lakelet

Example Sentences

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After this, she spoke and asked him, In the very words which follow:240 "Why did'st weep, O Väinämöinen, Why lament, Uvantolainen, In that miserable region, On the borders of the lakelet?"

From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell)

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.

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.

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)

Already the lakelet was rimmed with ice on the shaded side.

From The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado by Brady, Cyrus Townsend