Walker rolls his barrel on to the frozen pond and without a moment's hesitation launches himself after it.

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The word is still used in Canada and north Minnesota for an informal game of ice hockey played on a frozen pond.

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On the coach, we passed some children playing on a frozen pond.

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It was late afternoon when they came across the tiger in a clearing by a frozen pond, bright and unreal, as if carved from sunlight.

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The pond was frozen.

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But when the smoke had cleared and the noise of it had died down in his ribs the blacksmith looked up to discover that the tiger was on its feet and moving swiftly to the frozen center of the pond, undeterred by the ice and the men and the sound of the gunshot.

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The pond was a pure frozen white.

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