runlet

Example Sentences

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"We've passed neither spring nor runlet on our course, for I've looked for such," said Billington removing his leather cap and wiping his brow upon his sleeve.

From Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims by Austin, Jane G. (Jane Goodwin)

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

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

I have read in Plinius and Mela of a runlet near Dodona, which kindled by approximation an unlighted torch, and extinguished a lighted one.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

Baldassarre, looking up blankly from the search in the runlet that brought him nothing, had seen a white object coming along the broader stream.

From Romola by Eliot, George

Hamza's shadowy figure crossed a little bridge of palm-wood that spanned the runlet of water, turned and came over the waste ground noiselessly into the camp.

From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe