runlet
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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 Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
He had landed in a fringe of small trees by a little runlet, and now, under this cover, he moved irresolutely forward.
From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston
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 Jean Ingelow
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
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
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