英语词汇“streamlet”造句的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

Down lower, where an Indian Creek feeder streamlet crossed under the road and the valley floor’s marshy fields began, at least a dozen bats in the air actually frightened him. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here it came out of the rock in a little falling streamlet, and flowed across the path, and turning south ran away swiftly to be lost among the dead stones. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

At the edge of a small moss-lined streamlet he paused, listening. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could distinguish no streamlet, no jetty, and all distances seemed one. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

By the time they had shrugged off their coats, the glacier streamlet that was still covered by a thin layer of ice in the morning had turned into a bubbling stream of melting water. The world’s melting glaciers are yielding up their secrets too quickly 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

Ricks nudges the bow of the boat into the mouth of a narrow streamlet shooting off the main creek. Making a comeback: Biologist finds herring in NC creek 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z

I know the trees they passed under, the streamlets they gathered water from. Opinion | An attack on one hiker is an attack on us all 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

Elidorus! our time is up; we must haste over other mountains and valleys, over streamlets and rivers, for we have a long distance yet to go, and but a short time to travel it in.” The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales 2012-04-27T02:00:33.040Z

A really good-sized streamlet of clear water wound here and there, with quiet pools, and bright tumbling little cascades. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z

Lower down the streamlet formed a small lake, on which a boat was kept, and where Bruno was wont to row his wife, and try to teach her unskilful hand to guide the oar. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z

It is unnecessary to mention the names of the numerous marshy lakes which exist, especially in Friesland and Groningen, and are connected with rivers or streamlets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z

This is the unity which lives in my Symphonies—numberless streamlets meandering on, in endless variety of shape, but all diverging into one common bed. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z

Caltha.—Showy marsh plants, adapted for the margins of lakes, streamlets or artificial bogs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z

The dark-colored liquor poured over the table-cloth, and, dividing into numerous little streamlets, diverged in every direction from the parent source. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z

Here a little streamlet had its birth, gushing forth from the rock itself in cold purity. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z

But later in the day, when the tedium of inaction had become unbearable, he started to explore the lower course of the streamlet on whose bank he had slept. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z

But, to all appearance, more rain fell during the night, for when the household rose at daybreak, the hills were running with water, and every little streamlet was musical. A Little Wizard 2012-02-15T03:00:38.160Z

The stream which bursts from the hills is divided into innumerable streamlets, which must clothe these gardens with beauty. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z

In the ponds and streamlets, beside which, in the old days, kings sauntered, the youngsters of the slums fish with bent pins or scoop with small nets for small fish. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z

A wall of almost perpendicular rock rose on each side, and the streamlet leaped sheer down fifty feet into a pool; as far as he could see the chasm remained unbroken. A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti 2012-02-06T03:00:13.023Z

The aged holly trees more silently, Now we are gone, stand on the silent ground; I seem to hear the streamlet floating by With a complaining, melancholy sound. The Isle of Palms and Other Poems 2012-02-04T03:00:15.103Z

To many charming byways amid the streamlets and the meadows and the gentle slopes of this southern Cambridgeshire the seven highways out of Cambridge will successively conduct us. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z

To where some crystal streamlet flows: There by its mossy banks prepare The pillow of his long repose. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z

This route to Brighton is singularly rural and lovely, and particularly beautiful in the way of copses and wooded hollows, whence streamlets trickle away to join the river Adur. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z

Each hair becomes a slender streamlet's bed, As if a rivulet from this ocean red. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z

See! farther down the streamlet, art hath framed A delicate cascade! The Isle of Palms and Other Poems 2012-02-04T03:00:15.103Z

She loved the murmur of this mighty town, The lark rejoiced her from its lattice prison; A streamlet soothes her now,—the bird has flown,— Some dust is waiting there—a soul has risen. A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z

The ride to his left disclosed rough ground, rocky heights cut by streamlets, and covered by heavy forest tangle, as formidable to military manœuvres of raw troops as armed battlements. From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America 2011-12-28T03:00:39.977Z

As for the Father of Rivers, he becomes a dusky-gray, winding streamlet, and his largest ships are no more than flat pale decks, all the masts and rigging being foreshortened to nothing. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z

They took pictures, and Elmer made sure to get one of the tree that in falling had arched the streamlet in such a remarkable way. Boy Scouts: Tenderfoot Squad or, Camping at Raccoon Lodge 2011-12-15T03:00:17.777Z

Although the streamlets were all frozen, although ice was afloat in the bay, and a grey and leaden sky overhead, our boys were not sorry to land and have a look around. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z

The portion of the forest which was chosen stood high over a little green and bosky glen, adown which a streamlet ran, joining the great river about a mile below. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z

The Gap is a pass cut through Bull Run Mountain for the flow of a streamlet, through Occoquan Creek, to the waters of the Potomac. From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America 2011-12-28T03:00:39.977Z

In this ravine was a streamlet which, however, had so worn away its rocky bed that we could hardly see it. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z

The moisture only extends a few yards, gradually diminishing till the trickling streamlet is lost in the famishing soil. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z

Little foothills of the ridge extended downwards towards the coast, forming ridges in miniature, cut here and there by streamlets. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z

Here the road again crosses a small streamlet, and then suddenly strikes boldly into the side of the mountain which is to be ascended. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z

Near it is a streamlet flowing, Where old shady trees are growing; But of one alone I sing. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z

For many a hillside streamlet There falls with a broken tinkle, Falling and dying, falling and dying. Poems - First Series 2011-10-28T02:00:21.917Z

And he turned up by the side of the streamlet, keeping on the gravel at its side. Chronicles of Martin Hewitt 2011-10-24T02:00:16.617Z

Beneath the tufted sallows the streamlet thrills With the leaping trout and the gleam of the daffodils. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z

If a streamlet ran along the line, it was carefully dammed up, so as to be rendered impassible. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z

Of one summer eve I ponder, When I musing chanced to wander By the streamlet's margin bright. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z

But a streamlet gurgling on, But a small stone rolling, Calls up forgotten duties gone, Like a death knell tolling. Ovind A Story of Country Life in Norway 2011-10-13T02:00:43.280Z

Here the ground sloped from the left down towards the right, and a tiny streamlet, a mere trickle of a foot or two wide, ran across the path. Chronicles of Martin Hewitt 2011-10-24T02:00:16.617Z

"Father!" the voice like music fell, Clear as the murmuring flow Of mountain streamlet trickling down From heights of virgin snow. Elias An Epic of the Ages 2011-10-13T02:00:41.923Z

And now we are up, and pause to look thankfully, fearfully back while the horses stand panting, the sweat running in streamlets over their hoofs. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z

Extending along it from west to east, and occupying its entire southern part, lay an oblong piece of water, into which the streamlet of the pass discharged itself. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z

But the streamlet was no longer there, diverted perhaps to some other channel, and the hollow of its bed was filled up and made level with the road. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z

The mighty rushing torrent is the fashion, but who can do the wimpling, dimpling streamlet? Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z

And here perhaps was a rockery, with a fountain playing and a streamlet trickling away riverwards, through the greenest of grass. Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z

The low hills, so characteristic of these parts, stretch themselves on either bank, unbroken except where some little streamlet forces its way by a gentle ravine through the scrubby undergrowth. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z

The sun shone as brightly as now, the streamlet ran just as blithe, the air was filled, as now, with the sweet-smelling pine. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:34.720Z

It brings visions of meadow and mountain, Of valley, and streamlet, and hill, When Life’s ocean but played in a fountain— Ah, would that it sparkled so still! A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z

At the fourth hour of the morning we lay by the streamlet bed, two hundred paces from the robbers’ sentry post in the rocky passage. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z

Meanwhile unnumbered glittering streamlets played, And hurled everywhere their waters’ sheen; That as they bickered through the sunny glade, Though restless still themselves, a lulling murmur made.” Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z

There’s some,” pointing to a tall wild parsnip, or “gix,” on the verge of the streamlet. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z

Here the streamlet rests awhile before plunging down the steeps beyond and entering the true glen—a place of shelving banks and many trees. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z

Thy green pleasant pastures, thy streamlet so clear, Old classic village! to Elia were dear— Rare child of humanity! oft have we stray’d On Sir Hugh’s pleasant banks in the cool of the shade. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z

How quickly this little fountain grows into a streamlet and then to a considerable brook!—without apparently receiving the waters of any feeders. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z

Crouching under the waggon I watched it and saw the little streamlets, dirty and débris-laden, steal slowly on like sluggard snakes down to my feet, and winding round me, meet beyond and hasten on. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z

Looking up there, the sky was blue and clear, and the sunlight fell brightly on the open space by the streamlet. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z

Beneath, the mass of the beech wood took on wonderful colour and the streamlet, emerging into meadows, flashed back the last glow of the sky. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z

In front, and somewhat lower, a streamlet winds, fringing the sward, and across it the fir plantations begin, their dark sombre foliage hanging over the water. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z

Still farther the streamlet becomes a broad brook, flowing through meadows in the midst of which stands a solitary farmhouse. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z

One little streamlet, I well remember, delayed the division probably two hours. Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade 2011-07-21T02:00:19.027Z

But in the deep narrow channel of the streamlet there was a change—the tiny trickle of water was no longer illumined by the vertical beams, a slight slant left it to run in shadow. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z

It opened up before them, a black and shadowy hollow, with little streamlets trickling through. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z

The keeper now and then shoots a grebe in the mere where the streamlet widens out into a small lake, which again is bordered by water meadows. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z

Ever when the running brook is frozen such little spring: are free of ice, and so, too, is the streamlet for some distance. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z

It is one of the most densely populated spots on the face of the earth—a seething human sea fed by streams, streamlets, and rills of immigration flowing from all the Yiddish-speaking centres of Europe. Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto 2011-07-13T02:00:17.480Z

