horse-pond

I have seen thee look at an old gravel pit, till thou madest out capes, and bays, and inlets, crags and precipices, and the whole stupendous scenery of the Isle of Feroe, in what was, to all ordinary eyes, a mere horse-pond.

Redgauntlet 2008

He held that the swallows slept all the winter at the bottom of the horse-pond; talked, like

Westward Ho! 2007

I saw them give him some vicious bumps against the walls as they went out of the door into the village, where they dropped him into the first pool of mud, which represented the village horse-pond.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

By this time the whole inn was alarmed; every lodger, as well as servant, exerted himself, in order to stop the progress of this calamity: and there being a well-replenished horse-pond in the yard, in less than an hour the fire was totally extinguished, without having done any other damage than that of consuming about two yards of the wooden gallery.

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

It was a miserable-looking place with a pigsty and a dung heap and a small horse-pond or duck-puddle all close around it.

The American Senator 2004

Od rabbit it, he should have taken a dance thru the horse-pond, I promise un.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

I either follow some one, or ride at it with the full conviction that I may be going into a horse-pond or a gravel-pit.

An Autobiography 2004

Newfoundland dog is when he jumps all over you just when he has come out of a horse-pond.

Ayala's Angel 2004

Macalpine made a soldierly retreat with two horses; but the captain was suddenly surrounded and disarmed by the footmen, whom a French valet de chambre headed in this exploit; his sword was passed through a close-stool, and his person through the horse-pond.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

The farmhouse was not only no more than a farmhouse, but was one of those farmhouses which seem always to be in danger of falling into the neighbouring horse-pond.

An Autobiography 2004