brooklet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of brooklet
Example Sentences
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At the bottom was the dry bed of a small brooklet, with a further shore that sloped gradually up into second-growth timber again.
From The Auto Boys' Vacation by James A. (James Andrew) Braden
Without a word Paul vanished in the thick undergrowth beyond the brooklet.
From The Auto Boys' Vacation by James A. (James Andrew) Braden
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
In the middle of all was a fine spring, from which a tiny brooklet rippled out into the plain.
From The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo by William O. Stoddard
And the somewhat low-lying foot-path had been converted into a running brooklet, so that Maia and her escort had to make their way sideways over moss and the roots of trees.
From 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
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