At the bottom there was a streamlet running along deep in a gully, a little pool of the clearest water to dip from, and a green sparred wicket-gate in a hawthorn hedge about the garden. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z

And we heard the calling, calling, Of the screech-owl in the brake; Where the trumpet-vine hung, crawling Down the ledge, into the lake Heard the sighing streamlet falling. Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z

Even moderate-sized streamlets become tainted in the latter part of the autumn by the mass of leaves they carry down, or filter through, in woodland districts. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z

A streamlet that runs through a peaty field is a favourite spot. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z

There was silence for a moment or two in the little shady garden, for the tinkling streamlet seemed to be at rest as well. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z

The tiniest thread of a streamlet trickles down the face of the rock, losing itself in a pool beneath, which reflects, as in a mirror, cliff, and overhanging bushes, and blue sky. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z

Now, Aquarella was the spirit of a pretty, sparkling streamlet, which strayed through the grounds of a mighty lord, in whose welfare she had always been interested. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z

It was with difficulty, that he kept his track, fording a swift streamlet, and descending into a terrible ravine. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z

Presently he sits down on the branch of an oak, with his feet dangling over a streamlet. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z

The 11th Brigade, scarcely 3000 strong, followed the course of the Gu� Perray streamlet up to the northern end of the wood. The Franco-German War of 1870-71 2011-05-26T02:00:14.447Z

O, hark; O, hear, My lady, dear, O'er woods and hills and streamlets flying, The winding note Of horns remote, In softest echo dying—dying. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z

There are always a gallows, and a notice-board marked "No thoroughfare," on the banks of the streamlet of your life, even now that it has become a pearl-bearing brook. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z

The brook from Pendarrel Park murmured along it, and a footpath, devious and unfrequented, followed the wanderings of the streamlet. Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-17T02:00:19.780Z

However, she proceeded at last, and soon turned aside from the main road by a tiny streamlet. Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-16T02:00:19.270Z

The streamlet ripples through the mead, beneath the maple tree; There came a maiden that stream to draw—a lovely maid was she; From the white walls of old Belgrade that maid came smilingly. An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics 2011-05-14T02:00:10.287Z

Rob was not having any difficulty whatever in following the trail after the two fugitives had left the little streamlet. The Boy Scouts Under Fire in Mexico 2011-05-02T02:00:18.793Z

Sancho entered the mountain pass, and left them in a pleasant spot, refreshed by a streamlet of clear water, and shaded by rocks and overhanging foliage. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z

I found them about three miles from camp in a beautiful little valley covered with grass, and through which flowed a small streamlet of pure cold water. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z

The little streamlets united to form larger ones, and these in turn joined their waters in still greater streams. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z

The streamlet ripples through the mead, beneath the maple tree; There came a maid that stream to draw—the loveliest maid was she; From the white walls of old Belgrade that maid came smilingly. An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics 2011-05-14T02:00:10.287Z

This is the “lone streamlet” so much loved by the poet, to which he addresses one of his poems: “Here, if a bard may christen thee, I’ll call thee Ribbledin.” A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z

"Be it so, Lord!" said the venerable Ānanda in assent to the Blessed One; and, taking a bowl, he went down to the streamlet. The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus 2011-04-19T02:00:18.493Z

Equivalent to the English suffixes -let in "streamlet," -ule in "globule," "pustule." The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z

It is bounded on the south by a deep dell, with a streamlet that falls from the rock, then meanders through the recess, and disappears in its windings. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z

“Linger awhile upon some bending planks That lean against a streamlet’s rushy banks, And watch intently Nature’s gentle doings: They will be found softer than the ring-dove’s cooings.” Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z

Farther on the cliffs diminish in height, and are furrowed by numerous streamlets, and the rugged, stony beach changes to smooth, yielding sand. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z

This streamlet flowed out of the mouth of the cave and came from a lake on the top of the mountain; this accounted for its warmth to the hand which surprised us all. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z

North of the gully cut down the lower hill-side by this streamlet, the hill-side of some three acres is quite steep, still partially wooded, and wholly devoted to pasturage. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z

It was noticed by his staff that he was moody and irritable, very unlike his ordinary self, and that he displayed an extraordinary aversion to water, when crossing the little streamlets in the forest. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z

He must have known they could not cross the swollen streamlet, or he’d never have stopped by it as he has done. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z

It is backed by the Cheviot Hills, and often broken into deep dells, with little streamlets rushing down them, and weird old oaks whose withered branches are never cut off, sheltering herds of deer. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z

A half-hour later, Frosty came to a streamlet, one of many that pursued their winding courses across the mountain, tumbled down it and finally poured their waters into a river. Swamp Cat 2011-03-06T03:00:20.453Z

Was not Manfred, the supremely egotistical and subjective, perpetually dragging the mountain-tops and Alpine streamlets into his talk of his own troubles? The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z

For us, for us alone in all the world the streamlets murmured, the breezes whispered together, the wavelets plashed musically, the blue sky glowed, the sun shone goldingly. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z

Can any thing be more delightful than the waving forests, with their dense and deep green foliage, interspersed with grassy and sunny fields and murmuring streamlets, which spread all around us? The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z

Then out of the hedge came two streamlets through pipes, which to me had all the beauty of waterfalls. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z

When they pass certain fields, rivers, creeks, or streamlets, large trees, sugar-cane plantations and other places, they ask permission and good passage from the genii or nonos. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 2011-02-26T03:00:46.860Z

It has long been reclaimed; the streamlets run in deep ditches, and some of them have been turned into canals. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. 2011-02-19T03:01:10.063Z

Now the valley I perceive Where together we will go, And the streamlet watch each eve Gliding peacefully below. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z

Hours and hours they kept on weeping, 'Til their tears began to flow In many trickling streamlets To the valley down below. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z

A pedestal here and there supported a stone basin, from which rose a thin streamlet of water. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z

They do that both on this, and many other occasions, in the fields, sugar-cane plantations, streamlets, at the foot of any large tree, more generally some calunpan,2 and in various other places. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 2011-02-26T03:00:46.860Z

Leaving Calabash Wood behind us, we advanced over ground covered with manioc, potatoes, and many plants unknown to us; pleasant streamlets watered the fruitful soil, and the view on all sides was open and agreeable. The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island 2011-01-03T03:01:03.473Z

A streamlet, issuing in little rills from springs on the summit of the ascent, fell in tiny cascades through woody glens and artificial grottoes till it approached the house. Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles 2011-01-01T03:00:27.980Z

She led him to this dangerous place That on the streamlet's glee doth frown; The sunlight, gleaming on her face, Her wild, dark beauty seemed to crown. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z

The flowing streamlet, and the murmuring rill, In ocean find a kindred spirit still. Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith 2010-12-26T03:00:20.460Z

There they lay, amidst the wet spret, or on the velvet fringe of the streamlet, in all the glory of scale and fin. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7

We ran along the coast while the sun rose and beautified the mountain-tops, the green slopes, gulches, and fern-clad hills sparkling with streamlets. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands

But at ordinary times the water in the Lane, as much of it as there is, finds its way toward the Brom, owing to the feeding of the Grange Pond by local streamlets. Deep Moat Grange

Little streamlets of water ran from the drooping edges of my hat and from my chin, water dashed in my eyes and I blinked it out. The Jonathan Papers

None can tell the overwhelming sorrow, the keen agony which succeeded your absence; my only solace was to seek the streamlet and mingle my boyish tears with its limpid waters. Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851

Here where a tree and its wild liana, Leaning over the streamlet, grow, Once a nymph, like the moon'd Diana, Sat in the ages long ago. A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems

Roundabout it were streamlets with pools where, in season, the mountain trout leaped and darted in shimmering flashes, and to the store one summer noon came two hungry fishermen from the lowlands. The Tempering

But wherever you find a dense growth, as you do here, there you will find their roots giving out the seepage that feeds a million streamlets, and these in turn feed the great rivers. Unexplored!

The ice is lumpy and broken, and the streamlets that run down to the plain are so tortuous that fifty yards without a spill is considered a good run for a toboggan. The Unveiling of Lhasa

They could also perceive a small streamlet making its way through the brushwood. Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa

From the clouds looked forth a living eye, and in the sound of rustling leaf and singing streamlet, spake the voices of human longing and human joy. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life

Small pieces of disintegrating limestone are transported, during heavy rains, by a streamlet, to the foot of the declivity, where land shells are very abundant. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology

A momentary lull in the drippy streamlet of pedestrians; she leaned out into the darkness and peered up, then down the aisle of street. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole

With its mellow rays it lights a leafy willow under which a streamlet, formed by the overflow of the water that turns the mill of Chaillot, flows murmuringly by. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades

Vacant baths are rare in village, None at mouth of reed-fringed streamlet. Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two

O don't you remember the streamlet, Ben Bolt, Where the boys that played hookey from school Sat snug on the banks eating taffy and pie, Or bathed in the clear crystal pool. Harper's Round Table, July 30, 1895

Sir Bolt, you have oft been here; And Sir Arrow, you've often flown near; But still from pure haste All your courage would waste On the earth and the streamlet clear. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15

See, it passes a stagnant pool, and the pool hails it: ‘Whither away, master streamlet?’ To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians

A streamlet might be heard, but not seen, rippling along not far from the walk. Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story.

Often and often you will be called on to clear trail, to cut timber for trail construction or to make a footing over some ultra-tempestuous streamlet. Camp and Trail

An immovable streamlet ran down its bed of carved irregularities between flowery banks and underneath a bridge formed of a single arch. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar

"No trumpet-blast profaned The hour in which the Prince of Peace was born; No bloody streamlet stained Earth's silver rivers on that sacred morn." The Bible Story

In like manner he would halt to pluck any stray ears of wild oats that grew along the hedge sides, and occasionally slake his thirst at convenient streamlets. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance

The air was refreshed by a succession of little mountain streamlets, which splashed with a cool sound about our horses' feet. Reminiscences, 1819-1899

No streamlet on the hill-side But finds its course to run; But not a hand to open My pathway to the sun. Black Forest Village Stories

But from the lake a streamlet flowed to the open sea. Saga of Halfred the Sigskald A Northern Tale of the Tenth Century

The small birds rejoice in the green leaves returning, The murmuring streamlet winds clear through the vale; The hawthorn trees blow in the dews of the morning, And wild scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History

Now tell me all about the war, and what they dammed each streamlet for.” Lord Stranleigh Abroad

Chilled by the rain, the tender lotus sank: She filled its place upon the streamlet's bank. The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa

Linger awhile upon some bending planks 5 That lean against a streamlet's rushy banks, And watch intently Nature's gentle doings, They will be found softer than ringdove's cooings. Graded Poetry: Third Year

In a small boat they could row upon this lake, and down the streamlet to the sea. Saga of Halfred the Sigskald A Northern Tale of the Tenth Century

Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlets plays; Come, let us spend the lightsome days In the birks of Aberfeldy. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History

There was the dry track of a streamlet, along which a faint trickle oozed to the surface here and there. Leonore Stubbs

"These verses are full of spirit and life, and the merry mood plays and sings between the lines like the contented streamlet between wind-swept hillsides." Eden An Episode

Halleck followed the coffin to that beautiful spot beyond the Harlem-122- that they both loved so well, and there by the side of the Bronx streamlet the poet Drake was buried. Literary New York Its Landmarks and Associations

The streamlet of the Fountain of the Hinds flows but a hundred paces from our home. The Infant's Skull Or The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium

Meantime unnumber'd glittering streamlets played, And hurled everywhere their waters' sheen; That, as they bickered through the sunny shade, Though restless still themselves, a lulling murmur made. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History

In the streamlet, white and slender, All alone the nymph is bathing, Beautiful her arms and shoulders Shimmer in the moonbeams' splendor. Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine

The warm showers of June call up the iris in the corner where the streamlet widens, and under the willows appear large yellow flowers above the flags. The Hills and the Vale

The whole earth is for a moment green again—trees whisper—streamlets murmur—and the "merry month o' Spring" is musical through all her groves. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2)

The importance of the results thus obtained by the slightest change of direction in the infant streamlets, furnishes an interesting type of the formation of human characters by habit. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V)

Water, clear and sparkling, which is brought from a mountain stream above, is abundant everywhere in fountains and pools, and in streamlets along the pathways. A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise

Hear the song of its high mountains Of its gushing rills and streamlets, Of its leaping, rolling rivers, Of the meadows still and lonely, Of the groves all solitary, Of the land of cunning fables. The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County.

By these hornbeam trees a little streamlet flows out from the copse and under the road by a culvert. The Hills and the Vale

"Bear up, O Mother Nature!" cry Bird, breeze, and streamlet free, "Our winter voices prophesy Of summer days to thee!" Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848

Sometimes if of soft material they actually are so consumed by the quicker trickling of streamlets at the base than at the summit, or by the general action of damp in decomposing the rock. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V)

A little further, in the turn of the bay, a streamlet trickled in the bottom of a den, thence spilling down a stair of rock into the sea. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25)

A few wooden houses nestling in the bends and gullies, where small streamlets ran. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea

There is nothing to break the exquisite stillness of the night, save the monotonous beating of the waves against the rocks, and the faint rippling murmur of a streamlet in the ash-grove. Rossmoyne

Below yawned an immense ravine, far down in the cool, dark depths of which a little streamlet flowed. Cudjo's Cave

How inspiring, the merry tinkle of the clear streamlet, swiftly flowing over its rocky bed; or the louder roar of the rushing waterfall, where drooping boughs glisten and sparkle with spray-laden foliage! Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century

It is like comparing the great Ben Nevis with the streamlets which flow from his base, and asking, "Is this all the mighty mountain can give the world?" Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.

The floor was covered with a black mud, and a close examination of the face showed tiny streamlets of water trickling down in several places. Facing Death The Hero of the Vaughan Pit. A Tale of the Coal Mines

And troops are coming hither from all quarters, like streamlets flowing into the ocean. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital

Here restless fountains ever murmuring glide, And as their crispèd streamlets play, To feed, Cephisus, thine unfailing tide, Fresh verdure marks their winding way. Lectures Delivered in America in 1874

From the edge of it the water was dripping in tiny streamlets. The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle The Trail of the Seven Cedars

Thou, whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets run! Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1

The brook which ran by Gurta’s encampment had by this time become a streamlet, though still shallow. Callista : a Tale of the Third Century

A few lofty Scots firs grew hard by upon a knoll; a clear fountain near the foot of the knoll sent up a miniature streamlet which meandered in the heather. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI

Finn had already slaked his thirst hurriedly a mile back, in a chattering, rock-bedded mountain streamlet. Finn The Wolfhound

Its name was derived from the ancient streamlet called the Fleet, more commonly "Fleet Ditch," near whose confluence with the Thames, at Ludgate Hill, was the notorious Fleet Prison, with its equally notorious "marriages." Dickens' London

Born 1787: My father loved the patient angler's art, And many a summer's day, from early morn To latest evening, by some streamlet's side, We two have tarried; strange companionship! Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order

What these intervening weeks had been to Carmen, none might have guessed as she sat there with the sunlight filtering in streamlets of gold through her brown hair. Carmen Ariza

No, ’tis a streamlet hidden in the fern, Thus from dawn to dark I wait, I learn Sorrow is all. The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems

To thee the Soma draughts proceed, As streamlets to the lake they feed, Or rivers to the ocean speed. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems

This old cathedral city, at the junction of two small streamlets, a short distance from the sea, lies perhaps a dozen miles away from the nearest railway. The Cathedrals of Northern France

His lordly ships of ice Glistened in the sun; On each side, like pennons wide, Flashing crystal streamlets run. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848

While winter seized the streamlets That fled along the ground, And fast in chains of crystal The truant murmurers bound. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition

So saying, he began to follow up the streamlet, in spite of the jeers and scoldings of his brothers. Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 An Illustrated Magazine

The deer roam at will, and streamlets trickle and English violets and other wild flowers blossom, the praises of whose delicate perfumes and beauties have been sung by Wordsworth and Keats. Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad

Why is thy visage o'ershadowed by gloom, Are Nature's enchantments not scattered around, Has the rose lost her fragrance, the tulip her bloom, Has the streamlet no longer its mild, soothing sound? Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848

When the sun has dried the dew, there are swamps and streamlets in every valley and even far up the mountain slopes. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest'

A streamlet crossed their pathway, moving placidly and gently along, but as they followed its windings, gurgling and foaming over the rocky obstructions, and almost drowning their voices in its noisy course. The Elm Tree Tales

She caught the sparkle of a little cascade, the gleam of a streamlet. Rimrock Trail

A jazz-band will strike up, coughing out the nauseated, retching intervals so stimulating to our feet, and two by two, in driblets, streamlets, and lastly in a volume, the guests will take the floor. The Dust Flower

In the cold green mountains, Nothing grew but moss and trees, Water dripped and sludgy streamlets Trapped our horses by the knees. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse

Then it is only a matter of hours before every streamlet becomes a swollen torrent. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest'

Down a meadow gushed a small streamlet which splashed from a wooden spout on to the roadside.” Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement

The great Fountain of being must first be dried up, before the streamlet can. The Words of Jesus

The confined streamlet or the capacious river—the obscure village or the populous town—were, with parchment rolls and oaken-covered books, alike objects of curiosity in his philosophic eye! Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance

Others were sitting and eating under the shade of a group of weeping willows, overshadowing a bason of pure water, fed by a streamlet trickling down from the neighbouring hills. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.

In the main the streamlets and rivers keep pretty much the same direction and volume one year after another, but then there is also a quiet shifting of these currents. All About Coffee

The forms -rel, as in cockerel, pickerel, and -let, as in streamlet, require a separate consideration. A Handbook of the English Language

This streamlet is as much mud as water, is almost stagnant. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas

Down this glen, the width of which, at its entrance, may be about sixty yards, trickles a scanty streamlet. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe

Now it laved the flower on its brink,—now it fed the umbrageous sycamore and the tall poplar on the plain,—and now it sent off a crystal streamlet to meander through corn-field and meadow-land. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge

The Goat-mother gathered up her skirts, and assisted by Pyto, began to scramble down the bank to the side of the streamlet. Soap-Bubble Stories For Children

The termination -let, as in streamlet, seems to be double, and to consist of the Gothic diminutive -l, and the French diminutive -t. A Handbook of the English Language

In the distance, the ocean, quiet, calm, unruffled, was sleeping beneath the sober sky, and not a breeze wafted its murmurs to the little streamlet by the side of which that old man sat. The Buccaneer A Tale

"The lark sings loud, and the throstle's song Is heard from the depths of the hawthorn dale; And the rush of the streamlet the vales among Doth blend with the sighs of the whispering gale." Music and Some Highly Musical People

In crossing a streamlet, which I visited shortly afterwards, his foot slipped. The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals

Early we turned in: the stars were out; the frogs croaked in the streamlets. In the Tail of the Peacock

Analyze the words former, next, upmost, thirty, streamlet, sweetheart, duckling. A Handbook of the English Language

We arrive at the dawn of day, while the rising sun beautifies the mountain tops, the green slopes, the gulches, and fern-clad hills, which here and there sparkle with silvery streamlets. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands

