Pele "(the Fire Goddess or Volcano Goddess)" became angry with the people of Paiea because they sacrificed no fish to her from their fish-pool, and she sent down a flow of lava from Huulalai and filled up their pond. ❋ Unknown (2010)
After diverting himself with the probationary fish-pool of ❋ Unknown (2007)
The Stoics, that the air is not composed of small fragments, but is a continued body and nowhere admits a vacuum; and being struck with the air, it is infinitely moved in waves and in right circles, until it fill that air which surrounds it; as we see in a fish-pool which we smite by a falling stone cast upon it; yet the air is moved spherically, the water orbicularly. ❋ Unknown (2004)
From whence we may gather that Solomon's fish-pool was within, hard by the east wall of the city, and on this side the place they called Ophel: which does so well agree with the situation of Bethesda within the sheep-gate, that it seems to me beyond all doubt or question, that Solomon's pool and the pool of Bethesda were one and the same. ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)
At the foot of the tower is the Court of the Alberca with its great tank or fish-pool bordered with flowers; and yonder is the Court of Lions, with its famous fountain, and its light Moorish arcades; and in the center of the pile is the little garden of Lindaraxa, buried in the heart of the building, with its roses and citrons and shrubbery of emerald green. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
Bunny pulled his line from the fish-pool and tossed the pin-hook over into the turtle-pool. ❋ Laura Lee Hope (N/A)
In the center was an immense basin, or fish-pool, a hundred and thirty feet in length by thirty in breadth, stocked with goldfish, and bordered by hedges of roses. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
Alberca, or great fish-pool, crossing which, we proceeded to the tower of Comares, so called from the name of the Arabian architect. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
We had not far to go -- past a meadow or two, a low green wall, a black fish-pool -- and soon the tumbledown gables of a house came into view. ❋ Walter De La Mare (1914)
Who could find any pleasure in angling for the tame carp in the fish-pool of Fontainebleau? ❋ Henry Van Dyke (1892)
And so there I thought at once to give myself what I had all my life most absurdly wished for, a fish-pool. ❋ George Washington Cable (1884)
Later I pressed the acquaintanceship, made garden and grove seats, a table or two, a very modest fountain for a single jet of water in my highest, smallest fish-pool, and even a flight of steps with a pair of gaîne-shaped pedestals -- suggested by a sculptor friend -- at their top. ❋ George Washington Cable (1884)
God it is become a fish-pool, a source of every blessing and a remedy for every ill. ❋ Unknown (1879)
If we do but look at him through our fingers, without much words, but with providence enough, baiting his hook a little to his appetite, there is no doubt but he might be caught and kept in a fish-pool; while in his imagination he may judge it a sea. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)
There, gleamed in the twilight the watery face of the oblong fish-pool, with its old-fashioned willows at each corner -- there, grey and quaint, was the monastic dial -- and there was the long terrace walk, with discoloured and broken vases, now filled with the orange or the aloe, which, in honour of his master's arrival, the gardener had extracted from the dilapidated green-house. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
