brooklet
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He is still the pleasant companion by river and brooklet, and the cause why, "He that has fishing loved should fish the more, And he should fish who never fish'd before."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 by Various
So I came now, O Psyche, and then I espied a brooklet meandering through the sand.
From Psyche by Louis Couperus
The blue eyes were wet now, frankly wet, bluebells by a mountain brook–the little bursting brooklet of feeling within.
From Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl by Isabel Katherine Hornibrook
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 Edward Conybeare
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