The blood flowed in crimson streamlets, and some of it spurted on Clarimonde. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century

It was then that M. Seguin, the engineer of the railway, pursuing the same idea, adopted his plan of employing horizontal tubes through which the heated air passed in streamlets. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson

The great rollers pounded against the coral banks, and poured back in a thousand white streamlets, like a wonderful cascade, to be swallowed by the next wave. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific

The bath was a remarkable feature—a natural stone basin, under the shadow of a great rock, fed by the clearest streamlet and sheltered from view by a heavy bit of curtain, was our bathing-place. Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak

It was these streamlets which cut the side canyons and left standing between them the bold promontories of the rim. The Book of the National Parks

This is the unity which lives in my symphonies—numberless streamlets meandering on, in endless variety of shape, but all diverging into one common bed. Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864

Then he laid his master's body upon the streamlet's brink, to wash away the blood. Burl

In fact that undecided, feeble-minded streamlet totally "demoralized" the whole hillside, and with its vagaries I had to contend at every step of my way. Little Brothers of the Air

She roved along the smiling bank which fringed the stream until the setting sun dyed with the richest purple the rocky pinnacles in the distance, and made the streamlet glow like a golden flood. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf

Its exquisite fresh purity made James feel pure also, and like a little child he wandered over the undulating earth, broken by the tortuous courses of the streamlets of winter. The Hero

A broken willow barred her way after a time, and she climbed up on its swaying trunk and let her feet dangle over the frozen streamlet below. The Wind Before the Dawn

Eleanor had never heard it from them before; now somehow each rushing streamlet, with its bright leap over obstacles and its joyous dash onward in its course, sounded the same note. The Old Helmet, Volume I

Work on while yet the sun doth shine, thou man of strength and will, The streamlet ne'er doth useless glide by clicking watermill; Nor wait until to-morrow's light beams brightly on thy way. One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed

My second is a shadowed place Of forest bloom and song, Where mosses creep o'er the rock's stern face, Vines climb and swing in wildest grace, And a streamlet laughs along. Stories of Many Lands

The streamlet now is frozen, The nightingales are fled, 5 The cornfields are deserted, And every rose is dead. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature

This course was, no doubt, artificial, and the water ran more rapidly in it than it did in the neighbouring streamlets. The Vicar of Bullhampton

Take twenty square feet of snow with a streamlet through the centre, and we have an epitome of geological processes and conditions. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year

And with his sound leg, he leaped across the streamlet. Laboulaye's Fairy Book

The streamlets were rippling gaily in the noontide sun; far off on the yellow common a solitary angler was whipping the stream—quite an unusual figure in the lonely landscape. Vixen, Volume II.

Running water.—Brooks, creeks, rain, and the tiny streamlets on the hills all tell us how soil is carried from place to place. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study

Ere long our feet sank into a quantity of liquid mud, and I discovered a slender streamlet of limpid water oozing out between two rocks. Adventures of a Young Naturalist

An Anglo-Saxon word still in use for a water-course, or streamlet which rises high with floods. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.

With his ear close to, but not touching the ground, he distinctly caught a rippling sound in the streamlet which flowed so near. Camp-fire and Wigwam

The new castle rose on the eastern bank of the Thames, broken here into a number of small streamlets, one of which served as the deep moat which encircled its walls. Stray Studies from England and Italy

In the course of a few months nearly forty thousand persons were scattered along the banks of the streamlet where the handsome streets of Bendigo now stand. History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890

Under the foliage of sarsaparilla our companion was kneeling down and catching in his hands a little streamlet of limpid water, which was trickling from between two rocks. Adventures of a Young Naturalist

The streamlet or channel which runs through the silt or sand at low-water in tidal ports; a term principally used on our southern shores. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.

Polly faintly screamed when the basin overturned and the mustard water ran in numerous streamlets across the waxed wood and center rug. Polly's Business Venture

Down their precipitous sides clothed with the richest green rushed innumerable streamlets to swell the largest and most rapid rivulet on the island, which watered the whole extent of this luxuriant valley. A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1

In the evening Cook, Banks, and other gentlemen took the pinnace and rowed up the streamlet. History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890

The rippling waters of a little streamlet glide softly upon its way through lovely banks of sweet green moss. Daisy Ashford: Her Book

A streamlet of water that flows in winter and dries up in summer. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.

It was with her as with Whittier's sweet Quakeress: "For all her quiet life flowed on As meadow streamlets flow, Where fresher green reveals alone The noiseless ways they go." Daughters of the Puritans A Group of Brief Biographies

So did the streamlet that was running along so fast. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown)

Occasionally they came to dense shade, and moss, and black shadow, and low sweet shrubs a few inches high, and the tinkle of a tiny streamlet. The Adventures of Bobby Orde

It caused him to remember the love song of the birds, the music of a streamlet, as it murmured its way down a valley near his old home. The Day of Judgment

In that case the "silver streamlet" may be identified as the Caia. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2

Then, as he stopped a second to step over a little streamlet that oozed along at his feet, all at once he became aware how still it was. Wood Magic A Fable

So I got off my horse, and washed myself in a streamlet that trickled beside the road. Roger Trewinion

From slight depressions in the brows of the overhanging cliffs, streamlets leaped hundreds of feet in silvery recklessness, falling in feathery foam by our side. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851.

The wood is searched from side to side, No distant spot remains untried, No lilied pool, no streamlet where The lotus buds are fresh and fair. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse

At the foot of a little hill covered with old and shady cypress trees, gushes out a spring, which bursts out into a number of streamlets, all of different sizes. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2

The larks were not here, nor the swallows, nor the rooks; the streamlet at his feet went on without a murmur; and the breeze did not come down into the hollow. Wood Magic A Fable

They had just now begun to drop off, and streamlets of blood were running down from him in every direction. The Three Midshipmen

Every now and then I caught glimpses of the river, now gradually widening as it was joined by other streamlets on either side. "Martin Of Nitendi"; and The River Of Dreams 1901

They looked on lake and streamlet, where The lotus bloom was bright and fair, Nor marched—for Ráma's hest they feared Where town or haunt of men appeared. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse

No streamlet glides to a lower level without having been first lifted to the elevation from which it springs by the power of the sun. Fragments of science, V. 1-2

The bough could not speak for the same reason that the oak could not; but it bent down towards the streamlet. Wood Magic A Fable

For instance, they had to toil on quite a mile before the narrow crack, which formed the bed of a streamlet, offered itself as a way out of the glacier valley. The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps

And now poor little Amiens has become a mere border town like our Durham, and Somme a border streamlet like our Tyne. Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens

He looked, but Sítá was not there; His cot was disolate and bare, Like streamlet in the winter frost, The glory of her lilies lost. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse

Many small streamlets, bogs and marshes, ponds and pools, are delightful to the lover of Nature, no less than to the sportsman. Chatterbox, 1906

The men huzzaed hoarsely—the horses neighed—the mules hinnied—and, in a few moments more, men, mules, and horses, were kneeling by a crystal streamlet, and drinking deeply of its sweet and refreshing waters. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness

Born among the mountains, and wedding other brooks and streamlets, uniting them in a river, clear and lovely, along whose banks children loved to play. Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet

Not yet had she learned that the living water flows the fuller for every streamlet that it fills; that the true riches are heaped the higher, the more lavish is the hand that transmits them. For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary

It is the streamlet of the church, the pious pavement, the miserable suburb of worship. En Route

The mother looked at the child and the child danced and sparkled and prattled airily along the course of the streamlet, which kept up a babble, kind, quiet, soothing, but melancholy. Tales of Fantasy and Fact

These in the shape of numerous little streamlets, flowing into the river, most of them still in freshet from the late rain. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco

Do not detain me, for I am going To where the streamlets are ever flowing. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills

The fishermen—regardless of the driving mist, which, settling on their flushing coats and sou’-westers, ran off them in streamlets—kept turning their eyes seawards, endeavouring to penetrate the increasing gloom. Won from the Waves

We could see them dashing into and across the little streamlet without making any account of it. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire

Bright shines the sun, the gentle breeze In soften'd murmurs blows, And softly through the verdant mead, The little streamlet flows. The Keepsake or, Poems and Pictures for Childhood and Youth

To guard against the admission of everything but water, lay drains deep enough to be beyond the danger of water bursting in, in streamlets. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles

The track followed the windings of a streamlet which was at that time covered with snow, and only distinguishable by the absence of bushes along its course. Wrecked but not Ruined

I never beheld a natural streamlet more exquisitely beautiful. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52

Where streamlets poured over rock outcroppings the horses slipped. Laramie Holds the Range

There is but one entrance to it visible, on the west side, at its lowest level, where the depression already mentioned runs down the slope to the south-west as the bed of a rocky streamlet. Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I

We could see, however, as we plunged through the now swollen streamlet, that the current, in its general direction, was the same with our road: it would certainly guide us to the river. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse

The creek itself was a mere streamlet which ran a short course from the mountains of the interior, brawling down a wild gully of inconsiderable extent. Wrecked but not Ruined

They only stopped once more to quench their thirst at a streamlet which was rushing impetuously down the rocks, and a little below them foamed over the precipice into a white and noisy cataract. Julian Home

For three days, our path coasted the southern edge of a mountain range, whose declivities and valleys were filled with rivers, brooks, and streamlets, affording abundant irrigation to fields teeming with vegetable wealth. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver

They stepped out into the dark—for night had fallen—and plashed along the flagged path which glimmered like a white streamlet between the dark turves. The Nebuly Coat

Insignificant as the streamlet is in itself, it yet forms, because of the width of its valley and the ten rather large lakes in it, a locality peculiarly well fitted for defense. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915

We live in His life.—The tiny streamlet of our being has joined His, is merged in it, and flows on together with it, to the great ocean of eternity. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.

It is only in the wet season that the streamlets flow, for Bechuanaland is intensely dry. Impressions of South Africa

For six days more, our path led over hill and dale, and through charming valleys, fed by gentle streamlets that nourished the vigorous vegetation of a mountain land. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver

Here and there about the springs and at the heads of the streamlets the firs appear to stand back, making room for green meadows brightened with a profusion of flowers. The Western United States A Geographical Reader

As bell of lily white, In streamlet mirror'd bright, All quiv'ring with delight, Is my love to me— My love to me. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

Yet it was not that Nature had shed o'er the scene Her purest of crystal and brightest of green; 'Twas not her soft magic of streamlet or hill, Oh! English Songs and Ballads

Lonely to the sea-breeze blowing, Oft I chant my love-lorn strain, To the streamlet sweetly flowing, Murmur oft a lover's pain. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

The site is very agreeable, with streamlets of water tinkling among trees by the roadside. Byeways in Palestine

Will ye despise the streamlets Upon the mountain side; Ye broad and mighty rivers, On sweeping to the tide? The Liberty Minstrel

Wilt thou, beside thy native Rhone, E'er for our distant streamlets sigh? The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

There would then be but a streamlet of blood where now there is going to be a great river. The Long Roll

Once more in the Highlands I wander alone, Where the thistle and heather are bonnie and blown; By mountain and streamlet, by cavern and glen, Where echo repeats the sweet wood-notes again. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

The paternal house was near the river, and by the side of the streamlet called Walbrook, since covered over, but which then flowed in the open air. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance

He began to walk towards the town, and Mr. Heard, with his legs wide apart and his arms held stiffly from his body, waddled along beside him, Two little streamlets followed. Short Cruises

When he came to one of the innumerable streamlets that caught the land in a net of silver, he removed his coarse shoes and stockings, and waded it. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia

The streamlet should run through the land of them with whom we are righteously at war. The Long Roll

Of the streamlet, every murmur Sweetly swells the song of peace, Chanting, with each vocal charmer, Joys that bloom and wars that cease. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

So, noblest of the noble, go Through regions echoing thy name; And even on me, thy friend, shall flow Some streamlet from thy river of fame. Ionica

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. Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines

At a short distance from the spot where the sportsmen stood, the streamlet already alluded to mingled its waters with a broad river, which, a few miles farther down, flows into James’s Bay. Ungava

Wooden fences stretched across the way, streamlets presented themselves, here and there gaped a ravine, ragged and deep. The Long Roll

The forked streamlet tumbled over the precipice and descended into the dark pool below in the form of two tiny silver threads. Twice Bought

That age was as a neutral vale 'Twixt uplands of tumultuous strife, And turning from the sects to hail Composure and a graceful life, Here, where the fern-clad streamlet flows, Boconnoc's guests ensured repose. Ionica

They came up with him in a short time at bay under a mimosa-tree by the side of a streamlet. The Settler and the Savage

I. "A pebble on the streamlet scant Has turned the course of many a river; A dewdrop on the baby plant Has warped the giant oak forever." Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power

On the inland side it ran beneath a bluff; on the other a rail fence rimmed a twelve-foot embankment dropping to a streamlet and a wide field where the corn stood in shocks. The Long Roll

A moment later, and these made a quick silent rush over the clearing to gain the slight shelter of the shrubs that fringed the streamlet. Twice Bought

At last they came to a sluggish streamlet, the headwaters of the Kankakee. French Pathfinders in North America

The disembodied spirits of man and beast return as the clouds to renew the young streamlets of infancy.... Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution

“Better to have shed a few streamlets then than the rivers which may have to flow should the tyrant gain the throne,” answered Stephen. Roger Willoughby A Story of the Times of Benbow

Presently, trailing their feet, they returned to the streamlet and their companions in misfortune. The Long Roll

I don’t suppose this bit of a streamlet keeps like this. Marcus: the Young Centurion

That was formed by building a strong stone wall across a hollow streamlet; this was made by raising this great embankment right across the valley here and stopping the stream that ran through it. Patience Wins War in the Works

He pointed through the trees at where the streamlet widened into the little creek where they had first landed, and Nic rubbed his eyes, refusing to believe in what he saw. Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land

"A pebble on the streamlet scant Has turned the course of many a river." Pushing to the Front

Ocean, lake, streamlet, was separately interrogated, 'How much delicious food do you contain? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866

Through its midst the streamlet meanders above, issuing out of the timber, and below again entering it. The Lone Ranche

Beside the streamlet seated, mark how life glides on: That sign, how swift each moment goes, to me’s enough. Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources

The rain water ran down a sloping piece of ground in a tiny channel it had made; the streamlet was very muddy, and at first it was thought that all the soil was washed away. Lessons on Soil

We now came to the end of our road; and alighting, we tied our steeds to the willows and alders scattered along the streamlet's bank. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852

Out where all the winds are blowing, Where the free, bright streamlet's flowing Leap and laugh and race and run Like a child that's full of fun!— A Jolly Jingle-Book

It is true that of diminutives very many still survive, in all our four terminations of such, as ‘hillock’, ‘streamlet’, ‘lambkin’, ‘gosling’; but those which have perished are many more. English Past and Present

The Ahr, in summer a rippling streamlet and in winter a rushing torrent, falls into the Rhine about twenty miles below Coblenz. Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines

These are the marsh marigolds: there were two places where she gathered them, one beside the streamlet flowing through the 'Mash,' a meadow which was almost a water-meadow; and the other inside a withy-bed. Round About a Great Estate

A beautiful place for our pic-nic—a mossy log or two by the streamlet, and a delicious greensward. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852

"A pebble in the streamlet scant Has turned the course of many a river: A dewdrop on the baby plant Has warped the giant oak forever." How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune

And the tree becomes literally a fountain, of which the springing streamlets are clothed with new-woven garments of green tissue, and of which the silver spray stays in the sky,—a spray, now, of leaves. Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers

Well, I have drank a little"—and I glanced at the streamlet—"but a cup of d'Arbois now, or even some white Rochecorbon, would be nectar. Orrain A Romance

Green flags hide and almost choke the shallow mouth of a streamlet that joins the brook coming from the woods. Round About a Great Estate

Teals do not like to place the nest flat on the earth, and it is generally put on the ground rather above the marshes or streamlets, a hollow being scraped under a small bush. Chatterbox, 1905.

The essential character of Scotland is that of a wild and thinly inhabited rocky country, not sublimely mountainous, but beautiful in low rock and light streamlet everywhere; with sweet copsewood and rudely growing trees. Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871

Thornhill is a very pretty place, with a neat church and a dell, in which a river must formerly have meandered, but where now a streamlet runs to join Lake Ontario. Canada and the Canadians Volume I

And gently led them by the crystal streamlets, Bade them on dewdrops feast, And showed them where the silver moon was rising To light them from the east. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1

I have not had a word with you since we sat by the brink of your artificial streamlet last Saturday afternoon; and that, speaking in round numbers, was a million years ago. The Lady Paramount

Who can help admiring the beautiful Lady Fern, which seems to be most at home when growing near a streamlet or pond? Chatterbox, 1905.

And now a little fish jumped in the streamlet; and the splash, trifling as it was, with which he fell back on the quiet surface, half startled me. Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago

The effects of iron ore, producing very manifest changes of hue, were everywhere seen in trickling drops and streamlets down the sides. The Annals of the Poor

At this the streamlet, from which she drew the water, asked: "Why do you break your pitcher, my little girl?" Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1

"I wonder!" he questioned a third time when he drank from the streamlet and sought its source, finding it at last in the enchanted walnut. Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know

O'er mountain and valley Morn gladly did gleam; The streamlets danced gaily Beneath its bright beam; The daisies were springing To life at my feet; The woodlands were ringing With melody sweet. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

And in he went, jumping a narrow streamlet into a point of thicket, through which he drove by main force. Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago

The arched room, of which the projecting window with three lights overlooks the streamlet below, is known as the Earl's Chamber. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway

"Ah, then," said the streamlet, "now must I begin to flow." Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1

This was immediately agreed to, and they took their seats on a moss-grown rock, a short distance from which a little streamlet descended in a murmuring cascade. Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan

Now recollection's airy train Shoots through my heart with pleasing pain, And streamlet, mountain, rock, or plain, Like friends appear, That, lang, lang lost, now found again, Are doubly dear. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

He must lay his lion asleep in St. Jerome's study beside his tame partridge and easy slippers; lead the appeased river by alternate azure promontories, and restrain its courtly little streamlets with margins of marble. Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870

When it was done the place showed no sign of the intruder, only the whispering of the streamlet told that its course was changed and it was feeling for a new channel. The Emigrant Trail

In another five minutes they dashed down a steep descent, at whose foot a streamlet, swelled now into a rushing stream, five or six feet wide, was running. Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower

The broad river in its bowels was reduced to something like a trickling streamlet. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon

Immediately within the embankment, on the right side of the streamlet, is the empty tower or by-wash, that dismal monument of culpable negligence. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852

Mountain, no pomp of waving woods hast thou, That deck with varied shade thy hoary brow; No sunny meadows at thy feet are spread, No streamlets sparkle o'er their pebbly bed! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan

There had once been water here for the grasses, and thin-leafed plants grew rank about the rock's base, then outlined in sere decay what had evidently been the path of a streamlet. The Emigrant Trail

Out where a fresher breeze is blowing, Where there is laughter in every streamlet flowing, Where there's more of reaping and less of sowing, That's where the West begins. Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans"

By these hornbeam trees a streamlet flows out of the copse, crossed at the hedge by a pole, to prevent cattle straying in. Nature Near London

If the streamlet discharges into a pool, we find the tiny representative of deltas, which form such an important feature on the coast line where large rivers enter seas or lakes. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography

Where streamlets deep o’er rocky cliffs Form cataracts so lofty? The Poetry of Wales

On the left or western side of the road the Akankon ridge is subtended by a hollow, the valley of a streamlet in rainy weather. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative

The flow’r-enamoured busy bee The rosy banquet loves to sip; Sweet the streamlet’s limpid lapse To the sun-brown’d Arab’s lip;— But, Delia, on thy balmy lips Let me, no vagrant insect, rove! The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham

There are a few inches, a narrow strip of sand, beside the streamlet under this pole. Nature Near London

He arose With joy, and stepping to the streamlet near, Scoops up the water in his palms, and bows 19 In suppliance to the Gods, and burdens Heaven with vows. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor

O Virtue, come waft me on thy silken pinions, To where purer streamlets still flow, Where summer, unceasing, pervades thy dominions, Nor stormy bleak wint'ry winds blow. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century

Women's washings were seen everywhere along the road, and in some places oozings of iron from the soil heavily charged the streamlets. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative

That man shall flourish like the trees Which by the streamlets grow; The fruitful top is spread on high, And firm the root below. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham

The interior is mountainous, intersected by marshes, and abounding with streamlets and lakes. The Moravians in Labrador

Fixt home hath no one; by the streamlet's side, Or in dark groves, or dewy meads we stray, Where living waters through the pastures glide. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor

Water, in its various forms of streamlet, rain, or river, is felt as an universal gift of heaven, not as an inheritance of a particular spot of earth. Giotto and his works in Padua An Explanatory Notice of the Series of Woodcuts Executed for the Arundel Society After the Frescoes in the Arena Chapel

The path crossed several streamlets trending north to the Aunábé, and a bad mud which had seen corduroy in its better days. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative

In vain ye flaunt in summer’s pride, ye groves; Thou crystal streamlet with thy flowery shore, Ye woodland choir that chant your idle loves, Ye cease to charm—Eliza is no more! The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham

At ten o'clock he started out with his party, followed the road by the side of the Crorrere river--here a mere streamlet--and halted in a wood about five miles from Felletin. In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain

Onward she went, down to the edge of the brook, then turned to the right up the course of the streamlet. The Delight Makers

It had come down clear and unimpeded from its primal mountain source in Ararat, and grew from a puny streamlet to a vast perennial river, generation after generation flowing on ceaselessly. The Last Man

Severely hustled and horribly shaken up, we ran down the little valley of the Avin streamlet. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative

According to a fundamental principle of the Lutherans, we depend not merely on the irrigating streamlets that originate in the fountain to which we have access, but we rather drink from that fountain itself. American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann

He broke the ice on the streamlet's brink. The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D.

It sounded as though this second voice had issued from the very waters of the streamlet. The Delight Makers

Quite near, David found a streamlet that trickled down from the snow line, and to a grassy plot on the edge of this he dragged a quantity of dry wood and built a fire. The Courage of Marge O'Doone

The French lords and ladies thought to return to Tarbes as easily as they had come, but they found the streamlets so deep as to be scarcely fordable. The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.)

We gaze upon the streamlet, As o'er the bridge we lean; We watch its hurried ripples We mark its golden green. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life

At the foot of a little hill, covered with old and shady cypress trees, a spring gushes and bursts into a number of streamlets of various size. On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914

Flowers, verdure, streamlets, all united to form a picture of perfect harmony. Great Violinists And Pianists

The nightingale with sweet refrain By every brook and streamlet trilled. Bearslayer A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse

The picture of Narcissus represents Narcissus first and foremost; then it brings in a solitude and a streamlet. The Wonders of Pompeii

Faster and faster sped the train on its pathway over streamlet and valley, meadow and woodland, until at last the Queen City, with its numerous spires, was left far behind. Tempest and Sunshine

The ripple of the streamlet in these palace halls revived a half-forgotten music of the heart that had once responded to the gurgle of a brook. Atmâ A Romance

Down from its snowy glittering sides a thousand streamlets blended in larger streams combining in the Jordan, which flowed through marshes and Lake Merom until it entered Gennesaret near their home. A Life of St. John for the Young

It is a streamlet of discarded sin, flowing constantly from Purgatory,149 whence wickedness is washed down to its original Satanic source. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920

Again she intrusted her ship to the crystal streamlet; but, alas! the weight of the stones carried it straight to the bottom. Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C.

By the side of a little streamlet, which took its source from the river Meuse, and dividing it east by west, stands the village of Domremy. Joan of Arc

Thee, too, 'mong storied founts I'll place, Singing the oak that slants the steep, Above the hollowed home of rock From which thy prattling streamlets leap. Horace and His Influence

This is not a district of running rills: we crossed three sluggish streamlets knee deep. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868

There is a giant yew tree in the midst that would hide six men in its hollow trunk, and a laughing streamlet circles well-nigh round it. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot

Along the streamlets which may be found in the numerous small valleys we met with the slender ash trees, beside alders, shrubs, Euonymus with brilliant red capsules, willows, etc. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan

The house which now exists on the site of her birthplace was built in 1481, but the little streamlet still takes its course at its foot. Joan of Arc

In the parish of Dean Prior is a narrow wooded valley, watered by a streamlet, that in two or three places falls into cascades of considerable beauty. Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850

While winter seized the streamlets That fled along the ground, And fast in chains of crystal The truant murmurers bound. Poems

He circled round it, clambering over fallen trees and forcing his way through thorny vines, till he saw, amid roots of alder-bushes, a streamlet flow from the lakeside. Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) The Romance of Reality

Stretching before him he saw the valley he had remarked the evening before, with the streamlet winding like a silver ribbon in a green flounce. The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest

The faces are thoroughly Leonardesque, and through an open window in the background we clearly see the streamlet flowing between rocky shores. Barbara's Heritage Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters

There are nightingales that sing harmoniously near the coolness of the small streamlets, repeating their melodious trills, and gifted with most nimble throats. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.

Oh silvery streamlet of the fields, That flowest full and free! Poems

Certain streamlets of water issue from the springs of those mountains, from which people drink; and these waters are so cold and thin that, if one does not eat sufficient, they do him much harm. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 1621-1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.

Nature I court in her sequestered haunts, By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove or cell, Where the poised lark his evening ditty chaunts, And Health, and Peace, and Contemplation dwell. The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance

A red lantern, on a level with the dam of the Mint, cast a streamlet of blood, as it were, into the water. His Masterpiece

In his recollection a bridge had here crossed the streamlet. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.

Still glides the gentle streamlet on, With shifting current new and strange; The water that was here is gone, But those green shadows do not change. The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

For that purpose they have some small streamlets near at hand, with two or three hollows in their beds. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 1621-1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.

A quiet spot of shade and flickering sunshine—a streamlet, and a rural bridge. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844

His lordly ships of ice Glisten in the sun; On each side, like pennons wide, Flashing crystal streamlets run. The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics

This little streamlet, therefore, is a silver thread connecting two great oceans three thousand miles apart. John L. Stoddard's Lectures, Vol. 10 (of 10) Southern California; Grand Canon of the Colorado River; Yellowstone National Park

To Malkin Tower the word is sent, Forth to her task the beldame goes, And where she points the streamlet flows; Its customary bed forsaking, Another distant channel making. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest

Turning the corner of the house, they forded the streamlet previously mentioned, crossed the valley, and ascended by a narrow horse-path the opposite hill, leaving the canebrake some distance away to the left. Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life

The second Sort is, where there is the Addition of the Scene; as suppose we give the Picture of the fair Shepherdess, sitting on the Banks of a pleasant streamlet. A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717)

Starting anew, they came to the streamlet that fed the pond and a short tramp beyond it Jabez spied another surveyor's stake. The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825

Across the plain they encircled a river ran in loops, and from the crag at the edge of which she stood a streamlet emerged and took a brave leap down the hill to join it. Lady Good-for-Nothing

Down-wimpling and murmuring there 'twixt two dewy hills winds a streamlet, Like a long, flaxen ringlet of hair on the breast of a maid in her slumber. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems

Peace at last; no roll of cart-wheel, nor mutter of sullen voices in the back shop; but curlew-cry in space of heaven, and welling of bell-toned streamlet by its shadowy rock. Selections From the Works of John Ruskin

No grass for forage; several very small streamlets were passed en route, so that a small party might halt anywhere. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

A tiny streamlet wandering strayed Beneath our garden wall, Where one of my forefathers made A mimic waterfall. Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century

Wandering by the streamlet flowing Where we played in hours of glee, Hear its murmurs coming, going, Tell of joys that used to be. The Mountain Spring and Other Poems

With her small white hand on the rail, she glided along the wooden bridge, or tripped from stone to stone across the shallow streamlet. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader

Down the swift streamlet she danced laughingly, and made herself once more bitter with the sea. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series

There is a streamlet here. 18th.—Detained by bad weather, which threatened the whole of yesterday. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

They have never seen the country, never heard the streamlet flow: London pavements, London darkness, London squalor,—these they know. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 23, 1892

This lesson should these scenes impart As on the road of life we go, To do our duty and take heart, As flowers bloom and streamlets flow. The Mountain Spring and Other Poems

An hour afterward his comrades bear the boy to a sheltered spot on the other side of the streamlet, and then the first word of complaint escapes him. From Canal Boy to President Or the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield

Not far off ran a pretty streamlet, looking clear and bright; but here also in its murmuring waters, the sister heard the words— "Who dares to drink of me, Turned to a stag will be." Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know

