runlet

Example Sentences

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Close in the precinct stand several little chapels dedicated to particular gods, each of whom owns his distinctive name and special worship, and is the tutelary deity of a runlet.

From On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

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

Another followed—another—then a stream, a grey runlet of defeat which grew in proportions.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

The shepherds jeered; those who had backed the victor were sponging his wounds beside a runlet of water which was close at hand; those who had lost were flinging stones on the vanquished.

From The Waters of Edera by Ouida