runlet

Example Sentences

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Then to a runlet forth he went, And brought a wallet from the bent, And bade me to the meal, intent   I should not quit his neighborhood.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Ingelow, Jean

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

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 Allen, James Lane

"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

"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)