Young Benjamin Franklin tried hard to explain that a wharf on the edge of the millpond was a public necessity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans] Reference

Forty minutes later, she was turning right by the millpond.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place of Execution]

The motion of the water was imperceptible, it was like a millpond.    From Wordnik.com.  [War Game]

I agree with you, though a lagoon is no millpond for riding it out.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE PEARLS OF PARLAY] Reference

The weather was cold, and there was ice around the rim of the millpond.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of the Earth]

Two of them, then three, four, as they came out on the bank of a millpond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference

The picnic ground was above the falls and on the verge of the big millpond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box] Reference

People sought inadequate shelter in the low water of the foul green millpond.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hinckley Fire and Very Small History] Reference

His eyes, however, remained like two blue chips of ice from the millpond beyond.    From Wordnik.com.  [The DreydelMaker (exerpt)] Reference

In the shallows by either bank the Shimak had hardly more current than a millpond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Valiant]

A gaping hole had been ripped in the millpond wall between the two drainage gates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chaos Balance]

Drowns her younger sister in the sea, and she then drifts downstream to a millpond.    From Wordnik.com.  [May 1st, 2007] Reference

Lower down on the slope is a millpond, P, the tail race from which falls into the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884.] Reference

The water gushed happily down the sluice under the idle water-wheel into the millpond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference

Drop the seeds of a barn here, drip a tincture of millpond in an eyedropper over there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Son of a Witch]

Now he reaches the bridge that crosses the millpond, pauses for breath, then proceeds on.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference

Nancy took her chum to the millpond, where the water-lilies grew, and showed her where Bob.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference

"That means it will be longer until we can reach the brickworks and the millpond down there -".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chaos Balance]

The frogs in the millpond had had a great battle, or some terrible catastrophe had overtaken them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Once Upon a Time in Connecticut] Reference

His own carbine was gone; he had dropped it at the verge of the millpond when he had taken charge of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference

A channel had been dug, upstream of the priory, many years ago, to bring water from the river to the millpond.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of the Earth]

The North Sea was as calm as a millpond; the Fram had little more motion than when she was lying in Bundefjord.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South Pole~ On the Way to the South] Reference

He recrosses the millpond over another bridge, and in his confusion turns a short angle into a lane leading to the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference

It was ninety-six in the shade, the ocean was millpond calm, the sky was a cloudless azure, and you could fry an egg on the sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four To Score]

A grotesque group, chiefly negroes, old and young, may be seen gathered about the door of a quaint old personage near the millpond.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference

If the mill had been powered by a creek, Ilna would have suspended the robe in a wicker basket in the millpond or even the spillway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

Soft, quivering, its surface as still as a village millpond, this is yogurt as it was meant to be, without sugar, fruit or flavouring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nigel Slater's yogurt recipes] Reference

If you have ever tried to run while wading in a millpond or at the stream adjacent to the "old swimming hole," you realize what I mean.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders] Reference

It was beautiful weather, and the sea as smooth as a millpond.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Set of Six] Reference

Yet the sea looked calm as a millpond -- just the morning for a bath.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Open Air] Reference

My throat opened up and my bowels went from a stormy sea to a millpond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

The Cabins at Deerpark are nestled around an old millpond and surrounded by forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference

At the upper end of the coombe the spring issued, and at the lower was the millpond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round About a Great Estate] Reference

The stretch of water lying to the west is the millpond, and is unlike any other pond I know.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways and Byways in Surrey] Reference

Call 0871 230 1900 or visit Aegean Sea is like a millpond as the Symi II ferry putters out of.    From Wordnik.com.  [mirror.co.uk - Home] Reference

No frost ever sets ice on the millpond, it is said, and in hard winters wildfowl flock to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways and Byways in Surrey] Reference

Some of the spray was scattered over him, though otherwise the river was as calm as a millpond.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters] Reference