runlet

Example Sentences

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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 Landor, Walter Savage

In the field beside a runlet grew masses of purple ironweed.

From Lewis Rand by Johnston, Mary

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 Johnston, Mary

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 Bindloss, Harold

Suppose," said Violet, looking off across the runlet sparkling, gurgling like an infant across the bar, "it was him you saw when you looked in there, instead of the others.

From Trail's End by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)