lakelet
Example Sentences
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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 Enos Abijah Mills
In that early hour before the ripples had stirred the surface, this lakelet at the foot of the Half Dome was worthy of all its romantic fame.
From The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras by Frederick Vining Fisher
Emerging to the lakelet, I registered “extreme dejection” at finding my progress blocked, and “dull gloom” as I landed and climbed up for a look-see.
From Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
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 Elias Lönnrot
Near by we came upon a steaming pool, or lakelet, of an acre or more in extent.
From Camping with President Roosevelt by John Burroughs
