the pond. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The cattail pond now had steel gray and rust brown pipes running up from it toward the groves, like someone had connected straws together in four crooked lines. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Salinas was surrounded and penetrated with swamps, with tule-filled ponds, and every pond spawned thousands of frogs. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes when there’s been no moon or the sky has been cloudy, I have fished at the pond. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z This explained the disappearance of the fish in the pond. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Ajay had always been fast and agile in ponds and on the cricket field, but that didn’t seem to matter much in their village. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z The cool waters of the creek came out of a dark, shadowy grotto of overhanging thicket, then flowed about thirty feet before they entered the large pond. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Pixie stood on the shore of our pond and declared it good. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He didn’t notice the beavers diving back into the pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Chlorides, chlorates, salts of phosphonic acid, fluorides, and arsenic had been discharged from the Rocky Mountain Arsenal into holding ponds during the years of its operation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I walk farther down the slope until I am stopped by the pond. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I'd spent the morning competing with the squirrels for nuts and the slightly warmer afternoon wading in shallow ponds harvesting katniss. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z As I sat by the pond with Abby, that memory floated up and hovered over me like a swarm of gnats. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z It was the same size and shape as the retaining pond in his own neighborhood. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The pond water was piped into what looked like a giant plastic bag—a bag big enough to fill the entire bed of the truck. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z There's a stone ghat for washing clothes at the edge of the pond. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Suddenly the scene was empty; the wet patch on the ground where Cecilia had got out of the pond was the only evidence that anything had happened at all. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The winter days were short, so there was no time to waste, and rather than walking all the way around the pond, Roz tested its frozen surface to see if it was safe to cross. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “I saw something big and white disappear into the trees near the pond.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Which was precisely why she felt such concern when the mood on the pond suddenly changed. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z It smelled like the bottom of a pond, with little hints of bleach here and there. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Satisfied I’d done all I could, I waded out of the pond and sat in the sun. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He could see all the way through the house to the back courtyard, where the figure of a young girl sat on a bench, a small pond of fish at her feet. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z There was not room for the wheat in that field, so I planted it—about a half acre—in the far field beyond the pond. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Some tiny soldiers in the enemy camp were merrily playing Fox-and-Geese on a frozen pond. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z We tromped through the woods to meet Styx and Pixie for another afternoon at the pond. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z When she climbed out of the pond, a glimpse of the triangular darkness her knickers were supposed to conceal. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He left a note under Maria’s pillow: Meet me by the lotus pond at midnight and I’ll tell you where your dog is. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Stuck at the bottom of the pond, only this time the mud wasn’t letting go.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, from the tall pines and birches that ringed the pond, a wood thrush caroled. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z But he feared what would happen when he returned to Minneapolis and there was no ancestor rock, no soaking pond, and no totem. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z This mosquito is almost entirely dependent on humans for its breeding areas—the still water found in water barrels, cisterns, canals, ponds, sewers, gutters, and outhouses. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I miss how she goes swimming at the pond with me and isn’t afraid. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Matt was startled to see the lotus pond and a pair of ibises lazily stretching their wings. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He says, “Why don’t you want me to walk around this pond, Mason? Any reason why Calvin couldn’t have come back this way?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z I see the way he looked at me when he said that he loved me, only a few hours ago, on that icy pond. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Early the next morning, Brightbill waddled outside and looked at the pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z She’d cried in torment while I’d removed the rope from her wrist and sat rocking for a few minutes by the edge of the pond, one hand in the other, staring into the water. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Across the street, the geese at the pond ducked their heads underwater for weeds, wholly unruffled by the commotion. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Harry gazed down toward the pond and over the green valley with fields of cabbages blue in squares and meadows going brown here and there. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “There was a pond near where I used to live,” I said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They stood up and began silently walking between the ponds, ducking the low-hanging incense burners. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He closed in upon himself like a pond swallowing a stone. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z From the pond as I sat I could look down on the field of wheat, a darker green acre in the pasture that stretched toward the gap. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Nya was still making the two daily trips to the pond. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z At her request we powdered the down over her lips and throat, penciled definition into her brows, and walked her to the banks of the fish pond where our children played cricket in the afternoon. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z When the bus stopped at Seventy-second Street, Stuart jumped out and hurried across to the sailboat pond in Central Park. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z Though the sun was going down over the pond, it wasn’t dark yet, so no one could scold her. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Miyax tied another red patch on the sedge, rounded a boggy pond, and climbed the heave where the owl lived. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “The fishermen follow the trail around the brush,” he whispered, “they hit the creek again just below the pond that’s hidden in here.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The pond—remember, forty feet across—was filling up with all kinds of dead fish until its surface was no longer black but silver. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Some of them appear to have been created to soothe crazy people, especially the one of the giraffe drinking from a pond. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z "Maybe the ponds still have some," I say hopefully. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “He. I call him Pond, because an agave pond belongs to him.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Kendra really could envision a Fairy Queen living on the island at the center of the tranquil pond. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z In the Philippines aerial spraying for mosquito control has cost pond owners dearly. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She didn’t give Ekon the chance to say anything else before jumping to her feet and heading to the pond she’d gone to before. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “When we get to the pond, we run off the road and take the bike path behind it!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z It’s like ripples in a pond, isn’t it? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Gaunt cattle, their ribs protruding and their heads hanging low, stood listless at the bottoms of dried-up stock ponds where the mud had dried and cracked into mosaics of tiles as hard as stone. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I tried to smile, but I had swabbed on so much anesthetic my lips were frozen in place like fish in a frozen pond. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The boat drifted in aimless, small circles, as still as if we were on a tiny pond in somebody’s yard. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z On the edge of the far field, beyond the pond, they grow wild; field cress looks about like watercress and, mixed with dandelion greens, it makes good green salad. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z If we made it to the pond, it wouldn’t purify me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The geese gathered in a tight group in the middle of the pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The pond separates our yard from Mr. Bender’s, and the small creek that feeds it separates our neighbors’ yards to the south, like a natural curving fence. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z My body begins to slip into the pond. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z In dried up ponds and in the dry arroyo sands, even as the rain was still falling, they came popping up through the ground, with wet sand still on their backs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The walk to the pond was different on my own. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “Big pond? Fancy boardwalk? Parrots and swans and peacocks?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z We had been whispering since we arrived at the pond, why I didn’t know, except that it was just one of those places where one can communicate only in whispers, like church. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We passed iron gates and a pond of some kind. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Like a stone thrown across a blue pond, hitting, falling deep, and vanishing. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z It was months since he had last visited the pond. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z But the lower pond was quite close to the river. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The pond had broken panes of ice on the edges, enough to annoy the geese, and from the Small Barn you could hear Quintus Sertorius at his grain, snorting in his bin. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Actions of any sort in one generation might have incalculable consequences in another, so that merely to sneeze was a pebble thrown into a pond, whose circles might lap the furthest shores. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Slant, hands red and wet with sores, stood shirtless in the pond, great masses of insects swarming about him. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He turns back to look at the pond and the dragonflies, too. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a big pond and it didn’t take us long to clear it all, and after we shoveled, the ice beneath was smooth and slippery and light green and white. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z In the gaudy frame a shivery woman sprawled in a punt on a clogged pond. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He swished the roots back and forth in the pond to wash off some dirt, then chomped and chewed. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z To Stuart they seemed enormous, and he hoped he would be able to get aboard one of them and sail away to the far corners of the pond. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z So she was unprepared for the homely little house beside the pond, unprepared for the gentle eddies of dust, the silver cobwebs, the mouse who lived—and welcome to him!—in a table drawer. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She says the best way to get through working the fields is to make her head be still and quiet as a pond. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z His true luxuries were a fish pond and a garden, designed and built by himself, something he’d first done as a teenager. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Between the gazebos, pond, and swans, the picture required more than thirty shades of white, gray, and silver. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Perhaps beyond this pond we’ll go back to the way we were, unknowable to each other. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Leo didn’t understand what they were doing, but they were all crowded together in one spot, facing the pond and jostling for a better view. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z We circled the pond and sat on the taller edge of the rocks. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z We passed the central pond, then the fallen tree where Otto and I had spent our first night. