brooklet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of brooklet
Example Sentences
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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 Rosalind Richards
Then the little damsel Piltti Answered in the words that follow: "Here I seek a village bathroom, Seek a bath near reed-fringed brooklet, That relief may reach the suffering, For the need is very pressing."
From Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two by Elias Lönnrot
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
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
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 Samuel Adams Drake
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