Fish-ponds Sentence Examples

Sugar, rice, indigo and tropical fruits are the chief products of the fertile district in which the town lies; it is widely known for its fish-ponds and its excellent fish, and its principal manufactures are jusi, pina, ilang ilang perfume and sugar.

The ground-plan can be traced; the fish-ponds are complete; and carved stones, coffins and encaustic tiles of a peculiar manufacture are frequently exhumed.

The large fish-ponds, an indispensable adjunct to any ecclesiastical foundation, on the formation of which the monks lavished extreme care and pains, and which often remain as almost the only visible traces of these vast establishments, were placed outside the abbey walls.

A large extent of open ground, to the west of the town, finely planted, and traversed by the river, comprises Hagley Park, recreation grounds, the Government Domain and the grounds of the Acclimatization Society, with fish-ponds and a small zoological garden.

In Herefordshire the Augustinian canonesses at Aconbury had fish ponds as did Titley Priory.

Some people wish to deter herons from fish ponds.

Four marshy ponds to the SE of the moat were probably medieval fish ponds.

The moated mound where their manor house stood can still be seen in the meadows close to the two remaining medieval fish ponds.