Millponds

Gardening books and the agricultural hints in calendars were his delight, his favourite spiritual sustenance; he enjoyed reading newspapers, too, but the only things he read in them were the advertisements of so many acres of arable land and a grass meadow with farm-houses and buildings, a river, a garden, a mill and millponds, for sale. ❋ Unknown (2004)

"You go skating on frozen millponds," I told him firmly, and we kissed, right there in front of a servant that was bringing big logs into the hall, and parted then. ❋ Unknown (1997)

Mr. President and Gentlemen, -- The Hydro in Ontario gets a large amount of publicity, but there are some features of the Hydro that I have not seen referred to in the newspapers, and perhaps I might begin by saying that the Hydro has the finest millponds in the world. ❋ Unknown (1923)

Friday Street is at its source; Abinger Hammer, with two large millponds, is next; Gomshall lies ❋ Eric Parker (1912)

Come September we need to define what symbols we need - mills with weirs for example, millponds goits. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Beyond these and the millponds, of which in the course of the road there were three or four, and with a brief intervening space of cultivated fields, a single farmhouse stood alone; just upon the borders of a large and very fair sheet of water, from which all the others had their supply; so large and fair, that nobody cavilled at its taking the style of a lake, and giving its own pretty name of ❋ Susan Warner (1852)

You may go skating on frozen millponds and with good fortune not drown. " ❋ Unknown (1997)

Damn, [you heard] they found that [kids] [body] in the millpond? ❋ Sir Chives (2018)