It is curious that the streamlets, and streams about Gundamuck have not worn themselves half as deep channels as those about Khuggur, although no appreciable difference is apparent in the strata. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

"The low reeds bent by the streamlet's side, And hills to the thunder peal replied; The lightning burst on its fearful way While the heavens were lit in its red array." Elsie's Womanhood

Before its glance the wind-phantoms slink away in fear and the now quiet streamlet smiles through its tears. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880

Blackbirds played hide-and-seek beneath the boughs, blue and white violets hid in the tall grass around the boles, and the spaces between were carpeted with daisies to the edge of a streamlet. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales

A tiny streamlet trickled its way over a bed of decayed vegetation often meandering through a dense growth of wiry reeds in a channel set well below the general level. The Man in the Twilight

Distance fifteen miles: general direction S.S.W. Passed many streamlets, and continued for some time close to the Endaw, which is still a largish river, apparently deep, with a sluggish stream. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

Another streamlet, lagging a little, ran shining down the other track, stopped, rose, and creeping slowly to the middle of the road, spread into a second gleaming patch. Roof and Meadow

The deep water below the stone did not give him back himself as had done the streamlet five days before. Lewis Rand

Over the streamlet sang thrushes and goldfinches and bull-finches innumerable, and their voices shook down the blossom like a fall of pink snow, which threatened to cover even the daisies. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales

In a trice the frost was started and the thawed streamlets dancing madly on the white-hot surface beneath. A Daughter of the Snows

We passed many streamlets particularly during the latter half of the march. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

As I watched, a silvery streamlet broke away and came running down the wheel track. Roof and Meadow

Down a fair streamlet crystal-clear and pleasant I went a fishing all alone one day, And spied three maidens bathing there at play. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series

First came thy passion's flood and poured around her As when from melted snow a streamlet overflows; Thou hast therewith so filled and drowned her, That now thy stream all shallow shows. Faust

Compressed Air Power.—A hundred years ago every little brook and streamlet was utilised for producing the power required by our local mill-owners, gun-barrel rollers, &c. Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically

The south side has a streamlet running along it outside the fence, for the supply of water. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

Away from the worry and jar of his neighbours Where moor-tinted streamlets flow down from the hill. From John O'Groats to Land's End

At seven or eight miles' distance another streamlet was reached, named the Mamabamba. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873

O'er the stones, the grasses, flowing Stream and streamlet seek the hollow. Faust

Not many so we slew, but a number tripped over in the rush were trampled underfoot, or threw themselves in the streamlet's bed, wherein afterwards they were speedily slain. The Fall of the Grand Sarrasin Being a Chronicle of Sir Nigel de Bessin, Knight, of Things that Happed in Guernsey Island, in the Norman Seas, in and about the Year One Thousand and Fifty-Seven

The boundary nullah is a mere streamlet: it runs between two ridges of the Patkaye: its course being about ESE. and WNW. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

But what are all these attractions of that spirit-home, compared with Jesus there as the crowning glory of them all! other things are stars and streamlets. The Christian Home

Salevao replied that if they got a bamboo he would send them a streamlet through it, and hence the origin of springs. Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before

She laughed at her sixteen years with a fine-drawn laugh that flowed on with rhythmic trilling like a streamlet. Abbe Mouret's Transgression

He had entered at the lower mouth of the quarries and was proceeding to the northern exit, whence the little streamlet that fed the pools came through a narrow pass. The Red Redmaynes

Beautiful fields on every side, with streamlets, rich verdure, poplars, willows, and bold mountain scenery, which contrasts most favourably with the dreary barren tracts to which we have been accustomed. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

Currently was it reported that during Walter Hamilton's vacations the winding footpath, which followed the course of the streamlet down to the mill-pond, was trodden more frequently than usual. Homestead on the Hillside

"It will go soon," he said, referring to the miniature streamlet. At a Winter's Fire

Lastly, on the left the river flowed through a vast stretch of meadowland, where it parted into four streamlets which winded fitfully beneath the rushes, between the willows, behind the taller trees. Abbe Mouret's Transgression

The above arch is about a mile from the village, and crosses a deep dell, called Causey Burne, down which an insignificant streamlet finds its sinuous course. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 578, December 1, 1832

The soil of the plain good and deep, as instanced by ravines, and the deep beds of streamlets. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

He broke the ice on the streamlet's brink, And gave the leper to eat and drink. An English Grammar

The water gushed forth and formed a streamlet. After London Or, Wild England

The water in the one streamlet flowed to the Atlantic, that in its fellow to the Pacific. Lady Merton, Colonist

Now silvery streamlets, from the mountain stealing, Dance joyously the verdant vales along; Cold fear no more the songster's tongue is sealing, Down in the thick dark grove is heard his song. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times

Abundance of Loaches or Balitora in the streamlets arising from the springs. 13th.—Proceeded to Julraiz, eight and a half miles, having passed a waterfall, as well as abundance of people going to Jallalabad. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

The island of Manhattan, upon which the city of New York is now built, consisted then of a series of forest-crowned hills, interspersed with crystal streamlets and many small but beautiful lakes. Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam

But still they rambled on, and soon found themselves in a rocky dell through the midst of which ran a streamlet with ripple and foam and a continual voice of inarticulate joy. Twice Told Tales

But she stepped across the tiny streamlet without giving him her hand. Lady Merton, Colonist

Their courtiers were the green trees, the shade and the sunlight, the streamlet and the spring; flowers, grass, leaf, and blossom, which 085refreshed their eyes. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times

The young man made his way hastily across the water to a little bower beneath the western bank, overhung with birch and fern, half islanded by the swift rush of the mountain streamlet. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895

I am sitting sad and lonely Where she often sat with me, And the voice I hear is only Of the silvery streamlet's glee. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850

Nor does the poet "Refuse to follow farther yet I' the backwardness, repine if tree and flower, Mountain or streamlet were my dwelling-place Before I gained enlargement, grew mollusc." Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher

Now there bubbled beside them where they stood A fountain of waters sweet and good: 50 The youth to the streamlet's brink drew near Saying, 'Ambrose, thou maker of creeds, look here!' The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell

The charm of the idyllic is in the lines: But these between, a silver streamlet glides.... The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times

Songs of birds and streamlet rippling, Meadow, flowers, and leafy tree, Make of earth a land of beauty— What indeed must heaven be? Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians

I have not the courage to follow this streamlet back into the devil's heart. A Short History of Monks and Monasteries

Even the little streamlets and branches danced and jumped along the pebbly beds, while the minnows sported and frollicked under the shining ripples. "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show

The heart within him was ashes and dust; He parted in twain his single crust, He broke the ice on the streamlet's brink, And gave the leper to eat and drink. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell

And the streamlets of the mountains Shout to him, and cry out 'Brother'! The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times

The trail led him first across a stretch of stump-dotted wet land with pools and rounded rises, green new grass, and trickling streamlets of recently melted snow. The Rules of the Game

As our car-wheels dash across these streamlets they splash up the water on each side into sparkling diamonds and on every hand come up the sweet scents of growing, living things. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter

The water in the channel was stagnant, swift streamlets rushed in from the tules on the north, and rushed out again on the south. Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico

The men hurried along the road to seek shelter under a bluff in our front, along the base of which ran a small streamlet. History of Kershaw's Brigade

He did but little drawing, and in the few sketches that remain of that summer there is evidence that his mind was far away from its old love of mountains and of streamlets. The Life of John Ruskin

The men helped her to a streamlet some hundreds of yards away. The Rules of the Game

With no further words the fair maiden led him southward towards the sea cliffs, skipping over the streamlets that crossed their path, and passing over wide stretches of barren moorland. The Thirsty Sword

Her home—'tis far away from her, Its quiet porch is lone, And the sunny wind no more shall stir Its streamlet's silver tone. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 366, April 18, 1829

The gliding fish that takes his play In shady nook of streamlet cool, Thinks not how waters pass away, And summer dries the pool. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 323, July 19, 1828

Now is the time for thee to die, When vale and streamlet frozen lie. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2

At the nearest streamlet he washed his face, combed his hair, brushed off his clothes. The Rules of the Game

The wide flood of Emerson's discourse has a hundred rivers and thousands of streamlets for its tributaries. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The events that intervened all passed away, and Ella was again the same maiden that stood with me so long ago by the streamlet's side on Walburga's eve. Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick Gleaned from Actual Observation and Experience During a Residence Of Seven Years in That Interesting Colony

The blue smoke upward curling, The silver streamlet purling, The meadow wildflowers furling Their leaflets to repose: All woo me from the world And its woes. Poems

The streamlet, frozen on its way, To feed the marble Founts of Kings, Now, loosen'd by the vernal ray, Upon its path exulting springs, As doth this bounding heart to thee, My ever blissful Maami! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 556, July 7, 1832

Under the influence of this strange effect a deathly stillness seemed to fall, in spite of the bawling and roaring of the river, and the trickle of many streamlets hurrying down from the surrounding hills. The Rules of the Game

The night was so mild and beautiful, that we did not want the tents at all, but lay down on the bank of a streamlet, beneath the shade of a large tree. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy

Others are like pools at the base of a hill—they receive the inflow of every descending streamlet or shower, and stagnate into selfishness. Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography

To send the river on its way, With ever deepening strength and force, Oh! think how long 'twas let to play, A happy streamlet, near its source. Poems

A silver thread of streamlet, swift but shallow, runs noisily through the meadows beside the town and loses itself in the Chad, about a mile and a half farther eastward. In the Days of My Youth

She thought to herself that here was the beginning of a great career—the moment when the streamlet finds its bed, and enters upon its true and destined course. Fenwick's Career

