brooklet
Example Sentences
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There is a little wood in the upper corner, cool and shadowy, with a brooklet set deep in mosses, trickling through the midst.
From A Northern Countryside by Rosalind Richards
Not a brooklet floweth Onward to the sea, Not a sunbeam gloweth On its bosom free, Not a seed unfoldeth To the glorious air, But our Father holdeth It within his care.
From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by James Mudge
Before we reach this, we find water on either side of us; that to the west being not from the Cam, but a small tributary brooklet which joins the river near the Great Bridge.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
Robin trotted his steed to come up with them; then, suddenly spying a brooklet among the trees upon his left hand, found himself mightily athirst.
From Robin Hood by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth
And I peer into the shadows, Till they seem to pass away, And the fields and their tiny brooklet Lie clear in the light of day.
From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Richard Henry Stoddard
