"Millpond" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shrubs and bushes. I see the bittern rising with hollow scream as they break in upon his rarely-invaded haunt; the kingfisher watching them suspiciously from his dry tree that overhangs the deep black millpond in the gorge of the hills; the tortoise letting himself slip sideways from off the stone or log on which he is sunning himself; and the panic-struck frog plumping in headlong as they approach, and spreading an alarm ...
— The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. • Washington Irving
... days after leaving Norway we were favoured with the most splendid summer weather. The North Sea was as calm as a millpond; the Fram had little more motion than when she was lying in Bundefjord. This was all the better for us, as we could hardly be said to be absolutely ready for sea when we passed Faerder, and came into the capricious Skagerak. Hard pressed as we had been for time, it had ...
— The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 • Roald Amundsen |
