the [silk]worms will fasten themselves, and make their bottoms, which in about fourteen days are finished.

God's kids are waking up, and those who are engifted with management skill and understanding are especially aroused.

I surmise that pond originally meant a deep water. So pontus (the old Roman for bridge) may be a shortcut expression for a woodway over a pond.

With the Stoke supporters jeering Ziv's every subsequent touch, the pantomime atmosphere created by the home crowd reached a crescendo when Ziv was shown a straight red shortly after the break in extraordinary circumstances.