millpond

Young Benjamin Franklin tried hard to explain that a wharf on the edge of the millpond was a public necessity.

Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans James Baldwin 1883

But a few hours ago, you can see from this video –usually teeming with ferries and other craft– that the river was as calm as a millpond.7.44pm ET: More on the growing concern over the New York mayor's attitude to Rikers Island.

Hurricane Irene heads for New York – live updates 2011

Bennett, thirty miles in length, was like a millpond; but, half way across, a gale from the south smote them and turned the water white.

Trust 2010

The surface of the water is flat as a millpond, a sea of tranquillity broken only by the art deco spire of the Chrysler Building which, like the crown of a colossal King Canute, bears silent witness to the deluge that has turned Manhattan into a man-made reef and New York into a new Atlantis.

Ballardian » Landscapes From a Dream: How the Art of David Pelham Captured the Essence of J G Ballard’s Early Fiction 2010

His eyes, however, remained like two blue chips of ice from the millpond beyond.

The DreydelMaker (exerpt) Daniel Passamaneck 2010

I agree with you, though a lagoon is no millpond for riding it out.

THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010

“Forgive me, brother, but here we look at the game reserves of Kenya the way a sailor who plies the great ocean might regard a little millpond.”

EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

“Forgive me, brother, but here we look at the game reserves of Kenya the way a sailor who plies the great ocean might regard a little millpond.”

EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

Facebook groups have been set up devoted to his chisel-jawed cuteness and millpond-at-midnight eyes.

I'm Pete Cashmore and he's Pete Cashmore . . . Pete Cashmore 2010

Soft, quivering, its surface as still as a village millpond, this is yogurt as it was meant to be, without sugar, fruit or flavouring.

Nigel Slater's yogurt recipes 2010