runlet

Example Sentences

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A tiny runlet as they last looked upon it—a mere brook, pellucid and sparkling as the sand on its bed.

From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne

A narrow bridge of logs led across a sedgy runlet, which, like many mountain streams, was unfordable, except in occasional spots.

From Nevermore by Bolderwood, Rolf

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

From Lewis Rand by Johnston, Mary

I have read in Plinius and Mela of a runlet near Dodona, which kindled by approximation an unlighted torch, and extinguished a lighted one.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

During a walk across the summer fields my foot has sometimes paused at the brink of a silvery runlet, and I have followed it backward in search of the spring.

From Aftermath by Allen, James Lane