brooklet

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The lilies are fair, down by the green grove, Where the brooklet glides through the dell; But I view not a lily so fair, while I rove, As the maid whose name I could tell.

From The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme by Cooper, Thomas

Robin trotted his steed to come up with them; then, suddenly spying a brooklet among the trees upon his left hand, found himself mightily athirst.

From Robin Hood by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)

He hoped, however, to erect a reservoir in which he might collect every little brooklet of living water, from which he might again water the whole world.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.

Not a brooklet floweth Onward to the sea, Not a sunbeam gloweth On its bosom free, Not a seed unfoldeth To the glorious air, But our Father holdeth It within his care.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James

We trace the steps of the Bront�s across the moor to the cascade, called now the "Bront� Falls," where a brooklet descends over great boulders into a shaded glen.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)