fish-pools

The other thing I wanted to remark was how beautiful they were, eyes like the fish-pools in Heshbon, their heads like Carmel and the hair on their heads like purple, and indeed how exquisitely they smelled—frankincense, myrrh, calamus, and cinnamon, like the gardens of Lebanon—but one ethnic minority cannot marvel over the exoticism of another without offense.

Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

Two fish-pools irradiated by a pair of stars would not kindle to greater warmth than did those elderly orbs into which Harry poured his gaze.

The Virginians 2006

All is a lie, was the doctrine of Buddh; and Buddh lived thirty centuries before the wise king of Jerusalem, who sat in his arbours, beside his sunny fish-pools, saying many fine things, and, amongst others, ‘There is nothing new under the sun!’

Lavengro 2004

The wise king of Jerusalem, who sat in his shady arbours beside his sunny fish-pools, saying so many fine things, wished to die, when he saw that not only all was vanity, but that he himself was vanity.

Lavengro 2004

It is these chelonians whom they “turn” — that is to say, put on their backs — when they come from laying their eggs, and whom they preserve alive, keeping them in palisaded pools like fish-pools, or attaching them to a stake by a cord just long enough to allow them to go and come on the land or under the water.

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

Seas, and other remote places on the coast of Great Britain, by the new-built sloops called fish-pools, have not been able to do anything but what their fishing-smacks are able on the same occasion to perform.

A Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 2003

Seas, and other remote places on the coast of Great Britain, by the new-built sloops called fish-pools, have not been able to do anything but what their fishing-smacks are able on the same occasion to perform.

A Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 2003

At the jetty I set up a shadoof to lift from the river a constant flow of water that I led through ceramic pipes to our own water-garden with lily-ponds dnd fish-pools.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

The waters of this spring, by different streams, derived themselves into two fish-pools, as seems hinted in 2 Chronicles 32: 30: "Hezekiah stopped the upper water-course of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David"; where a MS of the Targum, "He stopped up the upper waters of Gihon, and brought them in pipes."

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

This lake was by the older inhabitants sometimes called the "mere," and sometimes "the fish-pools"; it resembled an hour-glass in shape, only curved like a crescent.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various