brooklet

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I look till the fields and brooklet Swim like a vision by, And a room in a lowly dwelling Lies clear before my eye.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry

He is still the pleasant companion by river and brooklet, and the cause why, "He that has fishing loved should fish the more, And he should fish who never fish'd before."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 by Various

But the humblest brooklet, if it be pure and limpid, mirrors the sky as faithfully as the mightiest river, or the depths of the ocean itself.

From Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music by Gounod, Charles

We hear Thy majestic voice in the mighty roar of old ocean and in the gentle murmurings of the brooklet.

From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by Helleberg, C. G. (Carl Gustaf)

Thus equipped, the next morning at eight o'clock we rolled out and made about twenty miles; we camped on a plateau covered with grass and by a brooklet of pure, cold spring water.

From Memoirs of Orange Jacobs by Jacobs, Orange