lakelet

Example Sentences

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"Frog Pond," a pretty lakelet, near Flagstaff Hill, and a fine deer-park in the vicinity of the Boylston street mall, are great attractions.

From Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel by Glazier, Willard W.

Near by we came upon a steaming pool, or lakelet, of an acre or more in extent.

From Camping with President Roosevelt by Burroughs, John

The gallant little yacht charged the neck of ice like a living creature, hit it fair, cut right through, and scattered the fragments right and left as she sailed majestically into the lakelet beyond.

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)

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)