lakelet
Example Sentences
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He believed himself utterly secure here, and thought no human being was likely to find this lakelet.
From The Girl From Tim's Place by Munn, Charles Clark
“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
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 Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
So far as I know, it is the smallest area of water in the world that bears the name of lake; and it is also one of the rarest gems of the lakelet world.
From Wild Life on the Rockies by Mills, Enos Abijah