Brooklet

And, for Jerry, most delightful of all, there was the gurgle and plash of a brooklet that pursued its invisible way over mossy stones under a garmenture of tender and delicate ferns. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His walks were devoted to the most solitary recesses among the neighbouring woods and hills — his fishing-rod was often left behind him, or carried merely as an apology for sauntering slowly by the banks of some little brooklet — and his success so indifferent, that Meg said the piper of ❋ Unknown (2008)

He built a fire by a brooklet beyond the willows, boiled the eggs and toasted the bread and made the tea, with cream ready in a jar. ❋ Unknown (2004)

They heard the gurgling of the full brooklet hurrying down the hill, and the faint twittering of the early birds. ❋ Unknown (2004)

You have heard the wood-dove calling in the lone stillness of the summertime; you have found the unheeded brooklet singing and babbling where no ear comes to hear. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Gentle splashing announced the nearby water source and, after a final jump through small bushes, we reached the brooklet. ❋ Unknown (1996)

First time the road crossed a stream, there was proof it was the right road: a covered bridge stood over that little one-jump brooklet. ❋ Card, Orson Scott (1989)

Thus the Tomingans, Tommie and Jim, stood in armor of proof scarcely an arm's length from Yellow Castle's heavy steel door and burned it down into a brooklet of molten metal. ❋ Smith, E. E. (1972)

Out by a quarter to eight to examine the river Brent at Hendon; a mere brooklet, running in most dainty sinuosity under overshadowing oaks and all manner of leafiness. ❋ Cicely Margaret Powell [Editor] Binyon (N/A)

I do not believe that nature herself ever made anything so lovely as this artificial brooklet. ❋ Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (N/A)

The Prussian Government has military maps of every foot of its territory so complete that every hill, ravine, brooklet, field, and forest is delineated with perfect accuracy. ❋ Various (N/A)

He is not insensible to pastoral charms, and often selects a home among the hemlocks and under the broad-armed oaks, by bosky glen or open mead, wherever the brooklet brawls or dreams, for he sticks to the waterside like a beaver. ❋ Various (N/A)

A simple ballad awakens a quiet pleasure, while the magnificent symphonies of Beethoven or Mozart fill the soul with a rapture with which the former feeling is no more to be compared than the brooklet with the ocean; for the latter is inexpressibly nearer to its heavenly model. ❋ Various (N/A)

I think of a foaming brooklet with a bridge of stones across; ❋ Various (N/A)

Beyond lay the city of Chattanooga, nestling down in the bend of the river, while away in the distance occasional glimpses of the stream could be had as it wound in and out around the hills and mountains that lined its either side, until the great river looked no larger than a mountain brooklet. ❋ D. Augustus Dickert (N/A)

The sweet purling brooklet, with voice soft and low, ❋ J. C. Manning (N/A)

About midway on the beach, a fresh-water brooklet flows towards the sea. ❋ Various (N/A)

The young man, pale and agitated, strode with feverish haste over the short-cropped grass, while the little brooklet at his side seemed to murmur a flute-like, soothing accompaniment to the tumultuous beatings of his heart. ❋ Various (N/A)

All the way an invisible brooklet gurgled and kept her company. ❋ M. T. W. (N/A)

To the right, Bridal Veil Falls, a tiny brooklet it seemed in the distance, winding down a mountain meadow, looking frightened a moment at the edge of the cliff, leaping over into spray, caught up and transfigured by the afternoon sun, as it fell on the rocks hundreds of feet below. ❋ Frederick Vining Fisher (N/A)

Farmer: Hey, I live in Brooklet [City boy]: What's that? Farmer: Oh, just a miniature [Metter], a [true hell] hole. City boy: Ah, ok, sorry about that. ❋ Hooded Wonder (2012)