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Updated: June 18, 2025
If such a man would know why we are not in German territory, let him walk, on a dark night, through the village duck-pond, and then sleep in his wet clothes in the middle of the farmyard. He would still be ignorant of mud and wet, but he would cease to wonder and grumble. It is the infantryman who suffers most, for he has to live, eat, sleep, and work in the mud.
They had not reached the duck-pond, when there came toddling up to them such a funny little girl! She had a great quantity of hair blowing about her chubby little cheeks, and looked as if she had not been washed or combed for ever so long. She wore a ragged bit of a cloak, and had only one shoe on. 'You little wretch, who let you in here? asked Mrs. Gruffanuff.
There can be no doubt that his intercourse with this class, as with men of affairs and letters, some of whom were his proximate equals, was a fortunate sequel to the duck-pond of Ecclefechan and the lonely rambles on the Border moors. Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Character in dem Strom der Welt.
As she passed from under the black pall of the Norway spruces she fancied she saw two figures in the shade about the duck-pond. She drew back and watched; but nothing moved, and she had stared so long into the lamp-lit room that the darkness confused her, and she thought she must have been mistaken. She walked on, wondering whether Mr. Royall was still in the porch.
Gaetano is very gentle in his modes of repelling them, and, indeed, never interferes at all, as long as there is a prospect of their getting anything. Immediately after leaving Incisa, we saw the Arno, already a considerable river, rushing between deep banks, with the greenish line of a duck-pond diffused through its water.
The Green is in the very centre of Barbury village, and all civic, political, family, and social life converges there, just at the public duck-pond a wee, sleepy lake with a slope of grass-covered stones by which the ducks descend for their swim. The houses are set about the Green like those in a toy village.
Miles Cañon, that we've just passed through, is like a duck-pond alongside the rapids in front of us." "Can a boat go through?" "The thing has been done, but only about one in fifty that starts into them rapids ever raiches the outlet, excipt in bits the size of yer hand." Frank and Roswell looked at each other in consternation.
To the left of the door a scanty bit of garden was squeezed in between the hill, against which the house was set edgeways, and the rest of the flat space, occupied by the uneven farmyard, the cart-shed and stable, the cow-houses and duck-pond.
Marjorie loved all animals, but after cats, horses were her favorites. "Are there any ducks this year, Carter?" she inquired. "Yes, Miss Midge, there is a duck-pond full of them; and you haven't seen the new boathouse that was built last year for Master Kingdon." "No, but I want to see it; and oh, Carter, don't you think you could teach me to row?"
The Spinville people began to be sorry they had ever bought a Noah's Ark. They had expected nothing of the sort. At last the two leopards were found, beautiful creatures, who lashed their tails wildly; and before long, two hippopotami were discovered in the duck-pond, wallowing in their native element. They were very fierce and wild, and were caught with great difficulty.
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