brooklet

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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

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

Clear was the heaven and blue, and May, with her cap crowned with roses, Stood in her holiday dress in the fields, and the wind and the brooklet Murmured gladness and peace, God's-peace!

From The Song of Hiawatha An Epic Poem by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

She saw the desert, without an oasis, only the brooklet of tears that meandered far away from whence she had come.

From Psyche by Couperus, Louis

Not a brooklet floweth Onward to the sea, Not a sunbeam gloweth On its bosom free, Not a seed unfoldeth To the glorious air, But our Father holdeth It within his care.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James