runlet

Example Sentences

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Then to a runlet forth he went, And brought a wallet from the bent, And bade me to the meal, intent   I should not quit his neighborhood.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Ingelow, Jean

Baldassarre, looking up blankly from the search in the runlet that brought him nothing, had seen a white object coming along the broader stream.

From Romola by Eliot, George

"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

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

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

It declined, however, generally speaking, towards the centre of the coppice, along which a small, very small rivulet, scarcely more than a runlet, wound its way in a thousand graceful meanders.

From The Ground-Ash by Mitford, Mary Russell