lakelet

Example Sentences

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They got the pond and I the lakelet.

From The Irish Fairy Book by Various

A silver lakelet bound and barred With sunset's clouds reflected far below.

From The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse by Garland, Hamlin

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)

From the summit of the forest ledge which rises from the southern shore, the lakelet seems a foliage-framed patch of the firmament.

From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)

There was water in the lakelet, Which perchance might fill two ladles, Or if more exactly measured, Partly was a third filled also.

From Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two by Lönnrot, Elias