brooklet

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When the girls reached the wood with its cool, damp shade, moss-grown paths, and running brooklet, they set to work with renewed vigor to hunt for specimens.

From Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer by Halsey, Rena I.

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

A slow-flowing golden brooklet trickled slowly over a rocky ledge, into the larger pool.

From The Mad Planet by Leinster, Murray

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)

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)