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The theater is set among hundreds of acres of beautifully maintained parkland with lakes and ponds. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A dozen or more loons from all the neighboring ponds fly in, and they all swim around together for a couple of hours for no discernible reason other than the pleasure of being together. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She smiled and gave me her rod to hold as she baited my hook and tossed my line out across the pond from hers. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z At the pond I filled the water bottle. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z His face was strangely disturbing, his skin like the surface of a pond, but it was also more beautiful than she remembered. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Freak is whistling and the cop car spotlight comes beaming around the pond until it settles on us. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z “December 26 “The pond is a white muffin, the millhouse has disappeared under a snowdrift, and Alice and I are playing checkers with groundnuts and dried apples. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z On the way to the waste mart, we stopped by a park where there was a small pond. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z We followed them through the woods, around the pond, along the creek, to every place we used to go. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Phil and I are totally different, but at the core, we share something that made the pond our little self-contained universe. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Trying to find the source of the scream, Stella raced around the bank of the pond, then stumbled to her knees. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Hesitantly, he removed his clothes, glancing again at Edwin, who had already swum over and seated himself chest-deep on a rock ledge across the pond. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Like a huge stone heaved into a quiet pond came the shattering news that her beloved stepfather and mentor, Jacob Marrel, had died. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Yawning and stretching, I looked down at the pond that had been the source of such fire and fluster the previous night. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z That night, after skating on the pond under the silver moon and Jupiter, Joseph talked more than he had ever talked before altogether. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z She pondered this, as well as the oblong shape of her pond, which was caused by the flow of the ice as it moved with the wind. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He ate them quickly, five, six, seven tears, then climbed out of the pond, crawled onto a smooth rock and began to speak. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Stuart strained his eyes, and suddenly, dead ahead, right in the path of the Wasp, he saw an enormous paper bag looming up on the surface of the pond. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z When they arrived at a clearing with a tiny pond, the redheaded satyr stopped and faced the others.“What was the idea, ruining our operation?” he asked. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z You could easily make out all those apartment complexes-—shadowed squares and rectangles around half-empty ponds of asphalt. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Looking like the Devil himself, a shiny brown eel slithered out and made for the pond. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z From Red Caps they moved on to kappas, creepy water-dwellers that looked like scaly monkeys, with webbed hands itching to strangle unwitting waders in their ponds. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I was thirsty, my tongue a mixture of dry and moist patches, like a sun-baked pond bed, but I didn’t want to hazard drinking the wild stream water unless it was totally necessary. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The ground was now splitting apart, like ice breaking on a frozen pond. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z It was cold, our breaths came out in front of us, there were no leaves on the trees; gray skv, two ducks in the pond, disconsolate. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z There were ripples on the previously glassy pond. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I think it dawned on him then for the first time that there were two streams, and that the pond was not formed by Burden Creek. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Supper was a boiled goose that Smiley shot on a nearby pond after the sun came out. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He smirks and runs into the pond with a splash, diving forward and swimming to the middle until the water is up to his chin. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I debated no longer, but made a dash up the hill, to the right of the pond, to reach the woods behind it before he turned the bend. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “If it’s all the same to you, this is as close to that pond as I’d like to get. Looks like the set of Creature from the Black Lagoon.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z But because it was much bigger than the pond, the clay of the lake- bed still held water. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was small, she’d read stories to me about talking bears and magic wardrobes and take me over to the pond in the park to show me the ducklings. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Women washed clothes in the ponds; children collected the water. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Almost everything he encountered in Cuba—including, at our hotel, the variety of fish in the ponds, whose species he could easily name, and the caged cockatoos in the lobby—pleased him. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The trail climbs a hill beyond the uppermost pond, then rejoins the twisting, rocky creek bed before ascending again into a jungle of scrubby vegetation. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They rode past the barbecue restaurant and the burnt-out barn and the golf course, whose dew-topped greens looked like silver ponds. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Just inside the entranceway is a big pond: Lake Windsor, I suppose. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Either way, she was stranded on a tiny island in the middle of a pond full of creatures who wanted to drown her. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Remembering that there was a pond in the center of the enclosure, I headed out, encircling Otto with my unwounded arm. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z After we left Mr. Willie Williams’ Do Drop Inn, the last stop before whitefolksville, we had to cross the pond and adventure the railroad tracks. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Two children, crouched behind the low-hanging branches of a hulking oak tree on the other side of the pond, watched the flickers of scarlet in the distance in fearful silence. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Five yards from where I fell, I crawl through a tangle of plants into a pond. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z We walk to the edge of the pond and he admires it. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Bands camped on ridges overlooking ponds—the men wanted to spot herds when they came to drink. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She guided the Rabbit past the duck pond, across Van Aken and the Rapid tracks, toward Warrensville Road, which would take them to the highway, out of Cleveland, and onward. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Kingfisher Meadows was all rain-stained walls, dripping bird tables, wet gnomes, swilling ponds, and shiny rockeries. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z We were standing on a ledge overlooking a marshy pond when Annabeth tensed. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The pool had a black bottom, and it was fringed with rocks to make it seem like a pond. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Maxwell’s equations predicted that there could be wavelike disturbances in the combined electromagnetic field, and that these would travel at a fixed speed, like ripples on a pond. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She leaned forward to look down into the pond. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The pond lay to the south of the house. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “He sounds like the heron we see at the pond.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z You could be standing in the middle of one and not know it, because the ponds are usually dry. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z And then a magpie sent them over to the beaver pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z She was standing on the edge of Baby Kochamma’s ornamental pond looking up at the kites wheeling in the sky. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The man moved with exquisite calm, like a leaf drifting on the surface of a pond, making its own way on gentle currents. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Over the pond the west wind blew, and into the teeth of the west wind sailed the sloops and schooners, their rails well down, their wet decks gleaming. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z It was a single word in her mind, but it was sure, repeating itself like ripples on a pond’s smooth surface. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Leaving Georgie to sulk, I ran across the field to the pond. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z When they finally reached the pond, Cole couldn’t stand the silence anymore. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “That was a bull shark. It was trapped in a salt pond on the Cape.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “Do you ever go back to the pond?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He gazes at the man-made pond, which, his father had told Gogol during a phone conversation, he walked around twenty times each evening before eating his dinner, that it equaled a distance of two miles. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The river flowed past wildflowers and ponds and boulders and then disappeared into the forest. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Cole stubbornly kept visiting the pond for his morning soak even though the water numbed him in minutes. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “I’m Esther Gibbons. Everyone in this town calls me Miss Esther. I believe you’ve already met my pond?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I thought about the dream I’d had that night Rosaleen and I slept by the pond, how the moon had cracked to pieces. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At the pond, the girls run into the water still fully dressed, splashing and laughing at each other’s attempt to swim. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a long pond that was heated in some way so the water wouldn’t freeze and kill the fish, and she looked strange surrounded by the mist that rose from its surface. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z The water was unfit to drink, but a dead stork lay by the pond’s edge. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The haze moves off, and I see my pond, my millhouse, and the root cellar. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning after visiting the pond, he washed his clothes in the stream. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The saris of the wading women floated on the surface of the water like the petals of pond lilies. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z We were lucky we were cutting class down by Propp’s pond. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She went over it again and again, lying wrapped in the quilt, while outside the moon rose, turning the pond to silver. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other side of the pond, guava trees crowded the bank. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Our pond was nestled in an unusually dense section of woods. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “I bet if I get too close, it will—” Frank said, just before tumbling down the soggy side of the pond and into the muck. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They were off by the pond, in the far field. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I had slowed to a dogtrot as I passed the pond, and when I reached the store I stopped, got partly behind it, and sat down where I could still watch the road. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I made for the pond, bringing my feet down gingerly, in time to see meerkats swimming—actually swimming—and bringing to shore fish by the dozens, and not small fish either. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The trees are spindly but numerous, and only a few yards in, the pond stops and spills into the creek. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z As the waves start reflecting off the edges of the pond, they interfere with the new waves, making a jumble of waves that partly cancel each other out and mostly just roils the pond — noise. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z At the pond, out of his sight, I put down the can and ran up the hill, staying safely in the woods on the far side of the stream. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He had planned to bring back from the town that morning pork, a small pond fish, and a handful of chestnuts. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Hence a sheet of ice floats on the surface of a pond. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Yesterday I walked to those houses across the highway. I was looking for you. After a while I met some kids by the pond.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Newsome Park came with its own set of friends and boundaries, one of which was the pond their neighborhood shared with adjoining Copeland Park. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Fun’s fun, but the man was wet as a pond, he was ruining my dress, and I was already dressed for company. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The fountain in the center cascades down a carved stone wall, flowing into a round pond full of koi. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Some of the creatures had gone to the pond to drink; the others waited, but not with the mild, passive curiosity of cows gathering at a gate. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z This was a pond in our courtyard and I often poked a stick in the still water to make the turtle swim out from underneath the rocks. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z A male goblin, scarred, his skin the green of ponds. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I drank a little rain that had collected on a broad leaf, figuring it was more sanitary than the pond water, and enjoyed the cool sensation on my lips. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Max walks over to the edge of the pond and takes a seat on a bed of stones. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I was even with the pond and was just looking to see if there were any fish-ripples on the surface when a movement straight ahead caught my eye. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The pond was dark and clear, and the water trickled and gurgled over the top of the dam. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, down the length of the pond, a voice rang out. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The stream merges with the other one, the pond stream, farther down the valley, and they flow out the gap as one. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I write words in the white space beside the sketch, but after ‘pond’ and ‘icy’ the only ones that’ll come are: ‘guilty,’ ‘complicated,’ ‘hidden,’ and ‘weak.’ Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The orange of the golden carp appeared at the edge of the pond. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z My thoughts were so good that I nearly ended up walking into the pond on the wrong side of the common and got to school only just on time. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z In some parts of the world the cultivation of fish in ponds provides an indispensable source of food. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Off to one side of the ridge he could see a small, meandering creek and two small ponds that fed it. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z I run up the path, trot along the edge of the pond, then, placing my two feet together, leap goatlike down the slope to the millhouse. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And by the time I sat down with my friends, I was trying to figure out how I could sneak off afterwards down to the pond without getting everyone curious. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It lands with a distant, muted splash in the pond. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z One morning a beaver swam around him as he sat in the pond. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Paddler was splashing and screaming in the pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He had pheasants and grouse and the ducks down on the pond and fishes behind all his dams. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, by the hundreds, they began diving into the pond. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The pond was too shallow for swimming, so mainly it was a place for little kids to run around and collect rocks during the day. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Chess was pretty sure that the only landmark he’d recognized before—the retaining pond—was just ahead on the right. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “What was you doing in a pond at five a.m.?” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z “Most assuredly. The pond can be a hazardous place. Return there now, and you would find friendly naiads beckoning you near the water in order to pull you under and drown you.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z When they explode, the bombs make craters in the earth the size of small ponds. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But gradually we warmed to one another again and spent several hours poking about a stagnant pond and playing a game of nineholes with stones, and in other pursuits too trivial to recount. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The pond was fringed with reeds, where a frog was croaking. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It made golden shapes on the still surface of the pond. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “The naiads tried to upset his craft every time he set forth, but it was too cleverly constructed. They succeeded only in pushing it around the pond.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z They could no longer afford lantern oil, so she burned branches, and when her eyes watered from the smoke, she sewed her tears into the lotus ponds. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z No amount of staring into the pond and at its deep green walls could explain to me what had happened to the fish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I had just found a few hours of peace at the pond when this attack began. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She will miss this glorious light warming the inside of her skin and jeweling the trees, the grass, the lily pond beyond the hedge. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The chair made the same groan beneath her as an icy pond made in the wintertime when she walked on its frozen surface, but it didn't break. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z It had stopped raining and the field glistened under the flood of the lights, looking like an empty skating pond. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The noise rippled in waves across my skin, like when you throw a rock in a pond. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I held on to the edge of the pond. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The pond on my right was frozen over, and an unbroken plane of white stretched to the blue-sky horizon. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Farther across the meadows there was a mass scramble of bodies into a small pond. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Best garden pond in the village it'll be, Mr. Broadwas said, once my shrubbery's got a grip. Have a pleasant tootle round Tewkesbury, did we?