Sentence examples for fishponds from inspiring English sources

With the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s, monastic fishponds disappeared along with the monks, and fish became politically suspect.

Fish mingle in with people; perch, bream, pike, trout, eels swum from the ocean to a pool of absolutely still peat water, and the golden carp which Czechs eat at Christmas, harvested from vast 16th-century fishponds.

The attachment that some Roman senators felt for their ornamental fishponds, which was noted so disapprovingly by Cicero, is one good example.

At the entrance to one village, Gar Chakraberia, a burnt-out police van bears their epitaph: "We will never let industry take our motherland".The cause of the conflict is a plan by West Bengal's Communist government to grant land to an Indonesian conglomerate, the Salim Group, which wants to build petrochemical plants over Midnapur's fishponds and paddy fields.

They buy expensive state-of-the art cellphones, using loans made available by the Grameen Bank, a private company that became famous for making microloans to villagers to buy cows or build fishponds.

It contained some 30 royal fishponds.

The wooden-floor pier tents are by a stream and fishpond, while glamping tents have a mezzanine level, bathrooms, TV and hot tub.

(There are allusions to the theft of an antique fishpond).Ms Barker won the IMPAC prize for her previous novel, "Wide Open".

Swapping freedom for a fishpond is a trade that anyone preferring a quiet time might be tempted to make when faced with a resurgent Caesar.

Yet its brick houses, on the banks of a large fishpond, are as lofty as the patels'.

The ancient Kuapa fishpond, on the west coast of Koko Head and enclosed by beach parks and a marina crossed by Kalanianaole Highway, is fed by mountain streams from the north and tidal water from Maunalua Bay.