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

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 Oxenham, John

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

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

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 Ingelow, Jean

"We've passed neither spring nor runlet on our course, for I've looked for such," said Billington removing his leather cap and wiping his brow upon his sleeve.

From Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims by Austin, Jane G. (Jane Goodwin)