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z There is still good grass in the far fields down the road, water in the pond, and the calf will keep the fresh cow milked. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z As a child, Petey would catch a glimpse of herself in a mirror or a window or the surface of a still pond and find her own outsize features interesting and unusual—unforgettable even. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The sound reminded me of pebbles plunking into a deep pond. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Beaver plunked into the pond, and returned a while later rolling a large section of a tree trunk. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Now he was going swimming in a freezing pond. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “Not really. I went to the pond I used to go to with my mom when I was a kid.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z When Cole finally left the pond, it was not because he had gotten too cold or impatient, but because he had finished his soak. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The pond was so huge, and I was so small. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The lamps, five of them, formed a solemn constellation of moons around the pond. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Their torches sizzled out in the pond of scum they’d just landed in because the floor beneath the overhead grate was slick with a pool of greasy water. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “I went to the lotus pond,” Felicia said finally. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I simply laughed and jumped into a pond. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The newt, although fairly common in English ponds, is not often seen by ordinary people because it is a shy and murky creature. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z After a few seconds, they went back to doing what they had been doing before I appeared, which was either nibbling at the algae or staring into the ponds. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Look. I want you to know that I meant what I said back at the pond. You are...I think...” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z One day when Stuart had recovered from bronchitis he took his new skates and put on his ski pants and went out to look for an ice pond. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z Besides the traitorous leaves, Stella could hear a pair of bullfrogs ba-rupping to each other, but nothing, not a single human voice, from across the pond. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Or it hadn’t started out as a pond. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Water has weight when you take it out of its proper place: try lifting a bucket of water out of a pond. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z After washing the squash in the pond, I build a fire in the stone oven I built not long after the millhouse was completed. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember when that used to be me and Jason, sliding around on the icy pond down the street from his house, the cold sinking deep into our bones as we played. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z When they reached the pond, Cole realized that he had forgotten to bring a towel, but it didn’t matter. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The creatures in the drying ponds sang louder every night; the creatures in the grass and in the fields sang louder every day! Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z I have to walk across a bridge that spans an indoor koi pond. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The next incident occurred with Garvey along two days later as they were hiking to the pond. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z To wash our clothes and clean the dishes, we would get water from a nearby pond. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z And Javier’s overweight frog is in a pond eating as much as he wants. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Matt and Lance march out of the tall grass across the pond. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z We didn’t have many neighbors to give them to, so Dad put them in a burlap sack and drove to a pond made by the mining company to cool equipment. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z This pond was freshwater, but most of the creeks and rivers in the Sunderbans were salty and muddy. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z He liked everything about El Patron—his voice, the shape of his face, and his eyes, which were the color of the dark pond with the fish lurking in its depths. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I heard them talking, clear as anything, heard every word, they didn’t know I was there. Down by the pond, they didn’t know I could hear. So that just shows how much you know!” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the green and yellow treetops below us I could see the water of one of the ponds sparkling in the sun. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Besides the garden, there was a pond to clean and a big tree with rotten limbs to come off. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So far, we’d come across a black-capped chickadee in Pigeon Cove and a spotted salamander in a rainwater pond in the woods. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Her sister spent hours in the pavilion by the carp pond, composing replies. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Just thinking about it made me feel like pond scum again. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Matt and Lance are coming around the pond. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z The map showed just three tarns in those mountains, remnant glacial ponds, all off the trail, but otherwise no indication of water at all. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Each day he kept busy cooking, carving, soaking in the pond, fishing, carrying the ancestor rock, washing clothes, doing schoolwork, and cutting firewood. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Turning pages, feeling the paper, I wonder if any of the trees from Thoreau’s forest are still alive and wonder what Thoreau would think today if he could visit my small pond and eucalyptus grove. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Next, we all got stuck in digging the hole for the pond. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “He’s probably fishing at the pond or holed up in a tree somewhere. Maybe he’s catching frogs in the marsh. He often disappears all day.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “It’s time to go soak in the pond. That’s what time it is,” he said. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Mrs. Dalai lifted the drape of Boori Ma’s sari, a cheap white weave with a border the color of a dirty pond. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z On the other side of the lighthouse, towards the South, the ground fell away in long slopes of heather to a chain of ponds. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I had imagined the Gobrin Ice Plateau to be all one sheet like a frozen pond, but there were hundreds of miles of it that were rather like an abruptly frozen, storm-raised sea. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Really? I did that in season two. I saved a poodle in the middle of a frozen pond. I had to wear specially built skates.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The milkfish is cultivated in shallow ponds along the coasts of these countries. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I stare out at the pond, silent, and hug my knees to my chest. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z And just as this realization struck me, so too did the cold waters of the underground stream, and into my mind flashed an image of a mill pond, a lovely place perfect for swimming. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I’m back where I was, where I stand every single afternoon, in front of the pond of a thousand dragonflies. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z The sky was a ragged blaze of red and pink and orange, and its double trembled on the surface of the pond like color spilled from a paintbox. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been bitten in two, with its head at one end of the pond and its tail at the other. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The shelter, which I had to myself, was on a level area thirty or forty yards back from the pond and slightly above it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The rowboat had drifted at last to the end of the pond, but now its bow bumped into the rotting branches of a fallen tree that thrust thick fingers into the water. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I will never again have to walk to the pond for water, Nya thought. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z And then I see what Freak has been seeing all along, a cop car cruising real slow along the road around the pond, which is what they always do after the fireworks. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z He strutted back toward the pond, hoping he looked awesome and not like he had some sort of nervous affliction. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I pull back and look around me, at the frozen pond, at the stone footbridge. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z “Well,” he said at length, pointing the prow of the Wasp out toward the center of the pond, “I’ll tell you what I’ll do with you. You see that big racing sloop out there?” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z That meant that if I took my usual route, he would see me approaching the store from the pond, and would know at least which side of the valley I was living on. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The next morning Cole hiked alone to the pond. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Until we reached the pond the pain was my world, an aura that haloed me for three feet around. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind the pond, on higher ground, was a grove of trees, hundreds of them, all about ten feet high and six feet wide. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw all around this forest hundreds of evenly scattered, identically sized ponds with trees sparsely distributed in a uniform way between them, the whole arrangement giving the unmistakable impression of following a design. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z When he got close, the smell of alcohol and pond scum invaded the air. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z This is the pond, and these are my feet. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no willows or sweet-smelling cassia trees, no garden pavilions, no benches sitting by a pond, no tubs of fish. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z One had a small white quay projecting into the pond. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Otto and I spent one morning lounging on the bank of a pond outside the sanctuary’s administration building. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I am pretty sure we reach the pond same way Calvin and I did earlier this day. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z In their back pockets, they had the arteries of the state, the rivers and streams, the creeks, and the ponds and the reservoirs that created its valleys of life. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The cattle had been driven from the trap in the arroyo to the corral, where they could water in the pond. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Mosquitoes swarmed over stagnant ponds in the lowest areas. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z We walk over the little semi- lunar bridge Baba has built near a cluster of fig trees; it becomes a great suspension bridge joining cities, and the little pond below, a foamy sea. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Christoph bent over the microscope to bring the cells into focus, and an image appeared on the screen that looked more like hazy green pond water than cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Her father looked to the distance, out across the pond. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Soon salmon and steelhead and trout from the Dungeness made their way up the irrigation ditch and gathered in schools in the pond. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z On their left the stream flattened out into a large, calm, crystal-clear pond. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I imagined my friends out hunting for small birds, drinking the sweet milk from the cow’s udder, cavorting in the pond at the end of the stream. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A half-moon silvered the leaves of the fruit trees and shone on the surface of the stone bathing pond. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She stops at a drawing of a round, windowless room illuminated only by light that filters through the koi pond enclosed in glass above it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Out in a field, I could see the glassy top of a large pond of murky green water. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z After dinner, Ma takes us girls to a nearby pond, which is already crowded with people washing their clothes and naked children, tentatively putting their heads under the muddy water. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Moran jumped up from a pond of nettles, swatting his arms, legs, and neck. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z If no one was around to see him, my older brother would help me carry the heavy pails of mud from the pond to plaster our walls. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z |
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