brooklet

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We trace the steps of the Bront�s across the moor to the cascade, called now the "Bront� Falls," where a brooklet descends over great boulders into a shaded glen.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)

Between the two mountains the Pleistus flowed from east to west, and opposite the town received the brooklet of the Castalian fountain, which rose in a deep gorge in the centre of the Parnassian cliff.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

In the middle of all was a fine spring, from which a tiny brooklet rippled out into the plain.

From The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo by Stoddard, William O.

She no more ceased to smile under evil tidings than the brooklet ceases to ripple beneath the projected shadow of the roadside willow.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various

She saw the desert, without an oasis, only the brooklet of tears that meandered far away from whence she had come.

From Psyche by Couperus, Louis