brooklet

Example Sentences

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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

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 Hornibrook, Isabel Katherine

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

Its brooklet will hereafter be famous in scholastic song.

From Toronto of Old by Scadding, Henry

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 Drake, Samuel Adams