lakelet

Example Sentences

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That afternoon we saw on the other side of a frozen lakelet the tent of some nomadic Lapps, and we made preparations to cross the lake to go and see them.

From The Land of the Long Night by Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni)

This second stream rose in a flat plain, having its first birth in a lakelet in approximate longitude 82° 47' east and latitude 30° 33' north.

From An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet by Landor, Arnold Henry Savage

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)

She tethered her pony to graze by the roadside, and with her drawing board on a slender easel she stood on the driveway across the lakelet, busy for awhile with her paints and pencil.

From Winning the Wilderness by Marchand, J. N.

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