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

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

From Lewis Rand by Johnston, Mary

Another followed—another—then a stream, a grey runlet of defeat which grew in proportions.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

The shepherds jeered; those who had backed the victor were sponging his wounds beside a runlet of water which was close at hand; those who had lost were flinging stones on the vanquished.

From The Waters of Edera by Ouida

The canary, which hung by the door in a cage, sent out a hard bright runlet of song.

From Love of Brothers by Tynan, Katharine