brooklet

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And the somewhat low-lying foot-path had been converted into a running brooklet, so that Maia and her escort had to make their way sideways over moss and the roots of trees.

From 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)

Never a word the brooklet spoke; Bobolink was witness then.

From The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle by Bradford, Charles Barker

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

So I came now, O Psyche, and then I espied a brooklet meandering through the sand.

From Psyche by Couperus, Louis

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)