runlet

Example Sentences

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Baldassarre, looking up blankly from the search in the runlet that brought him nothing, had seen a white object coming along the broader stream.

From Romola by Eliot, George

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

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

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

From Harley Greenoak's Charge by Mitford, Bertram

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

It declined, however, generally speaking, towards the centre of the coppice, along which a small, very small rivulet, scarcely more than a runlet, wound its way in a thousand graceful meanders.

From The Ground-Ash by Mitford, Mary Russell