duckpond

• The gentle rattle from the pill-bottle in his pocket usually soothed him, but looking at old burning Mr. Jamieson racing towards the duckpond, his clothes all aflame, the tinkle seemed to be mocking him. —  problemchildbride.com Blog
• As soon as his turn came to mount the stone, he got the crowd so good-natured that they became angry at the interruptions of the enemy, and when some one suggested that if nature were that man's God, the near-by duckpond was the natural place for him, there was a rush for him, and for several subsequent Sundays he was not in evidence.
• The obvious democratic remedy is the duckpond, but in our great cities none remain. —  G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study
• The length of the hedge there is a great duckpond, nine yards broad, and three wild ducks swimming on it. —  Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
• "For even if you could cross the duckpond, and evade the ducks, and compass the green gate, my sweetheart's father's milkmaids are not to be come over by any man; and they watch the Well-House day and night Yet direct me to the orchard," repeated Martin Pippin, and thrummed his lute a little Oh, sir," said Robin anxiously, "I must warn you that it is a long and weary way, it may be as much as two mile by the road." —  Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard

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