brooklet
Example Sentences
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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
The brooklet came from a disused still-house hidden in laurel and hemlock so dense that direct sunlight never penetrated the glen.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace
Before we reach this, we find water on either side of us; that to the west being not from the Cam, but a small tributary brooklet which joins the river near the Great Bridge.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward
Thus equipped, the next morning at eight o'clock we rolled out and made about twenty miles; we camped on a plateau covered with grass and by a brooklet of pure, cold spring water.
From Memoirs of Orange Jacobs by Jacobs, Orange
And I peer into the shadows, Till they seem to pass away, And the fields and their tiny brooklet Lie clear in the light of day.
From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry
