rivulet

A thin rivulet of blood trickled from a gash in her lip.

The Wall « A Fly in Amber 2009

"Untitled Beads" is a close-up of water droplets on a reflective surface, perhaps a car window; reflected in the mirror surface of a rivulet is the light from a streetlight or a passing car.

Painter Seth Adelsberger shakes things up in Civilian Art show 2011

The rivulet was a sidewalk that nature made, not that I would've ever known it if I hadn't been led there and experienced it myself -- if I hadn't seen others using it for what likely might be a daily trek.

Beth Arnold: Need a Dose of Nature? An Exotic Spa? Try Wildfitness in Kenya 2009

The timber on the plains and hills was chiefly those species of eucalyptus called apple tree, box, and gum trees; and on the banks of the rivulet were a few large casuarina.

Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales 2003

The cloisters, 270 feet in length, and divided by 19 pillars and 20 arches, extend across the rivulet, which is arched over to support them; and near to the south end is a large circular stone basin.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828 Various

For this purpose, let us suppose a nation of Indians on the banks of some river or rivulet, which is always the case, as all {98} men whatever have at all times occasion for water.

History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz

-- I went out for plants, and descended to the Paeen rivulet, which is of small size: followed up its course some way, and then returned over a low hill to Khosha's.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

It is a slender affluent of the Cconi, to be called a rivulet in any country but South America, but here named a river with the same proud effrontery which designates as a _city_ any collection of

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various

We then proceeded skirting the hill, and descended subsequently to the _O_. rivulet, which is of no size.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

From this spring, the water escapes in a tiny stream, called a rivulet or creek, and flows along until it enters a river.

New National Fourth Reader J. Marshall Hawkes