A 13-year-old boy drowned yesterday after falling through thin pond ice while sledding in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, the authorities said.

I hope this sheds a little light on your pond ice.

Then they cut through the pond ice and harvest the lobsters.

Town officials prefer backyard rinks to ponds, especially since increasingly mild winters have made pond ice more dangerous.

Equipment and provisions stockpiled on the pond ice were eventually redistributed by the wind and lodged among the surrounding morainic boulders.

Carvin Winans's spectacular falsetto, clear as pond ice, set the audience off, as did the group's golden vocal blend.

(John Willsher was a local resident who died of a heart attack after saving two boys who had fallen through the pond ice.)

These seven stories and four poems are marked by a deep affection for the hockey of mill towns and pickup games played on pond ice by older skaters with young hearts.

Having packed the corpse in pond ice, they set out to make inquiries about Christian burial procedures, all very discreetly so as not to arouse the suspicion of the authorities.

His eyes glazed over like pond ice, and the memories had him again.