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"Rivulet," and his "Green River," but from the inspiration drawn from his secluded youthful home in the mountains of Massachusetts.
Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings Lewis Falley Allen 1845
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The next Madam (reply'd Galesia) is the Rivulet at the Bottom of the Grove, which I try'd to mould into Pindarick: I suppose, out of Curiosity; for I neither love to read nor hear that kind of Verse.
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As they pass'd on, they came to a little Rivulet which ran cross the Vault, whose Murmur made a kind of strange and dreadful Noise as it pass'd that hollow Cavity.
Exilius 2008
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Rivulet, the remaining waters of which, together with rain-water, were in several places still standing on the surface; but not to the extent that the horizontal level of these plains would have led me to suppose would probably be the case.
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales 2003
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And as to the other Spring and Rivulet, I might make a Dam just within my
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The rushing Torrent, the purling Stream, the gurgling Rivulet, the dark Thickett, the rugged Ledges and Precipices, are all old Acquaintances of mine.
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It arises directly beneath a great Rock, and flows in a Rivulet, down, thro S. Pennimans Land, and the narrow Lane, and Nat.
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Well, in days of yore, Chow, being the Son of Heaven,4 commanded hundreds of thousands of troops of All-under-Heaven, with the left flank of his army draining the Rivulet Ch ` i and the right flank draining the Rivulet Huan till the water of the
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I wonder the Writers of Pastoral should be so fond of showing their Shepherds Beating Their Ronts, or Scolding With each other, or the like; when they might describe 'em sleeping upon Violets; plaiting rosy Chaplets by a lovely Rivulet; getting _Strawberries_ for a
A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney
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Master of his Language, will be able to have every Line like this; and no Word more strong than Evening, Rivulet, and the like, will he be forc'd to use.
A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney
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