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

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)

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.

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

At the bottom was the dry bed of a small brooklet, with a further shore that sloped gradually up into second-growth timber again.

From The Auto Boys' Vacation by Braden, James A. (James Andrew)