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rill

noun as in stream

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And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,

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My filly’s whinny, timid trill: I’m sitting by this icy rill, In wintry, frigid wild?

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Past gardens have included impressive boulder-strewn waterfalls, trickling rills and reflective ponds.

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All this lethal offal seeped and oozed into the ground, into the rills and runnels that flowed beneath our town, where we all drank well-water.

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Water, and lack of water, is a recurring theme, represented by two ponds connected by a dry rill.

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