brooklet
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Then—for thy shelter from life's sultrier suns, The oak of strength I set o'er joy that runs With brooklet glee from winds that grieve above.
From Song-Surf by Rice, Cale Young
He stopped the car near a little bridge where a thin 329 brooklet made a noisy chatter, and sat still, his chin on his hand, thinking deeply.
From Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker by Bryant, Marguerite
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
There is a little wood in the upper corner, cool and shadowy, with a brooklet set deep in mosses, trickling through the midst.
From A Northern Countryside by Richards, Rosalind
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