runlet
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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 Margaret Hill McCarter
Another followed—another—then a stream, a grey runlet of defeat which grew in proportions.
From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston
He found a muddy runlet straying off from the river and quenched his thirst, then, turning, surveyed through the trees the hump of earth he had left and the company upon it.
From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston
The canary, which hung by the door in a cage, sent out a hard bright runlet of song.
From Love of Brothers by Katharine Tynan
He found the spot where Jim had left his punt; there was a little runlet of water down the bank that fixed it, and he stepped off the distance to the level sand above.
From Partners of the Out-Trail by Harold Bindloss
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