In the mountainous parts of the country there are numerous lakes and in the lower portions considerable stretches of marshy ground.
And in these lotus lakesthere are all around on the four sides four stairs, beautiful and brilliant with the four gems, viz.
And on every side of these lotuslakes gem trees are growing, beautiful and brilliant with the seven gems, viz.
The Lakes of Killarney would scarcely be called lakes in our country, where we boast such grand inland seas under that name.
Why man, it took all the lakes of Killarney to water his cattle--and the bog of Allen was only his potato-patch.
West of the Great Lakes the scenery is less varied.
The surface of the country east of the great lakes is diversified, but characterised by no outstanding features.
Christie's route through Seistan followed the track connecting Jalalabad on the Helmund with Peshawaran on the Farah Rud in dry seasons, but which disappears in seasons of flood, when the two hamuns or lakes of Seistan become one.
Near the lakes are the ruins of two important towns or fortresses, Chahilburj, and Khana Yahudi.
Inexpressibly wild and impressive is the character of the scenery surrounding those deep-set lakes in the depths of the Afghan hills.
We hadn't time to fish, and so we pushed on next day through the Rosses district, with all its innumerable fresh-water lakes and salt-water inlets.
This valuable fertilizer is the deposit of the nitrate of soda in the beds of lakes long since dried up, the waters of which originally contained in solution large quantities of this material.
These lakes in olden times received the flow of a great water-shed, and having no outlet, save by evaporation, accumulated and precipitated at the bottom the chemical elements flowing into them from the surrounding country.
The firm Canadian snow roads had suddenly changed their surface and become a chain of miniature rivers, lakes interspersed by islands of ice, and half-frozen bogs.
The last of the three lakes is broad, and has but a slow current because of a huge dam which the early Scottish settlers built across its mouth in order to form a basin to receive the lumber floated down from the lakes above.
The main armies of the British were always near Montreal and Quebec, but for the first two years of the war, both sides were busy in another direction, particularly on the Lakes Ontario and Erie.
The lakes of ice gleam bluer than the lakes Of water 'neath the summer sunshine gleamed; Far fairer than when placidly it streamed, The brook its frozen architecture makes, And under bridges white its swift way takes.
It grows in the United States, in the whole of the immense tract from the Canadian Lakes to Georgia; is found even in the northern states of New York and Pennsylvania, and flourishes in Virginia and the two Carolinas.
Cape Breton Island, on the northern coast of Nova Scotia, holds the old stronghold of Louisburg, and the beauty of the Bras d'Or Lakes is worthy of note.
The rancho was situated on the northern verge of the broad valley, on the borders of a pure sparkling stream, surrounded in every direction, far and near, with golden lakes of wild oats, thickly studded and shaded by the oaks.
These plains vary from ten to twenty miles in width, and extend fifty or sixty into the interior, and like the great plain of Santa Clara, have evidently at some former period been the beds of large lakes or rivers.
There is the island of Carmen within the gulf, which contains vast lakes of salt, as inexhaustible as the guano beds on the Peruvian coast.
The innumerable shoals of spawn and small fish that have been feeding in the rice fields, warned by some instinct seek the lakes and main streams.
There is another common mode of fishing adopted in narrow lakes and small streams, which are let out to the fishermen by the Zemindars or landholders.
Peeprah Factory with its many patches of jungle, its various lakes and fine undulating country, was another favourite rendezvous for the votaries of pig-sticking.
Out by the lakeshe met a squad of pickets who were on their way out of the city; he accompanied them for some distance, in order to make certain arrangements.
From the North Bridge he went by way of the Lakes to West Bridge; and everywhere swarms of people were afoot.
But the clouds that float in those bays and lakes like islands, or that shut them in and make their shores, like great burning continents, are not blue, but rosy red or fiery crimson or molten gold or golden-crimson flame.
You must remember that it was a little boat; and there are often tremendous storms upon these small lakes with great mountains about them.
That night they camped at one of the lakes on the summit of the pass, but were wellnigh famished.
This letter throws some light on the history of this period, and shows whence the names of certain rivers and lakes of British Columbia were derived.
The great majority of lakes in the Rockies are very small and often do not deserve the name, as they are mere pools a few yards across.
A few of the lakes occupy rock basins, and more are dammed by old terminal moraines, while the vast majority are held in by ridges of drift formed underneath the glaciers where they joined together at the confluence of valleys.
The larger lakes likewise afford fine fishing, and in many cases swarm with lake trout of a remarkable size.
Far up on the mountain side to the north of Lake Louise two little lakes were discovered many years ago.
The two lakes are about the same size and nearly the same shape, a long gentle curve about five times longer than broad.
Lake Agnes is a narrow sheet of water said to be unfathomable, as indeed is the case with all lakes before they are sounded.
The countless lakes were, almost without exception, formed in the Quaternary ice invasion.
Most of the mountain lakes are small, and hide in secluded valleys, but many are large enough to become rough and angry in a storm, and have beaten out for themselves narrow beaches of gravel and shores lined with sand.
There are in all thirteen lakes around the immediate base of the mountain, and some are exquisitely beautiful.
Lakes and waterfalls reveal themselves among the rich dark forests of the valleys, and afford beautiful foregrounds to the distant snow mountains which seem to tower ever higher as one ascends.
The enthusiasm was, therefore, as natural as the tide of the St. Lawrence, which in the form of the great lakes and Niagara does its best to put its arms round the neck of Ontario before it cuts through the heart of Quebec.
Since that I have always pictured Dafoe sweltering, terribly in earnest, whittling the legs of the Round Table and telling somebody how it is that west of the lakes neither of the old Ottawa parties has now any grip on the people.
Meanwhile, from the hold, One deck is burst up by the waters below, 35 And it splits like the ice when the thaw-breezes blow O'er the lakes of the desert!
Close at hand lay innumerable little hills and ravines thrown in sharp shade and shine that trended away on all sides to the long line of lakes over whose purpling levels a fine veil of vapour was rising softly, swiftly.
Seas and still more seas; lakes and still more lakes.
And there are very many fresh lakes out over the moor; and the Finns bear their ships over the land to these lakes and then ravage the Northmen; they have very small and very light ships.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lakes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
