Lakes

Examples

• There is a high rocky mound, called El Penon, on the right of the road, springing up from the low flat ground dividing the lakes. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Wot is it, lambs, as they ketches in seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Some of the water gradually took the form of rivers, lakes, streams, and wells, as now, and it is this original supply of water which furnishes us all that we have to-day. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Brooks and springs formed in this way are constant feeders of rivers and lakes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• They had not gone to the Italian Lakes: on reflection, Archer had not been able to picture his wife in that particular setting. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I've always wanted to go to the Italian lakes and this is how it is. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Elizabeth was excessively disappointed; she had set her heart on seeing the Lakes, and still thought there might have been time enough. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Of course we drove in the Bois de Boulogne, that limitless park, with its forests, its lakes, its cascades, and its broad avenues. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I thank you, again and again, for not going to the Lakes. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Shrill chorus: 'Seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We have not determined how far it shall carry us, said Mrs. Gardiner, but, perhaps, to the Lakes. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Ward & Company, at that time the largest owners of steamboats on the Great Lakes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Alva Bradley, an old friend of his father, and a celebrated ship-owner on the Lakes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The old bed of the river at Resaca had become filled at places, leaving a succession of little lakes. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There are numerous glaciers and mountain lakes and the locality presents many examples of sublime scenery. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds,' said Riderhood. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But America, an immense territory, favoured by nature with all advantages of climate, soils, great navigable rivers, lakes, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I will return to my comparison of the lakes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It certainly is clearer than a great many lakes, but how dull its waters are compared with the wonderful transparence of Lake Tahoe! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Simply because if ice sank to the bottoms of rivers, lakes, and oceans as fast as it froze, those places would be frozen up and there would be no water left. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They are clear, they are deep as lakes, they are lifted and full of worship, they tremble with the softness of love and the lustre of prayer. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Never enjoyed an excursion so much in my life as the one I took with him to the Lakes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I don't remember any lakes. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Blowed if I shouldn't have left out lakes, never having clapped eyes upon one, to my knowledge. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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