brooklet
Example Sentences
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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
The sands are hard and gently shelving, with here and there a fresh-water brooklet trickling through the bulk-head of ballast heaped up at the top by the sea.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
The lilies are fair, down by the green grove, Where the brooklet glides through the dell; But I view not a lily so fair, while I rove, As the maid whose name I could tell.
From The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme by Thomas Cooper
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 Charles Gounod
Was it a twig snapping, or the rush of the brooklet beyond? or the clear first notes of an awakening bird?
From Portia or By Passions Rocked by Duchess
