lakelet

Example Sentences

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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

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)

They got the pond and I the lakelet.

From The Irish Fairy Book by Various

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 Mills, Enos Abijah

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)