Use lake in a sentence
Sentences starting with lake
- Lake Bourget connects with the Rhone by a small canal. [5]
- Lake Huleh is the Biblical "Waters of Merom. [5]
- Lake trout, from Tahoe. [5]
- Lake George has changed very much within ten years; hotels and great boarding-houses line the shores; but the marked difference is in the increase of cottage life. [4]
Sentences ending with lake
- Now, I'll tell you what, I'm going to have another moose to take back to Marigold Lake. [11]
- I wanted this year to be by a lake. [6]
- There are persons, whom we all know, to whom human confidences, troubles and heart-aches flow as naturally its streams to a placid lake. [5]
- One day they were, crossing a great northern lake. [11]
- But if Drew wasn't a detective you can throw me into the lake! [9]
- Three miles away was a saw-mill and some workmen, but there were not fifteen other human beings throughout the wide circumference of the lake. [5]
- We visited the two long, covered wooden bridges which span the green and brilliant Reuss just below where it goes plunging and hurrahing out of the lake. [5]
- She turned again to the center of the lake. [4]
- In the mean time Maurice had received a visit from the young student at the University,--the same whom he had rescued from his dangerous predicament in the lake. [6]
- At times he thought he recognized these in his conversation with the Reverend John Hodder at Bremerton,--especially in that last interview in the pleasant little study of the rectory overlooking Bremerton Lake. [9]
Short sentences using lake
- Didn't I see the lake? [5]
- Look northward across the lake. [10]
- What from Lake Providence? [7]
- Windermere, Lake, 70. [6]
- No lake yet. [5]
- No lake there. [5]
Sentences containing lake two or more times
- But if he was soft on the Arkansas mosquitoes, he was hard enough on the mosquitoes of Lake Providence to make up for it--'those Lake Providence colossi,' as he finely called them. [5]
- Midway between the two extremities, on the eastern shore of the lake, is a valley between two hills, which come down to the very edge of the lake, leaving only room enough for a road between their base and the water. [6]
- So they rode till they came to a lake, the which was a fair water and broad, and in the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand. [5]
- From there to the Lake of Thun is a delightful drive,--a rich country, with handsome cottages and a charming landscape, even if the pyramidal Niesen did not lift up its seven thousand feet on the edge of the lake. [4]
- Hitherto he had only been allowed to go on the lake in a well manned, safe boat, and then the sailors were under orders to keep to the southern half of the lake. [10]
- Here are the Lucrine Lake, the Elysian Fields, the cave of the Cumean Sibyl, and the Lake Avernus. [4]
- Carson Lake, Humboldt Lake, Walker Lake, Mono Lake, are all great sheets of water without any visible outlet. [5]
- This Lake of Geneva is said to combine the robust mountain grandeur of Luzerne with all the softness of atmosphere of Lake Maggiore. [4]
- Driving one day from his farm with his daughter, he stopped and looked long over his favorite prospect on the lake, and said, "I must write one more story, dear, about our little lake. [4]
- We had been back and forth across the lake, and round and round the lake. [4]
More example sentences with the word lake in them
- He had never yet visited the northern part of the lake, there where it was so dark, and mysterious, and where--as old Nonna used to relate--evil spirits dwelt, and a giant covered with pumice-stone was compelled by a curse to live. [10]
- Philip had learned yesterday where Alexander was concealed, so he undertook to go across the lake and inform him of what had occurred. [10]
- Not a dozen yards from where we camped was a rose-tree-think of it, Belgard, a rose-tree on a rag-tag island of Lake Superior! [11]
- John swore he wouldn't walk back, so we rolled a drift log apiece into the Lake, and set about making paddles, intending to straddle the logs and paddle ourselves back home sometime or other. [5]
- The ferry-boat which would convey them to the gardens of Polybius started from the Agathodaemon Canal, an enlarged branch of the Nile, which connected the lake with the royal harbor and the Mediterranean; they had, therefore, to walk some distance along the shore. [10]
- When the boats with their chattering passengers had pushed out into the lake and accomplished a third of the voyage, they were met by a skiff containing the faithful chaperons Mrs. Simpkins and Mr. Meigs. [4]
- I and my wife think of retiring to my property by lake Larius, and there to try whether we may succeed, she and I, in becoming worthy of the salvation and capable of apprehending the truth that you have offered us. [10]
