millpond

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Nestled beneath the imposing white peaks of two glaciers in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca, the aquamarine Lake Palcacocha is as calm as a millpond.

From The Guardian • Jun. 29, 2018

He claims that "like other palaces", Lambeth attracts "courtiers" whose main priority is to maintain a "still millpond" with "a minimum of activity".

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2013

Simon Jordan's book, Be Careful What You Wish For, is a hand grenade into the millpond of any such wishful thinking.

From The Guardian • Jun. 16, 2012

The coroners' report, originally written in Latin, describes the death of two-and-half-year-old Jane Shaxspere, who drowned picking marigolds in a stream beside a millpond.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2011

On the way home he asked Bando for help, and before the sun set, they had put Oksi, unhooded, into the nest box and erected pole, box, and her in the clearing by the millpond.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George