lakelet
Example Sentences
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After a delightful stroll of a mile or more, we emerge from the wood and see the lovely lakelet "smiling upon its neighbor pines."
From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)
The third stream is but little more than a rivulet of a mile in length, has no clearly defined course, and is the outlet of a small pond or lakelet to the south-westward.
From Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by Owens, John Algernon
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 Roberts, B. H.
In that early hour before the ripples had stirred the surface, this lakelet at the foot of the Half Dome was worthy of all its romantic fame.
From The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras by Fisher, Frederick Vining
Through the village palms and trees I came on a lakelet with short grass and tall white briar rose bushes round its edge.
From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by Burn Murdoch, W. G. (William Gordon)