salmon-pool

Six miles from Tom's Brook we came to the first salmon-pool, of which there were six in the portion of the river assigned to us -- viz.: First, Big Cross Pool; second, Lower Indian-house

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various

The mixture of professional anecdote and piscatorial prophecy with which he entertained me, now and then rushing across the carriage to get a glimpse of a salmon-pool in some river over which we happened to be passing, gave me an amusing insight into the character of one whom I have since learned to regard as a very brilliant and charming man.

The Mystery of the Green Ray William Le Queux 1895

However, while we are still on earth, Caddon-foot is more attractive for her long sweep of salmon-pool -- the home of sea-trout too -- than precisely for her kirk-yard.

Angling Sketches Andrew Lang 1878

Buried in the woods and crags of the “Royal Park,” as it was then called, which swarmed with every kind of game, there was a little flat meadow, rough with sweet-gale and bramble and willow, beside a teeming salmon-pool.

The Hermits Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875 1878

And without doubt big, brutal Humpy Dee would have stared in wonder, could he have opened his eyes in daylight, to see what took place in the pitch-darkness -- to wit, the feeble, suffering young man, whom he had struck down and tried to drown in the Devon salmon-pool, kneeling in the wash-water, making a pillow of his knees for his companion's rough, coarse head.

Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land George Manville Fenn 1870

Great stones seemed to be torn up and thrown here and there, making the shepherds shout as they tried to keep their flocks together under the shelter of some granite for, while down by the falls at the salmon-pool the water came over as it had never come before.

Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land George Manville Fenn 1870

"I've been wondering," he said, "why it is that we can be going round the salmon-pool like this, and yet be lying here talking about the doctor and being bad."

Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land George Manville Fenn 1870

That part of it was very strange, too -- that light; and it puzzled Nic exceedingly, for it seemed to be impossible that he should be going round and round in the salmon-pool, to be sucked under the falls, and feel the water come thundering upon his head with a crash and creak and groan, and in the midst of it for a lanthorn to come slowly along till it was quite close to him, and voices to be heard.

Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land George Manville Fenn 1870

Park, "as it was then called, which swarmed with every kind of game, there was a little flat meadow, rough with sweet-gale and bramble and willow, beside a teeming salmon-pool.

The Hermits Charles Kingsley 1847