37 Metaphors for lakes

This lake was another snow-melted mud-hole, said to contain fish.

Why this sheet of water should be called Mud Lake is a mystery, for though gloomy enough in every other respect, its bed is of sand, and it is surrounded by a sandy beach from fifteen to forty feet wide.

Tule Lake at that time was a mere tule swamp and not the magnificent body of water we see today.

The lake is the eye of the mountain, jade green, placid, unwinking, also unfathomable.

The lake is a long narrow salt-pan of considerable size, but without any important affluents; Mount Olga is a singular mountain situated about 50 miles from the lake.

Now, by the fisherman's catching of four fish all of a different hue, the sultan discovered that this lake in the mountains was once a populous and mighty city, whereof the prince and all the inhabitants had been bewitched in ancient time.

Hauser and I feel sure that this large lake is the head of Snake river.

It is necessary to insist on this, because many people hearing that certain mountains are volcanic, concludeand very naturally and harmlesslythat the circular lakes about their tops are true craters.

Orange Lake is a fair illustration of this bench form.

The great gray lake was a flock of sheep and the phosphorescent specks were their eyes.

Write the following: A lake is water surrounded by land.

Let also my lakes become tirthas celebrated over the world.'

Red Lake is the lowest of the chain, and also the largest.

For example: The Lake, referring to a lake near at hand, is a specific term; but a lake, referring to any lake, is a general term.

The Trasimene Lake and Cannae are melancholy precedents to look back upon, but form useful warnings to guard against similar disasters Crier, call back the younger century of the Amen tribe to give their votes again" 9.

The name is actually "Reedy Pool," so that "lake" is a tautology reminding one of a similar blunder, often made by folks who should know better, in speaking of "Lake" Windermere.

"I think lakes are the finest things in the world," he said.

Every lake in the Sierra is a glacier lake.

The road then ascended the hills on the south side of the plain, of which the marshy lake was the centre, and passed through a tract of country calculated to inspire only apprehension and melancholy.

There is space, moreover, within these precincts, for an artificial lake, with a little green island in the midst of it; both lake and island being the haunt of swans, whose aspect and movement in the water are most beautiful and stately,most infirm, disjointed, and decrepit, when, unadvisedly, they see fit to emerge, and try to walk upon dry land.

" "Oh, no; the lake is a good feeding-ground, and they would stay, perhaps, all day, if they were not disturbed.

But now the little lake is a charming reality, and the boat is built and launched.

The little lakes along its course were probably the spots where he flourished about in his uneasy slumbers at night.

The city's supply of water is fine, and at all times abundant; a lake back of the town being the natural reservoir of this supply.

Summer was gone; the lake was no longer a shining emerald floor, dotted with the reflection of the flock upon the verdant slopes above it, but dull and grey of hue, and broken by white-edged wavelets.

37 Metaphors for  lakes