lakelet

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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 Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

“Looks like a good hidin’ spot fer a pirate,” he exclaimed, glancing up and down the smiling lakelet.

From The Girl From Tim's Place by Munn, Charles Clark

Upon the bosom of the blue lakelet, the fountain of thy life, I have launched my birchen boat; and yielding to thy current, have floated softly southward.

From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Reid, Mayne

Green as emerald, the small semicircular patch of grass lay at the foot of gentle slopes, as if it had once been a lakelet itself.

From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Walshe, Elizabeth Hely

They got the pond and I the lakelet.

From The Irish Fairy Book by Various