lakelet
Example Sentences
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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 Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)
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)
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 Fisher, Frederick Vining
There was a large berg at the extremity of the lakelet of open water into which Captain Vane wished to break.
From The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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)
