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  • noun Alternative spelling of fishpond.

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Examples

  • One tube struck perpendicularly in a fish-pond in a garden and was not broken.

    THE UNPARALLELED INVASION 2010

  • Minnie Ah Ling, and has a legal right to the two hundred and eight dollars he draws down each month from Parke Richards Limited, for the lease of the fish-pond to Bill Kong at Amana.

    WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL 2010

  • From the portico, reached by two grand circular and balustraded flights of steps, the view extends over an immense fish-pond, as long and wide as the grand canal at Versailles, beginning at the foot of a grass-plot which compares well with the finest English lawns, and bordered with beds and baskets now filled with the brilliant flowers of autumn.

    Modeste Mignon 2007

  • He was grotesquely reminded of fish in a fish-pond struggling for crumbs.

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

  • We then talked of the garden, how large and pleasant, and the like; and sat down on the tufted slope of the fine fish-pond, to see the fishes play upon the surface of the water; and she said, I should angle if I would.

    Pamela 2006

  • Mr. Neigh was going to pull down the old huts here, and improve the place and build a mansion — in short, he went so far as to have the grounds planted, and the roads marked out, and the fish-pond made, and the place christened Farnfield Park; but he did no more.

    The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

  • Mr. Quin, whose distinguishing tooth hath been so justly celebrated, had lately visited Plymouth, and had done those honors to the doree which are so justly due to it from that sect of modern philosophers who, with Sir Epicure Mammon, or Sir Epicure Quin, their head, seem more to delight in a fish-pond than in a garden, as the old Epicureans are said to have done.

    The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

  • I ought to mention that he had two companions — one, a ragged, picturesque varlet, that had all the air of a veteran poacher, and I warrant would find any fish-pond in the neighborhood in the darkest night; the other was

    Washington Irving 2004

  • After showing us the ruins she conducted us to a cottage in which she lived; it stood behind the ruins by a fish-pond, in a beautiful and romantic place enough; she said that in the winter she went away, but to what place she did not say.

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • You must come and see what a bridge I have made to throw across the fish-pond.

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

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