brooklet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of brooklet
Example Sentences
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Before we reach this, we find water on either side of us; that to the west being not from the Cam, but a small tributary brooklet which joins the river near the Great Bridge.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
She saw the desert, without an oasis, only the brooklet of tears that meandered far away from whence she had come.
From Psyche by Louis Couperus
When the girls reached the wood with its cool, damp shade, moss-grown paths, and running brooklet, they set to work with renewed vigor to hunt for specimens.
From Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer by Rena I. Halsey
I look till the fields and brooklet Swim like a vision by, And a room in a lowly dwelling Lies clear before my eye.
From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Richard Henry Stoddard
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
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