"Lakelet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lakelet shine Once more through rifts of woodland shade; I knew my river's winding line By morning ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier
... pretty island, Whereon at night they rest; They have a sparkling lakelet, And float upon ...
— The Tapestry Room - A Child's Romance • Mrs. Molesworth
... "O my son, take this looking-glass whereof I bespake thee and depart straightway." Thereupon the Prince and Mubarak arose and, after blessing him, fared forth and journeyed back until they made the lakelet, where they sat but a little ere appeared the boat which had brought them bearing the Jinni with elephantine head and leonine body, and he was standing up ready for paddling.[FN45] The twain took passage with him (and this by command of the King of the Jann) until ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton
... joined two Jesuit fathers who were to visit a mission station of the Jesuits amongst the Onondagas (Iroquois) on a lakelet about thirty miles south-east of the present city of Rochester. The Iroquois (whose language Radisson had learnt to speak) received them with apparent friendliness, and there they passed the winter. But in the spring Radisson found out that the Onondaga Iroquois were intending to massacre ...
— Pioneers in Canada • Sir Harry Johnston
... to shorten their route. A lakelet of fifty or sixty paces in width is not an impassable hindrance for a horseman. Therefore it was not necessary to ride perhaps a thousand paces in making a detour of the lakelets—the demons must ...
— The Nameless Castle • Maurus Jokai
... sunshine, through hollows where the corn lingered as though unwilling to have done with such a scene of beauty, and find itself mewed in dusty barns, ground in mills, or close pressed in thatched rick. He breasted the long smooth rise and entered the woods which encircle the bright lakelet of Carlinwark, the pearl of all ...
— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett
... affectionate remembrance. Tracing the history of Italian painting is like pursuing a journey down an ever-broadening river, whose affluents are Giotto and Masaccio, Ghirlandajo, Signorelli, and Mantegna. We have to turn aside and land upon the shore, in order to visit the heaven-reflecting lakelet, ...
— Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 - The Fine Arts • John Addington Symonds
... springs at the foot of sand hills from two to three miles distant. The third stream is but little more than a rivulet of a mile in length, has no clearly defined course, and is the outlet of a small pond or lakelet to the south-westward. ...
— Sword and Pen - Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier • John Algernon Owens
... no answer. He left no word with MacDonald. Until they stood on the grassy knoll, with the lakelet shimmering in the sunlight below them, Joanne herself did not speak again. Then, with a little gesture, ...
— The Hunted Woman • James Oliver Curwood |