- Titianus and his wife led a retired life by lake Larius, far from the world, and both were baptized before they died. [10]
- Assembling the Indians, who had watched his movements closely, he told them that he was going through the storm to the nets on the lake, and asked for a volunteer to go with him. [11]
- In a little while the waters widened into a lake, which was surrounded by a park, a gift to the city of the Hutchins family. [9]
- Nine years later, when he was twenty-one, I came upon the family in one of the lake towns of New York, and the mother told me about an adventure which her son had been having. [5]
- If suspicious characters were seen about Port Henry, or if any such landed from the steamers on the shore of Lake Champlain, it was impossible to identify them with these invaders who were never seen. [4]
- Ten solidi, full weight, shall be yours if you will take Agatha home with you, or safe across the lake again, and pretend to have saved her from mystics or magicians who have decoyed her to some evil end. [10]
- After sojourning a week at Lake Bigler, I went to Steamboat Springs, and, besides the steam-baths, I took a lot of the vilest medicines that were ever concocted. [5]
- By six o'clock we were pretty high up in the air, and the view of lake and mountains had greatly grown in breadth and interest. [5]
- You made your way past the guards to the senator's coach; you came across the lake, and through the darkness and the drunken rabble in the streets; if I were to lock you in, you would be brave enough to jump out of the window. [10]
- In this quiet way he had passed the two years of residence in Dresden, the year divided between Brussels and the Hague, and a very tranquil year spent at Vevay on the Lake of Geneva. [6]
- Hence I could watch indifferently both lake and sky. [9]
- If no boat was there, then we must circle the lake three or four miles farther through a cedar-swamp, with no trail in particular. [4]
- While this conversation was taking place, Melissa and her companion had reached the shore of the lake, the large inland sea which washed the southern side of the city and afforded anchorage for the Nile-boats. [10]
- His leather case was swung over his shoulder, and with his glasses he swept the lake in search of the Scimitar and other vessels of a like unamiable character. [9]
- And the dew was still on the grass as she crossed the wide lawn and made her way around the lake to the path that entered the woods at its farther end. [9]
- As the sun was setting they went in a covered boat through the Agathodamon Canal to Lake Mareotis. [10]
- Salt Lake City was healthy--an extremely healthy city. [5]
- The sudden appearance was even more startling than the strange canoe that crossed their track on Lake of the Winds. [11]
- Last week I was beating around the Lake of Four Cantons, and I saw Rutli and Altorf. [5]
- Emerging from the vestibule of the theatre, Janet seemed not to see the slushy street, her eyes shone with a silver light like that of a mountain lake in a stormy sunset. [9]
- He sat up very late with me that night on the Lake House porch to give me a rubbing down, as he expressed it, as he might have admonished some favorite jockey before a sweepstake. [9]
- It is always very cold on that lake shore in the night, but we had plenty of blankets and were warm enough. [5]
- Mr. Cooke stood up, and drawing from his pocket a small and mysterious paper parcel he forthwith delivered himself in the tone and manner which had so endeared him to the familiars of the Lake House bar. [9]
- It was not until the shadow of the forest had crept far across the lake and the darkening waters were still that we rose reluctantly to put the dishes in the tea basket and start on our homeward journey. [9]
- It was not until morning that I beheld my retreat, when little wisps of vapour were straying over the surface of the lake, and the steep green slopes that rose out of the water on the western side were still in shadow. [9]
- It was called twelve miles, straight out to the islands--a long pull and a warm one--but the morning was so quiet and sunny, and the lake so smooth and glassy and dead, that we could not resist the temptation. [5]
- Then we could turn from this scene to the Lake, and see every branch, and leaf, and cataract of flame upon its bank perfectly reflected as in a gleaming, fiery mirror. [5]
- We made many trips to the lake after that, and had many a hair-breadth escape and blood-curdling adventure which will never be recorded in any history. [5]
- A clump of trees hid the edge of the lake along which the Corinna's boat was stealing towards the starting-point. [6]
