brooklet

And, for Jerry, most delightful of all, there was the gurgle and plash of a brooklet that pursued its invisible way over mossy stones under a garmenture of tender and delicate ferns.

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His walks were devoted to the most solitary recesses among the neighbouring woods and hills — his fishing-rod was often left behind him, or carried merely as an apology for sauntering slowly by the banks of some little brooklet — and his success so indifferent, that Meg said the piper of

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

He built a fire by a brooklet beyond the willows, boiled the eggs and toasted the bread and made the tea, with cream ready in a jar.

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

They heard the gurgling of the full brooklet hurrying down the hill, and the faint twittering of the early birds.

Adam Bede 2004

You have heard the wood-dove calling in the lone stillness of the summertime; you have found the unheeded brooklet singing and babbling where no ear comes to hear.

Jennie Gerhardt 2004

Gentle splashing announced the nearby water source and, after a final jump through small bushes, we reached the brooklet.

8. Classification of roughing filters 1996

First time the road crossed a stream, there was proof it was the right road: a covered bridge stood over that little one-jump brooklet.

Prentice Alvin Card, Orson Scott 1989

Thus the Tomingans, Tommie and Jim, stood in armor of proof scarcely an arm's length from Yellow Castle's heavy steel door and burned it down into a brooklet of molten metal.

Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972

I do not believe that nature herself ever made anything so lovely as this artificial brooklet.

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

A simple ballad awakens a quiet pleasure, while the magnificent symphonies of Beethoven or Mozart fill the soul with a rapture with which the former feeling is no more to be compared than the brooklet with the ocean; for the latter is inexpressibly nearer to its heavenly model.

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