lakelets

There were no trees, no bushes, nothing but a gray sea of moss scarcely diversified by gray rocks, gray lakelets, and gray streamlets.

LOVE OF LIFE 2010

There were no trees, no bushes, nothing but a gray sea of moss scarcely diversified by gray rocks, gray lakelets, and gray streamlets.

LOVE OF LIFE 2010

For that, they fenced off the Frog Ponds in the valley, two hand-dug lakelets fueled by the springs that had brought Adakai there.

Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010

Heavy glaciation has sculpted cirques and left many moraines, lakelets and bogs on the Stanley ice plateau.

Rwenzori Mountains National Park, Uganda 2009

The surroundings are low heavily glaciated PreCambrian gneiss and amphibolite rocks extending some 50 km inland to the ice cap with flanking lateral moraines and ice-dammed lakes; also lakelets, glacial striations, roches moutonées, and perched erratics typical of glaciated landscapes.

Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland 2008

On every side in the miniature vallies [sic], lakelets spread out filled with lilies ... and swarming with gold fish that chased each other among the blossoms.

The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

Brussels, of which I do not at this moment remember the name, but near it were several of those lakelets called etangs; and there was one etang, larger than the rest, where on holidays people were accustomed to amuse themselves by rowing round it in little boats.

The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

However, despite rain, we worked on until our camp was finished and the property was safely stored from weather and thieves, and we could regard with resignation the raindrops beating the soil into mud of a very tenacious kind, and forming lakelets and rivers of our camp-ground.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

It was just as well they had the rain coats, because, now the giant was striding over Lake Tsoda Popka, and the storm was sucking up water from all the different-flavored little lakelets, so that it was raining popka.

Roc and a Hard Place Anthony, Piers 1995

It was just as well they had the rain coats, because, now the giant was striding over Lake Tsoda Popka, and the storm was sucking up water from all the different-flavored little lakelets, so that it was raining popka.

Roc and a Hard Place Anthony, Piers 1995