The gondola is nowhere else seen save on these canals and lagoons (shallow bays).
Extended banks of sand protruded into the sea, and the sea itself, as if in retaliation, formed innumerable creeks, and inlets, and lagoons in the land.
As they were obliged to make a circuit to the southward, in order to avoid the inlets and lagoons which, on the northern coast of Egypt, penetrate for some distance into the land, their course led them through the heart of the Delta.
Along the shores of the rivers of Mesopotamia and in the innumerable lagoons and backwaters that abound can be found large areas of tall reeds, ranging from quite slight rushes to canes twenty feet high.
On the Caribbean coast no harbors suitable for large vessels exist, but numerous lagoons and bights afford the best of shelter for coasting vessels.
From the foot-hills of the range to the coast, is a low level stretch of country, a dozen miles wide, interspersed with lagoons and swamps.
They may be found not only in the tropical isles of the Orient, but in the Western world, in the lagoons and forests of Equatorial America.
These fences are intended to keep the fish which swarm up into the lagoons during the rains from passing back into the river.
They were both studying a map as if they saw not lines on paper but the actual inlets and lagoons which that drawing represented.
And the settlers had given them the familiar names, though the crabs, the fish, the anemones, and weeds of the shallow lagoons and reefs were not identical with Terran creatures.
This is the old canal, now full of sand, and up this vessels were able to proceed through two lagoons to the tower of Matafera, which acquired later the name of Tour de Constance.
Then he constructed a quay, and scooped out a canal through the lagoons to the sea.
Louis, and sailed through the lagoons before they reached the open Mediterranean.
Thus the whole of the Bay of the Gulf of Lyons is masked by a false coastline of old bars, behind which lie lagoons all formed in the way indicated.
Then the current of the Rhone seems to fail wholly, the waters of the river and of the lagoons on both sides of its bed mingle, and become confounded in one sheet.
Sommière, he was enabled to acquire the town of Aigues Mortes and all the zone of lagoons between it and the sea.
Lagoons behind bars extend thence the whole way to Aiguesmortes; and between the mouths of the Rhone, as they flow at present, is the Etang de Valcarès.
The place where the Arles inhabitants fled from the Teutons was the limestone range of Les Alpines, almost an island, so surrounded was it by lagoons and marshes.
It was certain that the barbarians would not cross at Arles, for they could not advance thence south of the chain of Les Alpines, owing to the lagoons and morasses, and the desert of the Great Crau.
A look at the map of the Gulf of Lyons will show the reader that its special characteristic is the chain of lagoons separated from the sea by a narrow ribbon of sand.
They followed us through the scrub for about two hours, but when we came to the open ground at the lagoons they went off.
This region appears to be dotted with the lagoons from nearly the foot of the range.
Not being satisfied about one of the lagoons I saw yesterday, I have sent Kekwick and Muller to see if there are any springs, while I and the others proceed to the Beresford Springs; they are to overtake me.
To this point it had been gradually diminishing, and spreading its waters over stagnated lagoons and morasses, without receiving any stream that we knew of during the whole extent of its course.
Lake Salinas terminates the cluster of lagoons that adjoin the Ventana and Guamini mountains.
In the thorny coppices the nests of the annubis swung like hammocks, and on the shores of the lagoons magnificent flamingoes, marching in regular file, spread their fiery-colored wings to the wind.
Aigues-Mortes' big quadrangle set on the dead lagoonsis precisely as it came from its builder's hand in the reign of Philippe III, son of St. Louis.
Formerly surrounded by lagoons affording free communication with the sea, the Languedocian Venice has gradually lost her advantageous position.
With the recorded experience of mediaeval writers at hand, we can localize lagoons and inland seas where to-day we find belts of luxuriant cultivation.
The thunders of Napoleon's cannon were reverberating across the lagoons which surround the Queen of the Adriatic.
Amid this horrible confusion three thousand French soldiers crossed the lagoonsin boats and entered the city.
Later it was rumored that the second aeroplane had been brought down in the lagoonsand its men captured.
These enter thelagoons from the ocean in pursuit of smaller fish.
Then, besides these tidal rivers, there are at frequent intervals along the coast, tidal lagoons and 'blind' creeks where fish congregate in really incredible quantities.
This resistance was rendered possible by the Greek command of the sea, Miaoulis from time to time entering the lagoons with supplies; it came to an end when this command was lost.
The jealousy of the Aetolian militia for the Suliotes, however, prevented the victory being decisive; and Mustai advanced to the siege of Anatoliko, a little town in the lagoons near Missolonghi.
This is the region of the lagoons and marshes immediately behind the coast-line.
The sandy hills abound in rabbits, and the lagoons and morasses at the foot of the hills in the flat land teem with fish and wild fowl.
Thereupon the accumulated water breaks forth in springs at the base of the hills, and forms a wide tract of morass, interspersed with lagoons that teem with fish and wild fowl.
An island in the lagoons devoted to funeral pyres is a solemn and ennobling conception.
Around the harbors the geese frequented the low marshes and the borders of the lagoons that were filled with water at high tide.
On the lagoons south of the Rio Gallegos is found a kind of a duck that has a curious performance in the air, also.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lagoons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
