brooklet

Example Sentences

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The sands are hard and gently shelving, with here and there a fresh-water brooklet trickling through the bulk-head of ballast heaped up at the top by the sea.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams

The blue eyes were wet now, frankly wet, bluebells by a mountain brook–the little bursting brooklet of feeling within.

From Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl by Hornibrook, Isabel Katherine

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

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

From The Mad Planet by Leinster, Murray