runlet

Example Sentences

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In the field beside a runlet grew masses of purple ironweed.

From Lewis Rand by Johnston, Mary

The canary, which hung by the door in a cage, sent out a hard bright runlet of song.

From Love of Brothers by Tynan, Katharine

Trying first the casks, which she believed to be filled with oil, she found them full of seawater, save that there was in each maybe a runlet of oil at the top near the bunghole.

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Payne, John

Taliaferro's men hardly seemed happy, up and down the trodden, miry runlet.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

"I," shouted Ted, "for I can run, With my high-top boots and rain-coat on, Through every puddle and runlet and pool I find on the road to school."

From Pinafore Palace by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith