brooklet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of brooklet
Example Sentences
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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 Halsey, Rena I.
He hoped, however, to erect a reservoir in which he might collect every little brooklet of living water, from which he might again water the whole world.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.
The sands are hard and gently shelving, with here and there a fresh-water brooklet trickling through the bulk-head of ballast heaped up at the top by the sea.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams
Between the two mountains the Pleistus flowed from east to west, and opposite the town received the brooklet of the Castalian fountain, which rose in a deep gorge in the centre of the Parnassian cliff.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
There is a little wood in the upper corner, cool and shadowy, with a brooklet set deep in mosses, trickling through the midst.
From A Northern Countryside by Richards, Rosalind
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