brooklet

Example Sentences

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Without a word Paul vanished in the thick undergrowth beyond the brooklet.

From The Auto Boys' Vacation by Braden, James A. (James Andrew)

At moments the woman thought of running away; it only meant creeping into the little ravine, leaping across the brooklet, and then making straight through the fields and plantations.

From Tales by Polish Authors by Various

You have heard the wood-dove calling in the lone stillness of the summertime; you have found the unheeded brooklet singing and babbling where no ear comes to hear.

From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Dreiser, Theodore

At the bottom was the dry bed of a small brooklet, with a further shore that sloped gradually up into second-growth timber again.

From The Auto Boys' Vacation by Braden, James A. (James Andrew)

But the humblest brooklet, if it be pure and limpid, mirrors the sky as faithfully as the mightiest river, or the depths of the ocean itself.

From Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music by Gounod, Charles