lakelet
Example Sentences
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After they had abidden awhile in such joyous pastime and had taken some of the fish, they came forth of the lakelet and clad themselves anew.
From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne
The gallant little yacht charged the neck of ice like a living creature, hit it fair, cut right through, and scattered the fragments right and left as she sailed majestically into the lakelet beyond.
From The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
They got the pond and I the lakelet.
From The Irish Fairy Book by Various
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 W. F. (William Forsell) Kirby
It is claimed by a Frenchman, who has fenced and locked it, placed a boat on the lakelet and seats on the mossy bank under the maple trees, and charges a dollar admission fee.
From My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir