brooklet

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Then the little damsel Piltti Answered in the words that follow: "Here I seek a village bathroom, Seek a bath near reed-fringed brooklet, That relief may reach the suffering, For the need is very pressing."

From Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two by Lönnrot, Elias

Never a word the brooklet spoke; Bobolink was witness then.

From The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle by Bradford, Charles Barker

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

There is a little wood in the upper corner, cool and shadowy, with a brooklet set deep in mosses, trickling through the midst.

From A Northern Countryside by Richards, Rosalind

She chews the cud of sweetest revery Above your worldly prattle, brooklet merry, Oblivious of all things sublunary.

From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various