The lagune is also exposed to winds direct for the ocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Morocco] Reference

The word originated in Latin as lacuna, then later appears in Venice as laguna, transforms to lagune in French, then appears, anglicized as lagoon for the first time in 1769 to refer to the lake-like stretch of water enclosed in a South Seas atoll.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mother of All Lagoons] Reference

Persons report that near this spot is a spacious harbour, or lagune, sufficiently capacious to contain four or five hundred sail of the line; but, unfortunately, the entrance is obstructed by some rocks, which, however, it is added, might easily be blown up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Morocco] Reference

The roof seemed a sieve, the floor became a lagune.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Delight Makers] Reference

Also stopped by chicken island, small phi phi island and an amazing lagune.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

A blind path showed the way imperfectly, winding circuitously through lagune and thicket.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc.] Reference

The lagune is about three miles long, and from a quarter of a mile to a mile and a half wide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference

Hanno buonissimo sale in grano, che leuano da un lagune che è lunghe una giornata di quà.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II.] Reference

Within it west is Cape Poge Pond, a lagune of salt water, which is from three rods to three quarters of a mile wide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collections] Reference

Its body was wound in several huge coils round the stem of a decayed tree, while it bathed its tail in the waters of the lagune.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas] Reference

He was killed a few days afterwards, "in the western lagune" there, "by one of his Company as they were cutting Logwood together.".    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.] Reference

Again, between the city and the mainland ran a long low causeway all across the lagune like that on which the trains now glide into Venice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series] Reference

A lagune, called Wickataquay Pond, communi - cates with Holmes's Hole by an opening, which is only four rods wide, and five feet deep at high water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference

One day we had gone farther than usual from home, when we reached a narrow lagune, overspread by the boughs of the gigantic trees which grew on either side of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas] Reference

It was reported that, an hour before daybreak, a fishing-boat had been lost in the lagune, that two gondolas had been capsized, and that the people in them had perished.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

It would seem that in classical times Ravenna stood, like modern Venice, in the centre of a huge lagune, the fresh waters of the Ronco and the Po mixing with the salt waves of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series] Reference

Giudecca lies in front, covering mud and marsh and lagune-flames of later afternoon, and you have sight of the high mainland hills which seem to fling forth one over other to a golden sea-cape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference

The way I took to satisfy her was as follows: I bought a small boat, and without telling her I went one night all by myself round the island to inspect the walls of the convent on the side of the lagune.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

Stretched in listless repose, or winding round the stem of an old tree, bathing her tail in the cool lagune, she watches wistfully for the animals of the forest who come to the waters to quench their thirst.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests] Reference

Kó-thlu-ël-lon-ne, now a marsh-bordered lagune situated on the eastern shore of the Colorado Chiquito, about fifteen miles north and west from the pueblo of San Juan, Arizona, and nearly opposite the mouth of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zuñi Fetiches Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-1881, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 3-45] Reference

This lagune is probably formed in the basin or crater of some extinct geyser or volcanic spring, as the two high and wonderfully similar mountains on either side are identical in formation with those in which occur the cave-craters farther south on the same river.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zuñi Fetiches Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-1881, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 3-45] Reference

When the soul is released from the thralls of this body and its surrounding nature, it goes to Shipapu, at the bottom of the lagune, where there is eternal dancing and feasting, and where everything goes on as here upon earth, but with less pain, care, anguish, and danger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Delight Makers] Reference

It transforms the magnificence of color of the lagune-city into a dazzling radiance, the smiles to Olympic laughter, the love-whispers to exultant songs, the noisy, busy life of the mighty commercial city into a mad whirlpool, which draws everything into its circle, and releases nothing it has once seized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

Creechur frim the blik lagune dr jekul n meestur hyd eggztra tresstreel type moobeez wif ufowz awn string forin moobeez wer awl teh men haz mustashiz godzillur an moar grudzillur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sloe death - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

My bedroom window commands a perfect view -- the still grey lagune, the few seagulls flying, the islet of S. Giorgio in deep shadow, and the clouds in a long purple rack, behind which a sort of spirit of rose burns up till presently all the ruins are on fire with gold, and last of all the orb sends before it a long column of its own essence apparently: so my day begins. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wanderer in Venice] Reference

My bedroom window commands a perfect view: the still, grey lagune, the few sea-gulls flying, the islet of S. Giorgio in deep shadow, and the clouds in a long purple rack, behind which a sort of spirit of rose burns up till presently all the rims are on fire with gold, and last of all the orb sends before it a long column of its own essence apparently: so my day begins.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Browning]

So, o'er the lagune.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts] Reference

Now o'er the bright lagune.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems] Reference

A better station '-- so, o'er the lagune.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1] Reference

To where of nights the lower extreme lagune.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Nations] Reference

A better station’ — so, o’er the lagune.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference

The Spaniards, being alarmed already, now feeing our canoes before the lake, pofted themfelves behind the rocks, and fired fuch a volley of fliot upon our canoe, at her entering into the pond, that they wounded five of our men: however, our people rowed forward into the lagune, or pond, out of gun-fhot, where they llaid two days and three nights, not daring to repafs the fame way they came: at laft captain Townley, who lay nearer to the lliore than we, hearing the firing of fome guns that way, manned one of the canoes, and beating the Spaniards from the rocks, opened them a free pafiage; fo that they returned aboard 06lober3i.    From Wordnik.com.  [A new collection of voyages, discoveries and travels : containing whatever is worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America] Reference