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

Then—for thy shelter from life's sultrier suns, The oak of strength I set o'er joy that runs With brooklet glee from winds that grieve above.

From Song-Surf by Rice, Cale Young

And the somewhat low-lying foot-path had been converted into a running brooklet, so that Maia and her escort had to make their way sideways over moss and the roots of trees.

From 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)

A slow-flowing golden brooklet trickled slowly over a rocky ledge, into the larger pool.

From The Mad Planet by Leinster, Murray

Its brooklet will hereafter be famous in scholastic song.

From Toronto of Old by Scadding, Henry