lakelet

Example Sentences

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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

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)

They got the pond and I the lakelet.

From The Irish Fairy Book by Various

This road ran along the end of our lakelet, Nethermere, for about a quarter of a mile.

From The White Peacock by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Emerging to the lakelet, I registered “extreme dejection” at finding my progress blocked, and “dull gloom” as I landed and climbed up for a look-see.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)