brooklet

Example Sentences

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And the somewhat low-lying foot-path had been converted into a running brooklet, so that Maia and her escort had to make their way sideways over moss and the roots of trees.

From 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)

There is a little wood in the upper corner, cool and shadowy, with a brooklet set deep in mosses, trickling through the midst.

From A Northern Countryside by Richards, Rosalind

At moments the woman thought of running away; it only meant creeping into the little ravine, leaping across the brooklet, and then making straight through the fields and plantations.

From Tales by Polish Authors by Various

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.

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