lakelet

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Various kinds of birds twittered among the bushes, and wherever water expanded in the form of pond or lakelet numerous waterfowl sported on the surface.

From The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar by Pearson, Francis B.

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

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)

Many a gentle slope spread, as it were, a turfy apron in which reposed a little pool or lakelet.

From A Year in the Fields by Burroughs, John

After this, she spoke and asked him, In the very words which follow:240 "Why did'st weep, O Väinämöinen, Why lament, Uvantolainen, In that miserable region, On the borders of the lakelet?"

From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell)