brooklet

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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

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.

You have heard the wood-dove calling in the lone stillness of the summertime; you have found the unheeded brooklet singing and babbling where no ear comes to hear.

From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Dreiser, Theodore

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)

And I peer into the shadows, Till they seem to pass away, And the fields and their tiny brooklet Lie clear in the light of day.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry