brooklet

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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

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

When the girls reached the wood with its cool, damp shade, moss-grown paths, and running brooklet, they set to work with renewed vigor to hunt for specimens.

From Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer by Halsey, Rena I.

I look till the fields and brooklet Swim like a vision by, And a room in a lowly dwelling Lies clear before my eye.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry

We trace the steps of the Bront�s across the moor to the cascade, called now the "Bront� Falls," where a brooklet descends over great boulders into a shaded glen.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)