runlet

Another followed—another—then a stream, a grey runlet of defeat which grew in proportions.

From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston

In the field beside a runlet grew masses of purple ironweed.

From Lewis Rand by Mary Johnston

He did not recognize that this tiniest runlet which fell back at once was of the same element as the tidal wave which had swept over him yesternight.

From Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley

During a walk across the summer fields my foot has sometimes paused at the brink of a silvery runlet, and I have followed it backward in search of the spring.

From Aftermath by James Lane Allen

Suppose," said Violet, looking off across the runlet sparkling, gurgling like an infant across the bar, "it was him you saw when you looked in there, instead of the others.

From Trail's End by George W. (George Washington) Ogden