rivulets

Water ran in rivulets down her face; the bright blue and red cloth of her shirt clung to her arms as she slapped her hands on her body in an imitation of raindrops.

The Grace of the Foolish « A Fly in Amber 2009

When the tide pulls out, it leaves sandy flats raced by rivulets from the canal.

Hike to Cuastecomate, Jalisco 2007

When the tide pulls out, it leaves sandy flats raced by rivulets from the canal.

Hike to Cuastecomate, Jalisco 2007

From beneath the black-lacquer crags of its armor, stretched across its mighty, demoniac reptilian form, he could see the dark-hued blood flow in rivulets over the red-grey scales.

365 tomorrows » Footnote to War : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006

From beneath the black-lacquer crags of its armor, stretched across its mighty, demoniac reptilian form, he could see the dark-hued blood flow in rivulets over the red-grey scales.

365 tomorrows » 2006 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006

Pat's "rint" for him; or than the lanky monsters who wallow in German rivulets, while the village swineherd, beneath a shady lime, forgets his fleas in the melody of a Jew's harp -- strange mud-colored creatures, four feet high and four inches thick, which look as if they had passed their lives, as a collar of Oxford brawn is said to do, between two tight boards.

Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847

Jack was in person exceedingly like a pig: but not like every pig: not in the least like the Devon pigs of those days, which, I am sorry to say, were no more shapely than the true Irish greyhound who pays Pat’s “rint” for him; or than the lanky monsters who wallow in German rivulets, while the village swineherd, beneath a shady lime, forgets his fleas in the melody of

Westward Ho! 2007

The channels of the rivulets are the only roads for the traveller.

Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia with Some Account of the Late Emperor the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People Dr. Henri Blanc 1871

"Creeks are small streams, such as in Scotland would be termed 'burns,' and in England 'rivulets'"

In the Forest Or, pictures of life and scenery in the woods of Canada Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850

It felt as if rivulets of fire ate their way through his leg.

Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011