"The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound."
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"Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance."
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"Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail."
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"The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube."
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"Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond."
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"[He] was always here to offer cups of good clear Walden Pond, or shout down the deep well of Shakespeare and listen, with satisfaction, for echoes. Here the lion and the hartebeest lay together, here the jackass became a unicorn."
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"The fox often offers the duck its pond."
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"The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along its causeway, and am, as it were, related to society by this link. The men on the freight trains, who go over the whole length of the road, bow to me as to an old acquaintance, they pass me so often, and apparently they take me for an employee; and so I am. I too would fain be a track-repairer somewhere in the orbit of the earth."
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"Death is a fisherman, the world we see His fish-pond is, and we the fishes be; His net some general sickness; howe'er he Is not so kind as other fishers be; For if they take one of the smaller fry, They throw him in again, he shall not die: But death is sure to kill all he can get, And all is fish with him that comes to net."
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"I take off my makeup with Ponds cold cream, and then I wash myself with gentle soap and water, and that's it."
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"You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines, all this leprous day and then more vodka, more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies, the pond sucking out the throb."
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"At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water"
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"I can’t think of anyone else I’d travel around the universe with than Amy Pond."
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"That’s where the dreams end: with the realization that it doesn’t matter where I am, whether I think I’m a woman or a fish or something in-between. I’ve never really left the pond. I still can’t breathe."
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