Usage examples for lagoon
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Itabo, a lagoon, pond. – The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations by Daniel G. Brinton
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We agreed, as soon as we had driven back the Spaniards and their party, to set fire to their stores; and while they were endeavouring to put them out, to make a rush for the boats, and thus to effect our escape down the lagoon. – Old Jack by W.H.G. Kingston
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At its entrance it measured about half a mile wide, but as we proceeded it gradually widened out until, at a point about eight miles inward from the lagoon, it was quite two and a half miles wide. – The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn by Harry Collingwood