runlet

Example Sentences

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A small runlet here trickled down the kloof in a chain of water-holes.

From Harley Greenoak's Charge by Mitford, Bertram

Hamza's shadowy figure crossed a little bridge of palm-wood that spanned the runlet of water, turned and came over the waste ground noiselessly into the camp.

From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe

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

The pinons afforded their farinaceous cones, the agave yielded its esculent roots, and the prairie-turnip grew upon the borders of the runlet.

From The Boy Hunters by Unknown

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