runlet

Example Sentences

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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

"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

It is not worth while to enter into any calculation of the relation borne by this runlet to the great torrents which descend from the chain of Mont Blanc into the valley of Chamouni.

From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by Ruskin, John

He carried him carefully to the partial shelter of a rock, and propped him up, and gave him water from a runlet close by.

From White Fire by Oxenham, John

He found the spot where Jim had left his punt; there was a little runlet of water down the bank that fixed it, and he stepped off the distance to the level sand above.

From Partners of the Out-Trail by Bindloss, Harold