brooklet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of brooklet
Example Sentences
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Then—for thy shelter from life's sultrier suns, The oak of strength I set o'er joy that runs With brooklet glee from winds that grieve above.
From Song-Surf by Cale Young Rice
So I came now, O Psyche, and then I espied a brooklet meandering through the sand.
From Psyche by Louis Couperus
The blue eyes were wet now, frankly wet, bluebells by a mountain brook–the little bursting brooklet of feeling within.
From Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl by Isabel Katherine Hornibrook
The brooklet came from a disused still-house hidden in laurel and hemlock so dense that direct sunlight never penetrated the glen.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart
She chews the cud of sweetest revery Above your worldly prattle, brooklet merry, Oblivious of all things sublunary.
From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various
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