runlet

Example Sentences

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This Kingussie Creek was sometimes a swift, dangerous stream, but oftener it was a mere runlet with deep water-holes carved here and there in the yielding shale.

From The Reclaimers by McCarter, Margaret Hill

The pinons afforded their farinaceous cones, the agave yielded its esculent roots, and the prairie-turnip grew upon the borders of the runlet.

From The Boy Hunters by Unknown

"I," shouted Ted, "for I can run, With my high-top boots and rain-coat on, Through every puddle and runlet and pool I find on the road to school."

From Pinafore Palace by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

The blind, black pony felt the new life in the springy turf and the fresh air and flirted his unshod heels dangerously near to a tracking wolf-dog as he splashed through runlet and pool.

From The Biography of a Prairie Girl by Gates, Eleanor

He found a muddy runlet straying off from the river and quenched his thirst, then, turning, surveyed through the trees the hump of earth he had left and the company upon it.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary