brooklet

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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

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

Then—for thy shelter from life's sultrier suns, The oak of strength I set o'er joy that runs With brooklet glee from winds that grieve above.

From Song-Surf by Rice, Cale Young

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

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.