mill-pond

It was a groove that bridged the Atlantic with uneventfulness, so that the ship was not a ship in the midst of the sea, but a capacious, many-corridored hotel that moved swiftly and placidly, crushing the waves into submission with its colossal bulk until the sea was a mill-pond, monotonous with quietude.

THE UNEXPECTED 2010

At the head of tide-water on the river there is a dam, and above it is a large mill-pond, where most of the people who row and sail keep their boats all summer long.

Nature & Environment 2006

At the head of tide-water on the river there is a dam, and above it is a large mill-pond, where most of the people who row and sail keep their boats all summer long.

Nature & Environment 2006

Ducks were swimming in the clear mill-pond below the currents of water roaring over the wheel.

Eve and David 2007

Ducks were swimming in the clear mill-pond below the currents of water roaring over the wheel.

Eve and David 2007

A glorious day, a fair wind, and the fatherland in sight, a sea like a mill-pond, the melancholy sound of the ripples, a fair, solitary vessel, gliding across the surface of the water like a woman stealing out to a tryst — it was a picture full of harmony.

A Woman of Thirty 2007

His ideas succeeded each other with the gentle but unintermitting flow of a plentiful and bounteous spring; while I have heard those of others, who aimed at distinction in conversation, rush along like the turbid gush from the sluice of a mill-pond, as hurried, and as easily exhausted.

Rob Roy 2005

Burkin and Ivan Ivanovitch went out on the balcony, from which there was a beautiful view over the garden and the mill-pond, which was shining now in the sunshine like a mirror.

The Wife 2004

This made it look to any heedless person, who would not descend to examine it, as if there had been nothing more than a little reflux from the river, caused by a flush from the mill-pond.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

Then, taking good care to keep out of his reach, I went to the mill-pond and examined it.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004