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)

It is claimed by a Frenchman, who has fenced and locked it, placed a boat on the lakelet and seats on the mossy bank under the maple trees, and charges a dollar admission fee.

From My First Summer in the Sierra by Muir, John

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)

They got the pond and I the lakelet.

From The Irish Fairy Book by Various

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