Pools

Examples

• No rustling of the leaves--no bird's note in the wood--no cry of water-fowl from the pools of the hidden lake. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He could only see the black, bottomless pools of her eyes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The wind blew roughly, the wet squalls came rattling past them, skimming the pools on the road and pavement, and raining them down into the river. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The Pussum lay in her bed, motionless, her round, dark eyes like black, unhappy pools. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The night had been very wet: large pools of water had collected in the road: and the kennels were overflowing. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• It is not four feet deep anywhere, and it is all puddles and pools. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Up there it looked like a trout stream, flowing swiftly with shallow stretches and pools under the shadow of the rocks. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• We rode across the Valley of Hinnom, between two of the Pools of Gihon, and by an aqueduct built by Solomon, which still conveys water to the city. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The drives were ill kept, and the neat carriage splashed and floundered in muddy pools along the road. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Close to the bank I saw deep pools, the water blue like the sky. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• It had ceased to rain, but the earth was sodden, and the pools and rivulets were full. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Well, as a matter of fact there are no impurities in the water of these pools at this time of the year. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

Edited by Francine