Runlet

Bradford also mentions the filling of a "runlet" with water at the Cape. ❋ Azel Ames (1876)

The wine was excellent, notwithstanding its having been brought in a runlet from Edinburgh; and the habits of the Marquis, when engaged with such good cheer, were somewhat sedentary. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I wonder whether your little runlet of wedding peace is better than the raging torrent of my love! ❋ Unknown (2007)

He did not recognise that this tiniest runlet which fell back at once was of the same element as the tidal wave which had swept over him yesternight. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He halted at a little runlet among the fields, and considered the hoof-pitted bank. ❋ Unknown (2003)

From this rock a silver runlet issued into the sunlight. ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)

The twelfth, a runlet of unpolished gold, covered with a small vine of large Indian pearl of Topiarian work. ❋ Unknown (2002)

A single runlet of blood, incredibly bright in the gray day, slipped from the comer of his mouth. ❋ King, Stephen, 1947- (1991)

As I knotted my choice into a square of seal-foam, Valcyr came walking, with that particular sure-footed daintiness of her species, along the bank of the small runlet. ❋ Norton, Andre (1968)

Then Red-Cap bobbed away at a corner cupboard, until he extracted therefrom a small keg or runlet of St. Croix rum of most ripe age and choice flavor, some of which, by an adroit and experienced crook of the elbow, he managed to insinuate into the milk, which, with a little brown sugar, he stirred up carefully and deliberately with a large spoon, ❋ Frederic S. Cozzens (N/A)

Greatest wonder of all, she accepted the new relation tacitly, and leaned more and more weight on his hand, and even looked up and laughed with pleasure when he almost lifted her over a muddy runlet. ❋ John Frederick (N/A)

We ascertained from them that you were supposed to soak it in water before tackling it in earnest, but as the only supply (except the runlet they still carried on them) was in the fresh-water canal behind our unshaken line, such a course was not practicable; the discovery of a very dead Turk some days later in that canal led to the ribald suggestion that he had rashly endeavoured to eat his ration. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Thence we descended into a glen of blazing white stone, without any verdure, in which were a diversity of paths, and a petty runlet of water issuing from the ground, but soon showing only stagnant green pools and mud, with frogs in abundance, then evaporated altogether. ❋ James Finn (N/A)

We ate cassava cake and drank from a runlet of water. ❋ Unknown (1922)

Close in the precinct stand several little chapels dedicated to particular gods, each of whom owns his distinctive name and special worship, and is the tutelary deity of a runlet. ❋ Unknown (1916)

Every little runlet and dribble is harvested and conveyed by subterranean channels to the main ditch. ❋ Unknown (1913)

Water-conduits, varying in size from a brook to the merest runlet, cross and recross each other on palm-stem aqueducts at different levels; the properties are served with the precious element according to time. ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)

He crossed a half-dried-up runlet and climbed a small hill, neither of which he remembered having met in his night from the wreck, and in a little while he came out upon the railroad. ❋ Unknown (1910)