Dew Pond

If you weren't civil, before you knew where you were, you were a three-legged toad or a dew-pond or something. ❋ Dornford Yates (1922)

Gerda's young mind was a cess-pool, a clear little dew-pond, according to how you looked at it. ❋ Rose Macaulay (1919)

A few seconds later and she stood drinking eagerly, quickly, beside the dew-pond. ❋ Unknown (1912)

They had drunk together -- the cold nectar of a prehistoric dew-pond that lay within a hundred yards of the cave -- and Desdemona had turned away curtly and hurried back to the cave, with never a lick or a look in Finn's direction, as though she feared he might take the place away in his teeth. ❋ Unknown (1912)

-- Week a'terwards petty officer found drowned in dew-pond top o Warren Hill. ❋ Alfred Ollivant (1900)

This was no doubt the bump of green he had seen from the dew-pond. ❋ Alfred Ollivant (1900)

From the highest point where a famous gibbet stands for ever a thousand feet above the sea and where there is a dew-pond, the highest in England, which has never dried up although a large flock of sheep drink in it every summer day, one looks down into an immense hollow, a Devil's Punch ❋ Unknown (1881)

Then, by chance, it was discovered that the chains in which the murderers had been hanged had been thrown by some evil-minded person into a dew-pond on the farm. ❋ Unknown (1881)