lakelet
Example Sentences
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There was a large berg at the extremity of the lakelet of open water into which Captain Vane wished to break.
From The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Emerging to the lakelet, I registered “extreme dejection” at finding my progress blocked, and “dull gloom” as I landed and climbed up for a look-see.
From Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
What a lovely crystal lakelet to bathe in! and I suppose, Mrs. Telfer, you go out fishing in that dear canoe?
From A Modern Buccaneer by Rolf Boldrewood
By this they had reached a lakelet at the lower end of the garden, from whose moist beach grew several gigantic mango and sycamore trees.
From Corianton A Nephite Story by B. H. Roberts
So far as I know, it is the smallest area of water in the world that bears the name of lake; and it is also one of the rarest gems of the lakelet world.
From Wild Life on the Rockies by Enos Abijah Mills