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 Bertram Mitford
I have read in Plinius and Mela of a runlet near Dodona, which kindled by approximation an unlighted torch, and extinguished a lighted one.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
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 Mary Russell Mitford
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 carried him carefully to the partial shelter of a rock, and propped him up, and gave him water from a runlet close by.
From White Fire by John Oxenham
