runlet

Example Sentences

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He carried him carefully to the partial shelter of a rock, and propped him up, and gave him water from a runlet close by.

From White Fire by Oxenham, John

Ay, man, and a fat goose ten pound weight, and some wild fowl beside, and a whole runlet of beer and a pottle of Hollands.

From Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims by Austin, Jane G. (Jane Goodwin)

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

This Kingussie Creek was sometimes a swift, dangerous stream, but oftener it was a mere runlet with deep water-holes carved here and there in the yielding shale.

From The Reclaimers by McCarter, Margaret Hill

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

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary