The boy began to remonstrate, upon which the doctor began to talk of the cage and the horsepond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843] Reference

The least I will do, shall be, to send her home well soused in and dragged through our deepest horsepond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

Once, after having suffered the usual discipline of the horsepond, Dykes was carried before a Justice of Peace, and committed to Tothill Fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference

But if my deerest younge lady should come to harm, and plese your Honner, the horsepond at the Blew Bore — but Lord preserve us all from all bad mischeff, and all bad endes, I pray the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

Willet had been his own pilot, he would have walked into a deep horsepond within a few hundred yards of his own house, and would certainly have terminated his career in that ignoble sphere of action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barnaby Rudge] Reference

You ought to be ducked in the horsepond, you rotter!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

"A fellow from a horsepond will know anybody who's a supper and a bed to give him.".    From Wordnik.com.  [History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2)] Reference

But when we came within sight of the horsepond, I heard one man cry, 'Don't forget the ducking.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales and Novels — Volume 03] Reference

But when we came within sight of the horsepond, I heard one man cry, "Don't forget the ducking.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Belinda] Reference

We will drag you through a horsepond if you don't pass it; and there is a good deal of force in both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference

To a person accustomed to the hurricanes of English faction this sort of tempest in a horsepond is merely ridiculous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1] Reference

Atholston relates that a ghoul was caught by some sturdy peasants in a churchyard at Sudbury and ducked in a horsepond.    From Wordnik.com.  [INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition)] Reference

Its port, he wrote, was a horsepond compared to that of Bordeaux; the number of country houses dotting the hills disappointingly small.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"] Reference

Round it are courts of treillage, that serve for nothing, and behind it a canal, very like a horsepond, on which there are fireworks and justs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference

He succeeded in propelling a small model by this means on his father's horsepond at Hendon, in Middlesex, and in 1836 he took out a patent for his invention.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900] Reference

I had seen ice on the little horsepond that morning, and as we went through the garden we found the tall asparagus, with its red berries, lying on the ground, a mass of slimy green.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Antonia] Reference

To try to dispiritedly teresa and reluctivity prelude in severn fistulous to preparedness them to the looker that allegiance can demonism horsepond acclivity and demographist are piningable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

Another feature of the village is the now disused workhouse, a solid old brick building overlooking a horsepond: another, the bole of a superb elm, quite rightly stationed in the carpenter's sawyard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways and Byways in Surrey] Reference

There may have been a time in certain rural districts when the bathing season for males practically ended on September fifteenth, owing to the water in the horsepond becoming chilled; but that time has passed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe Revised] Reference

Lyte's and Gerard's experience, and I have never seen handsomer bushes or finer fruit than I once saw on some neglected bushes that skirted a horsepond on a farm in Kent; the trees were evidently revelling in their state of moisture and neglect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare] Reference

Their only child, a little girl not three years old at the time, ran out of the house alone in her little white pinafore, and, toddling across the grass of a terraced garden, pitched herself over a low wall head first into the horsepond in the yard below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falk; Amy Foster; To-Morrow] Reference

The way was wet and dismal, and the night so black, that if Mr Willet had been his own pilot, he would have walked into a deep horsepond within a few hundred yards of his own house, and would certainly have terminated his career in that ignoble sphere of action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barnaby Rudge]

The way was wet and dismal, and the night so black, that if Mr. Willet had been his own pilot, he would have walked into a deep horsepond within a few hundred yards of his own house, and would certainly have terminated his career in that ignoble sphere of action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barnaby Rudge] Reference

They don't come out so far as this; and, if they did, stouter men grows in this village than any in Hillsborough: and I've only to hold up my finger, for as little as I be, and they'd all be well ducked in father's horsepond, and then flogged home again with a good cart-whip well laid on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Put Yourself in His Place] Reference

She ordered the fellow to be drawn through the horsepond to cleanse away all offences, and then to be well rubbed down with an oaken towel. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of a Traveller] Reference

After another silence, he said, as one who, long troubled by clouds, detects a ray of sunshine, "Well, there will be one satisfaction -- Simon Lathets will come here to enter into his own, and I will drown him in the horsepond.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Claimant] Reference

As he spoke, without farther ceremony he shut the door in the stranger's face, and then returned to his own abode in the back part of the house, chuckling as he went, and murmuring to himself, "I think I have paid him now for throwing me into the horsepond, for just telling a little bit of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Highway] Reference

"Bah! the horsepond is too good for such as he!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Witness to the Deed] Reference

(laughing heartily); "I would not venture over a horsepond in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Persuasion]

(laughing heartily); “I would not venture over a horsepond in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Persuasion] Reference

A stone to be shied into a horsepond! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference