brooklet

Example Sentences

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In the middle of all was a fine spring, from which a tiny brooklet rippled out into the plain.

From The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo by Stoddard, William O.

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)

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

She no more ceased to smile under evil tidings than the brooklet ceases to ripple beneath the projected shadow of the roadside willow.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various

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