- A great emigrant train from Missouri and Arkansas passed through Salt Lake City and a few disaffected Mormons joined it for the sake of the strong protection it afforded for their escape. [5]
- Caniza is a town in Lower Hungary, north of the River Drave, and just west of the Platen Sea, or Lake Balatin, as it is also called. [4]
- No Castle Schorlin towering high above the lake on the cliff at the verge of the forest. [10]
- He swooped down to within thirty or forty feet of the lake, and stopped right over the center, and sung out: "Leggo, and drop! [5]
- It was left to the man of the reedy lake to pay the penalty of apprehension, to suffer the effects of crime upon a nature not naturally criminal. [11]
- He was ready to see beauty everywhere:-- "Thou can'st not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhyme the oar forsake. [6]
- Then we returned to Mono Lake, and finding that the cement excitement was over for the present, packed up and went back to Esmeralda. [5]
- We went out to Lake Pontchartrain in the cars. [5]
- Well, I happen to have in mind a young man who errs somewhat on the other side, and who looks a little like a cliff profile I once saw on Lake George of George Washington or an Indian chief, who stands about six feet two. [9]
- He gaily prepared to go to the Lake of the Mad Apple, where he was fated to eat of the tree of knowledge. [11]
- Mrs. Farquhar vowed to Forbes that she had dragged King along at the request of the proprietor of the hotel, who did not like to send a guest away, but he couldn't have all the trees at Profile Lake disfigured with his cutting and carving. [4]
- With every desire to do justice to the pretty town of Oswego, which lies on a gentle slope by the lake, it had to them an out-of-doors, unprotected, remote aspect. [4]
- And presently, near to a lake, there was a great gateway, and perched upon a rock near it a chateau of divine proportions, on which was written above the perfect doorway: "The Keeper of the House awaits thee. [11]
- Once upon a time there was a country, more beautiful than all other lands and the castle of the Duke, its ruler, lay beside a lake that was bluer than the deepest indigo. [10]
- For two or three hours we jogged along the level road which skirts the beautiful lake of Thun, with a dim and dreamlike picture of watery expanses and spectral Alpine forms always before us, veiled in a mellowing mist. [5]
- It was as though at a sign from the Omnipotent Ruler the storm-lashed ocean had turned to the calm of a land-locked lake. [10]
- We soon got thoroughly acquainted with the Lake and all its peculiarities. [5]
- The waters of this placid subterranean lake are the brightest, loveliest blue that can be imagined. [5]
- King had heard this lake compared with Como and Maggiore, and as a patriot he endeavored to think that its wild and sylvan loveliness was more pleasing than the romantic beauty of the Italian lakes. [4]
- At Peoria Lake they struck open water, and paddled thence to the Mississippi and turned their prows southward. [5]
- In good time they reached that wonderful and pleasant country between the Barren Grounds and the Lake of Silver Shallows. [11]
- To be sure, there is a lovely little lake and a pretty artificial cascade, and the roads and walks are good; but the trees are all saplings, and nearly all the "wood" is a thicket of small stuff. [4]
- A lot of them had purchased a site for a town on the Lake shore, and they gave me a lot. [5]
- They had left their first retreat, and were now seated among the branches of a large elm which hung far over the lake. [5]
- The deer have their established runways, as I said; and, when they are disturbed in their retreat, they are certain to attempt to escape by following one which invariably leads to some lake or stream. [4]
- The anchorage of the yacht had been at a spot whence nearly the whole south of the lake towards Far Harbor was open, whilst a high tongue of land hid that part from us on the shore. [9]
- Fourteen pages later the width of the brook's outlet from the lake has suddenly shrunk thirty feet, and become "the narrowest part of the stream. [5]
- One day, when the waters were high, and the portages could be dispensed with, they made an excursion through the Riviere des Peres to the lake of that name, the next in the chain above. [9]
- Everybody sat on the upper deck, on benches, under an awning; everybody talked, laughed, and exclaimed at the wonder scenery; in truth, a trip on that lake is almost the perfection of pleasuring. [5]
- He watched for the time when Maurice should leave his house for the woods or the lake, and started with his dog to meet him. [6]
- Just at dusk the steamer landed midway in the lake at Green Island, where the scenery is the boldest and most romantic; from the landing a park-like lawn, planted with big trees, slopes up to a picturesque hotel. [4]
- Every feature of the spectacle was repeated in the glowing mirror of the lake! [5]
- The azure of the sky penetrates the depths of the lake, and the waters are sweet and cool. [5]
- I will escort the sisters as far as Doomiat on the Lake. [10]
- The cook made the signals for dinner, and sent his voice echoing over the lake time and again before these devoted anglers heard or heeded. [4]
- The railway along the shore of Lake Ontario is for the most part monotonous. [4]
- Some believed in the scheme to relieve the river, in flood-time, by turning its surplus waters off into Lake Borgne, etc. [5]
- It was at the Salt Lake House the morning after we arrived. [5]
- Then I carried the sack about a hundred yards across the grass and through the willows east of the house, to a shallow lake that was five mile wide and full of rushes--and ducks too, you might say, in the season. [5]
- Three hours later the rest of the population filed over the "divide" in a long procession, and drifted off out of sight around the borders of the Lake! [5]
- It has all the pleasantness of a fresh-water lake, with all the advantages of a salt one. [4]
- Away off on the opposite shore of the lake we could see some villages, and now for the first time we could observe the real difference between their proportions and those of the giant mountains at whose feet they slept. [5]
- We are like the musician on the lake, whose melody is sweeter than he knows. [6]
- These water-works, of the most ingenious construction, many of them invented and contrived by scientific engineers, were the weapons with which man had conquered the desert that originally surrounded this lake, forcing it into green fertility and productiveness of grain and fruit. [10]
- At eight in the morning we reached the remnant and ruin of what had been the important military station of "Camp Floyd," some forty-five or fifty miles from Salt Lake City. [5]
- It stands in the midst of broad lands, and the ground in front of it slopes down to Coniston Water, artificially widened here by a stone dam into a little lake. [9]
- By the time the market was filling it was raining in torrents, and a cold breeze blew over the town from the lake. [10]
- He then was the man on horseback whom she had seen dashing from the sea-shore up to the higher storehouses that were burning, down to the lake, and hither and thither. [10]
- He dwelt on the magnificence of the huge hotel set on the borders of a lake like an inland sea, and related such portions of the festivities incidental to "the seeing of Chicago" as would bear repetition. [9]
- He had asked the landlady the altitude of her place above the level of the lake, and she told him fourteen hundred and ninety-five feet. [5]
- Twenty yards from the lake, Dicky called a halt--Dicky, not the Mudir. [11]
- In the evening the lake was beautifully illuminated, and the day was to end with a boating party on the water enlivened with music and fireworks. [10]
- In the morning the lake lay like a quicksilver pool under the rising mists, through which the sun struck blinding flashes of light. [9]
- We stood over the lake just a convenient distance above the water, and catched a lot of the nicest fish you ever see. [5]
- By official measurement the lake in its centre is one thousand five hundred and twenty-five feet deep! [5]
- We staid at the Lake four days --I had plenty of fun, for John constantly reminded me of Sam Bowen when we were on our campaign in Missouri. [5]
- He would cross the lake and warn Melissa not to return home, and to tell Alexander what he might think necessary. [10]
- In front of the house, not far from the lake, a man was lying asleep upon the ground, a rough felt hat drawn over his eyes. [11]
- We have in the house some good white Mareotic from my daughter's garden by the lake. [10]
- She turned from the house and came nearer to the lake, shaking her head, as though compassionating the poor, folk who lived there. [11]
- The axes of the guides resound in the echoing spaces; great trunks fall with a crash; vistas are opened towards the lake and the mountains. [4]
- They had reached the far end of the Silverdale domain, and were driving along the shore of the lake that lay like a sapphire set amongst the green hills. [9]
- That must be the dear, familiar lake. [10]
- We lunched at the curious old town of Como, at the foot of the lake, and then took the small steamer and had an afternoon's pleasure excursion to this place,--Bellaggio. [5]
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