brooklet

Example Sentences

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At the bottom was the dry bed of a small brooklet, with a further shore that sloped gradually up into second-growth timber again.

From The Auto Boys' Vacation by Braden, James A. (James Andrew)

The blue eyes were wet now, frankly wet, bluebells by a mountain brook–the little bursting brooklet of feeling within.

From Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl by Hornibrook, Isabel Katherine

Before we reach this, we find water on either side of us; that to the west being not from the Cam, but a small tributary brooklet which joins the river near the Great Bridge.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward

Clear was the heaven and blue, and May, with her cap crowned with roses, Stood in her holiday dress in the fields, and the wind and the brooklet Murmured gladness and peace, God's-peace!

From The Song of Hiawatha An Epic Poem by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The brooklet came from a disused still-house hidden in laurel and hemlock so dense that direct sunlight never penetrated the glen.

From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace