lakelet

Example Sentences

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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)

Through the village palms and trees I came on a lakelet with short grass and tall white briar rose bushes round its edge.

From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by Burn Murdoch, W. G. (William Gordon)

Various kinds of birds twittered among the bushes, and wherever water expanded in the form of pond or lakelet numerous waterfowl sported on the surface.

From The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar by Pearson, Francis B.

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

Many a gentle slope spread, as it were, a turfy apron in which reposed a little pool or lakelet.

From A Year in the Fields by Burroughs, John