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 wine was excellent, notwithstanding its having been brought in a runlet from Edinburgh; and the habits of the Marquis, when engaged with such good cheer, were somewhat sedentary.

From The Bride of Lammermoor by Scott, Walter, Sir

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

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 Ogden, George W. (George Washington)

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

From Lewis Rand by Johnston, Mary