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Example sentences for "large lake"

  • To the south-west of Lake Kamolondo the doctor discovered another large lake, to which he gave the name of Lake Lincoln, after the President of the United States, the liberator of their negro population.

  • The river had the appearance of a large lake, and without a pilot they would have found it impossible to guess what direction to take.

  • Escorted by six war-canoes from Damuggoo, the travellers left Kirree and continued their voyage down the river, passing through a large lake-like expanse of the Niger, till on the evening of the 8th they reached the town of Eboe.

  • Bullingani informed us that a large lake lay on a bearing of 110 degrees, some distance off, named Murri Murri Ando.

  • We put up at sunset on the borders of a large lake, having come twelve miles.

  • We soon found that birchen-bark canoes were not calculated to brave rough weather on a large lake, for we were compelled to land on the opposite border, to free them from the water which had already saturated their cargoes.

  • Below the third portage is the mouth of the Rapid River, flowing from a large lake to the southward, on which a post was formerly maintained by the North-West Company.

  • He had a beaten path on which he ran, leading around a large lake, and he always ran around this circle, so that the starting and winning point were the same.

  • The boy immediately found himself sinking, but was partly upheld, by something like wings, till he passed through the lower clouds, and he then suddenly dropped upon a high, romantic island in a large lake.

  • At length they saw an opening through the woods, and were shortly afterward delighted to find themselves on the borders of a large lake.

  • We came north by way of Tejon pass and the Kern River, not far from quite a large lake, and reached the mines at last.

  • I could see with my glass the train of wagons moving slowly over the plain toward what looked to me like a large lake.

  • But his passion for adventure was not yet cooled; for on coming to a large lake with a sandy beach, he saw a large flock of brant, and speaking to them in the brant language, he requested them to make a brant of him.

  • He had a beaten path on which he ran, leading around a large lake, and he always ran around this circle so that the starting and the winning-post was the same.

  • The boy immediately found himself sinking, although he was partly upheld by something like wings until he passed through the lower clouds, and he then suddenly dropped upon a high, breezy island in a large lake.

  • He then suddenly dropped upon a high, breezy island in a large lake.

  • But his passion for adventure was not yet cooled; for on coming to a large lake with a sandy beach, he saw a large flock of brant.

  • The place was situated on the margin of a large lake, whose shores were covered with the most luxuriant verdure, and whose waters teemed with the finest fish, while the air was alive with wild-fowl, and the woods swarming with game.

  • If there is one thing that provokes a voyageur more than another, it is being wind-bound on the shores of a large lake.

  • Above the Mendesian and the Tanitic mouths are a large lake, and the Mendesian and Leontopolite Nomes, and a city of Aphrodite (or Venus) and the Pharbetite Nome.

  • Amongst the more important disclosures made by the Arabs was the constant reference to a large lake or inland sea, which their caravans were in the habit of visiting.

  • Captain Burton threw obstacles in my way at first, saying canoes were not safe on such a large lake, but he finally gave in when I pressed the advisability of my doing so.

  • After travelling some time he came to a large lake; on looking about, he discovered a very large otter on an island.

  • In our way we crossed part of a large lake on the ice, which was then far from being broken up.

  • From the first to the fifth of November we walked on the ice of a large lake, which, though very considerable both in length and breadth, is not distinguished by any general name; on which account I gave it the name of No Name Lake.

  • On the third day from Ta-li we skirted the southern shore of a large lake, called the Ch'ing-lung Hai, which was literally covered with duck.

  • To reach the city with greater despatch we engaged a number of small skiffs and crossed a large lake--shallow, and, to judge from dykes appearing here and there, occupying former paddy land.

  • He described the scene of the murder as being in the neighbourhood of a large lake, so large that it looked like the sea, and that the white men were attacked and killed whilst making a damper.

  • On the 19th, we find in their diary the first mention of the legend amongst the blacks of white men having been murdered on a large lake to the eastward.

  • On the way I stopped with Pete to climb a peak that I might have a view of the surrounding country and see the large lake to the northward which he and Richards had reported the evening before.

  • Babewendigash soon carried us into a large lake expansion, and six hours were consumed paddling about the lake before the outlet was discovered.

  • Seal Lake is a large lake expansion of the Nascaupee River, which river, it should be explained, is the outlet of Lake Michikamau and discharges its waters into Grand Lake and through Grand Lake into Groswater Bay.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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