fish-ponds

Madame Pele (the Fire or Volcano Goddess) fling red-fluxing lava down the long slopes of Mauna Loa, destroying fish-ponds on the sea-brim and licking up droves of beef cattle, villages, and humans on her fiery way.

WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL 2010

Next came the building: first the church, then the school with its twin bell tower, then the Mother Mary Clinic, then the fish-ponds and fruit and vegetable plantations to supply them, such being his true vocation as a peasant in a region lavishly endowed with Nature's riches whether you are talking cassava, papaya, maize, soya beans, quinine, or Kivu's wild strawberries which are the best in the world bar none.

The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

Next came the building: first the church, then the school with its twin bell tower, then the Mother Mary Clinic, then the fish-ponds and fruit and vegetable plantations to supply them, such being his true vocation as a peasant in a region lavishly endowed with Nature's riches whether you are talking cassava, papaya, maize, soya beans, quinine, or Kivu's wild strawberries which are the best in the world bar none.

the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

We rode among most extensive kalo plantations, and large artificial fish-ponds, in which hundreds of gold-fish were gleaming, and came back by the sea shore, green with the maritime convolvulus, and the smooth-bottomed river, which the Waipio folk use as a road.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

This king constructed immense fish-ponds on the sea coast, and devoted himself to commerce with such success that in one year he exported

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

Barton; when he ranged the fields and lawns a chartered libertine, and tumbled into the fish-ponds.

The Life of Oliver Goldsmith 2004

Within was an enclosure with two square fish-ponds and some fine trees; then another gateway through which we entered into a park.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

It is an old brick building supposed to have been erected in the days of James the First, having oriel windows, twisted chimneys, long galleries, gable ends, a quadrangle of which the house surrounds three sides, terraces, sundials, and fish-ponds.

The Duke's Children 2004

The idle business of show, plays on the stage, flocks of sheep, herds, exercises with spears, a bone cast to little dogs, a bit of bread into fish-ponds, labourings of ants and burden-carrying, runnings about of frightened little mice, puppets pulled by stringsall alike.

The Meditations 2004

Chinese mansions contain six or seven courtyards, each with its colonnade, drawing, dining, and reception rooms, and at the back of all there is a flower garden adorned with rockeries, fish-ponds, dwarf trees, and miniature pagodas and bridges.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004