Rills

Word RILLS
Character 5
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Definitions and meanings of "Rills"

What do we mean by rills?

A very small brook; a streamlet.

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The word "rills" in example sentences

They are leaving far behind them heathery moor and mountain rills, ❋ Unknown (1906)

Through these valleys wander ever beautiful rivers, carrying the bright sparkling waters from the mountain rills and snows. ❋ Unknown (1893)

The battle waxed fierce and fell, the blood ran in rills, nor did they cease to wage war with lunge of lance and sway of sword in lustiest way, till the day darkened and the night starkened, when the drums beat the retreat and the two hosts drew asunder. 59 Now the Moslems were evilly entreated that day by reason of the riders on elephants and giraffes,60 and many of them were killed and most of the rest were wounded. ❋ Unknown (2006)

A verse of Horace with which Dr. Orkborne was opening his answer, was stopt short, by the eager manner in which Lynmere re-seized his bread with one hand, while, with the other, to the great discomposure of the exact Miss Margland, he stretched forth for the tea-pot, to pour out a bason of tea; not ceasing the libation till the saucer itself, overcharged, sent his beverage in trickling rills from the tablecloth to the floor. ❋ Unknown (1796)

When Gharib heard his father’s name, the tears railed from his eyes in rills and he looked at the messenger and said, “What is thy name?” ❋ Unknown (2006)

The champions fought and heads flew from trunks and the blood ran in rills; nor did brand leave to play and blood to flow and battle fire to flow, till the murk o’ night came, when the two hosts drew apart and, alighting from their steeds rested upon the field by the fires they had kindled. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The second simulator mimics surface water flows called rills - gullies where water concentrates to form a flow channel. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Anna winced at the word "rills," but she felt the word was Germanic in origin, and should help " she hoped " in a world where song seemed to have its roots in a similar tongue. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1997)

She had even caught a phrase, -- "The lazy line of the watchful hills," it was, -- and she was trying to fit it into a verse, and to find something beside "rills" that would rhyme with "hills." ❋ B. M. Bower (1905)

Then there are deep, narrow, crooked "rills" which may have been water-courses; also "clefts" about half a mile wide, and often hundreds of miles long, like deep cracks in the surface going straight through mountain and valley. ❋ George Forbes (1892)

The first of the curious objects which he named "rills" was noted by him in 1787. ❋ Unknown (1874)

And when I stood before them, and their faces turned to me, expectantly, "So twice five miles of fertile ground/With walls and towers were girdled round:/And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,/Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree. . ." and everything thereafter went slap out of my head. ❋ Elizabeth Boleman-Herring (2012)

The overlook was indeed cinematic, presenting a puzzle of skeletal ridges, riddled with rills and dry stream beds, stunning in its unearthly emptiness. ❋ Richard Bangs (2011)

This time Jamie turned to the north, and over a jumble of stone and through a crevice, into the head of a tiny glen, rock-walled and leafy, filled with the gurgling of water from the burn that spilled from a dozen wee falls among the rocks and plunged roistering down the length of the canyon into a series of rills and pools below. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Tiny rills and freshets of water jumped along its face as they trickled down, spraying out into the air in tiny outbursts engineered by the canyon wall's long-ago designers. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

A breeze rills the ridge of his back, and seized by an urge he can't explain or control he drops to one side in a patch of soft moss, rolls onto his shoulders and writhes so the ends of his body sway through green velvet leaves and midnight dew soaks into his skin. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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