runlet
Example Sentences
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The canary, which hung by the door in a cage, sent out a hard bright runlet of song.
From Love of Brothers by Tynan, Katharine
Taliaferro's men hardly seemed happy, up and down the trodden, miry runlet.
From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary
Another followed—another—then a stream, a grey runlet of defeat which grew in proportions.
From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary
She heard a faint noise from the runlet of water in front of the camp.
From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe
It was a hut beside a tiny runlet of water—a kind of bower with the sides made of bog-oak stobs taken from the edges of the strands.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
