Streamlet

But when Othman arose to power he diverted a streamlet from the stream, and Mu’awiyah in his turn diverted from it several streamlets; and without ceasing in like manner, Yezid and the Banu Marwán such as Abd al-Malik and ❋ Unknown (2006)

The streamlet is a favourite haunt of the hippopotamus; a small one dived when it sighted us, and did not reappear. ❋ Unknown (2003)

We eventually arrived at Pimental, a fiendishly hot, steamy, unhealthy place, where across a streamlet was a station for the transhipment of rubber. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)

It is enriched with groups of trees and picturesque cottages, and possesses a luxuriant growth of shrubs and underwood, that almost conceals from view the streamlet, which is the chief cause of its fertility. ❋ Unknown (1859)

As they advanced, their ears caught the gentle sound of a tiny streamlet, which issued from the rock, while the ground beneath their feet was perfectly dry, consisting in some places of hard rock, in others of soft, warm sand. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

But we know of none that is so called at the present time; and can only conjecture that the streamlet which is now called Haemon, and runs by the ❋ Plutarch (2003)

Here stand, like sentinels at the end of all things living, the three or four last, lonely palms -- they and their fellows lower down are fed by a silvery streamlet which is forced upwards, I suppose, by contact with ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)

But we know of none that is so called at the present time; and can only conjecture that the streamlet which is now called Hæmon, and runs by the Temple of Hercules, where the Grecians were encamped, might perhaps in those days be called Thermodon, and after the fight, being filled with blood and dead bodies, upon this occasion, as we guess, might change its old name for that which it now bears. ❋ Plutarch (1909)

But we know of none that is so called at the present time; and can only conjecture that the streamlet which is now called Haemon, and runs by the Temple of Hercules, where the Greeks were encamped, might perhaps in those days be called ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (1884)

a small streamlet which issues from the bottom of a steep rock, some distance off, owes its existence to the glacière. ❋ Unknown (1881)

An invisible streamlet whispered under broad-fronded brakes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They crossed the stream and took the cattle track over the low rocky hill and through the scrub forest of manzanita, till they emerged on the next tiny valley with its meadow-bordered streamlet. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Therefore, Tyler please send me: a bottle of Grand Cru grapefruit juice, a bundle of fresh lean asparagus, three green apples, a jar of dried thyme, a half-pound of baby peas, a bag of gooseberries and a tin of small white pebbles washed smooth by a virgin streamlet. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There she stayed, and although a streamlet ran through the cave, she would drink none of it. ❋ George R. R. Martin (2010)

In plain language, he approached so near the bank of a little rivulet, which in that place passed betwixt the footpath and the horse-road, that he lost his footing, and fell into the channel of the streamlet from a height of three or four feet. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I don't think you dumb down your characters, and you have to keep in mind that the average is a wide, wide sea, and the hyper-achiever is a streamlet. ❋ A. Fortis (2008)

But "Irregular Verses" turns away from its own "sight to dream of" to the barren reality that befalls not those who transgress but those who are afraid to transgress, as we suddenly learn that "the cottage fled in air" and the "streamlet never flowed." ❋ Unknown (2006)