Bright-leaved autumn flowers lie in masses on the rich brown earth, and dainty streamlets come rushing downward in little sculptured troughs. The Italians

The little streamlet, lately all crystal and sunshine, was now turbid and bloody. Overland

That Source from which, meandering down, A thousand streamlets circle now; For then the monarch's glorious crown But girt the most rapacious brow. Poems

单词	streamlet
例句	streamlet Down lower, where an Indian Creek feeder streamlet crossed under the road and the valley floor’s marshy fields began, at least a dozen bats in the air actually frightened him. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Here it came out of the rock in a little falling streamlet, and flowed across the path, and turning south ran away swiftly to be lost among the dead stones. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z At the edge of a small moss-lined streamlet he paused, listening. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We could distinguish no streamlet, no jetty, and all distances seemed one. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z By the time they had shrugged off their coats, the glacier streamlet that was still covered by a thin layer of ice in the morning had turned into a bubbling stream of melting water. The world’s melting glaciers are yielding up their secrets too quickly 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Ricks nudges the bow of the boat into the mouth of a narrow streamlet shooting off the main creek. Making a comeback: Biologist finds herring in NC creek 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z I know the trees they passed under, the streamlets they gathered water from. Opinion \| An attack on one hiker is an attack on us all 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Elidorus! our time is up; we must haste over other mountains and valleys, over streamlets and rivers, for we have a long distance yet to go, and but a short time to travel it in.” The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales 2012-04-27T02:00:33.040Z A really good-sized streamlet of clear water wound here and there, with quiet pools, and bright tumbling little cascades. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z Lower down the streamlet formed a small lake, on which a boat was kept, and where Bruno was wont to row his wife, and try to teach her unskilful hand to guide the oar. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z It is unnecessary to mention the names of the numerous marshy lakes which exist, especially in Friesland and Groningen, and are connected with rivers or streamlets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z This is the unity which lives in my Symphonies—numberless streamlets meandering on, in endless variety of shape, but all diverging into one common bed. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z Caltha.—Showy marsh plants, adapted for the margins of lakes, streamlets or artificial bogs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z The dark-colored liquor poured over the table-cloth, and, dividing into numerous little streamlets, diverged in every direction from the parent source. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z Here a little streamlet had its birth, gushing forth from the rock itself in cold purity. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z But later in the day, when the tedium of inaction had become unbearable, he started to explore the lower course of the streamlet on whose bank he had slept. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z But, to all appearance, more rain fell during the night, for when the household rose at daybreak, the hills were running with water, and every little streamlet was musical. A Little Wizard 2012-02-15T03:00:38.160Z The stream which bursts from the hills is divided into innumerable streamlets, which must clothe these gardens with beauty. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z In the ponds and streamlets, beside which, in the old days, kings sauntered, the youngsters of the slums fish with bent pins or scoop with small nets for small fish. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z A wall of almost perpendicular rock rose on each side, and the streamlet leaped sheer down fifty feet into a pool; as far as he could see the chasm remained unbroken. A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti 2012-02-06T03:00:13.023Z The aged holly trees more silently, Now we are gone, stand on the silent ground; I seem to hear the streamlet floating by With a complaining, melancholy sound. The Isle of Palms and Other Poems 2012-02-04T03:00:15.103Z To many charming byways amid the streamlets and the meadows and the gentle slopes of this southern Cambridgeshire the seven highways out of Cambridge will successively conduct us. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z To where some crystal streamlet flows: There by its mossy banks prepare The pillow of his long repose. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z This route to Brighton is singularly rural and lovely, and particularly beautiful in the way of copses and wooded hollows, whence streamlets trickle away to join the river Adur. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z Each hair becomes a slender streamlet's bed, As if a rivulet from this ocean red. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z See! farther down the streamlet, art hath framed A delicate cascade! The Isle of Palms and Other Poems 2012-02-04T03:00:15.103Z She loved the murmur of this mighty town, The lark rejoiced her from its lattice prison; A streamlet soothes her now,—the bird has flown,— Some dust is waiting there—a soul has risen. A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z The ride to his left disclosed rough ground, rocky heights cut by streamlets, and covered by heavy forest tangle, as formidable to military manœuvres of raw troops as armed battlements. From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America 2011-12-28T03:00:39.977Z As for the Father of Rivers, he becomes a dusky-gray, winding streamlet, and his largest ships are no more than flat pale decks, all the masts and rigging being foreshortened to nothing. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z They took pictures, and Elmer made sure to get one of the tree that in falling had arched the streamlet in such a remarkable way. Boy Scouts: Tenderfoot Squad or, Camping at Raccoon Lodge 2011-12-15T03:00:17.777Z Although the streamlets were all frozen, although ice was afloat in the bay, and a grey and leaden sky overhead, our boys were not sorry to land and have a look around. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z The portion of the forest which was chosen stood high over a little green and bosky glen, adown which a streamlet ran, joining the great river about a mile below. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z The Gap is a pass cut through Bull Run Mountain for the flow of a streamlet, through Occoquan Creek, to the waters of the Potomac. From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America 2011-12-28T03:00:39.977Z In this ravine was a streamlet which, however, had so worn away its rocky bed that we could hardly see it. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z The moisture only extends a few yards, gradually diminishing till the trickling streamlet is lost in the famishing soil. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Little foothills of the ridge extended downwards towards the coast, forming ridges in miniature, cut here and there by streamlets. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z Here the road again crosses a small streamlet, and then suddenly strikes boldly into the side of the mountain which is to be ascended. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z Near it is a streamlet flowing, Where old shady trees are growing; But of one alone I sing. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z For many a hillside streamlet There falls with a broken tinkle, Falling and dying, falling and dying. Poems - First Series 2011-10-28T02:00:21.917Z And he turned up by the side of the streamlet, keeping on the gravel at its side. Chronicles of Martin Hewitt 2011-10-24T02:00:16.617Z Beneath the tufted sallows the streamlet thrills With the leaping trout and the gleam of the daffodils. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z If a streamlet ran along the line, it was carefully dammed up, so as to be rendered impassible. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z Of one summer eve I ponder, When I musing chanced to wander By the streamlet's margin bright. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z But a streamlet gurgling on, But a small stone rolling, Calls up forgotten duties gone, Like a death knell tolling. Ovind A Story of Country Life in Norway 2011-10-13T02:00:43.280Z Here the ground sloped from the left down towards the right, and a tiny streamlet, a mere trickle of a foot or two wide, ran across the path. Chronicles of Martin Hewitt 2011-10-24T02:00:16.617Z "Father!" the voice like music fell, Clear as the murmuring flow Of mountain streamlet trickling down From heights of virgin snow. Elias An Epic of the Ages 2011-10-13T02:00:41.923Z And now we are up, and pause to look thankfully, fearfully back while the horses stand panting, the sweat running in streamlets over their hoofs. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Extending along it from west to east, and occupying its entire southern part, lay an oblong piece of water, into which the streamlet of the pass discharged itself. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z But the streamlet was no longer there, diverted perhaps to some other channel, and the hollow of its bed was filled up and made level with the road. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z The mighty rushing torrent is the fashion, but who can do the wimpling, dimpling streamlet? Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z And here perhaps was a rockery, with a fountain playing and a streamlet trickling away riverwards, through the greenest of grass. Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z The low hills, so characteristic of these parts, stretch themselves on either bank, unbroken except where some little streamlet forces its way by a gentle ravine through the scrubby undergrowth. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z The sun shone as brightly as now, the streamlet ran just as blithe, the air was filled, as now, with the sweet-smelling pine. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:34.720Z It brings visions of meadow and mountain, Of valley, and streamlet, and hill, When Life’s ocean but played in a fountain— Ah, would that it sparkled so still! A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z At the fourth hour of the morning we lay by the streamlet bed, two hundred paces from the robbers’ sentry post in the rocky passage. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z Meanwhile unnumbered glittering streamlets played, And hurled everywhere their waters’ sheen; That as they bickered through the sunny glade, Though restless still themselves, a lulling murmur made.” Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z There’s some,” pointing to a tall wild parsnip, or “gix,” on the verge of the streamlet. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Here the streamlet rests awhile before plunging down the steeps beyond and entering the true glen—a place of shelving banks and many trees. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z Thy green pleasant pastures, thy streamlet so clear, Old classic village! to Elia were dear— Rare child of humanity! oft have we stray’d On Sir Hugh’s pleasant banks in the cool of the shade. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z How quickly this little fountain grows into a streamlet and then to a considerable brook!—without apparently receiving the waters of any feeders. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Crouching under the waggon I watched it and saw the little streamlets, dirty and débris-laden, steal slowly on like sluggard snakes down to my feet, and winding round me, meet beyond and hasten on. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z Looking up there, the sky was blue and clear, and the sunlight fell brightly on the open space by the streamlet. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Beneath, the mass of the beech wood took on wonderful colour and the streamlet, emerging into meadows, flashed back the last glow of the sky. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z In front, and somewhat lower, a streamlet winds, fringing the sward, and across it the fir plantations begin, their dark sombre foliage hanging over the water. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Still farther the streamlet becomes a broad brook, flowing through meadows in the midst of which stands a solitary farmhouse. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z One little streamlet, I well remember, delayed the division probably two hours. Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade 2011-07-21T02:00:19.027Z But in the deep narrow channel of the streamlet there was a change—the tiny trickle of water was no longer illumined by the vertical beams, a slight slant left it to run in shadow. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z It opened up before them, a black and shadowy hollow, with little streamlets trickling through. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z The keeper now and then shoots a grebe in the mere where the streamlet widens out into a small lake, which again is bordered by water meadows. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Ever when the running brook is frozen such little spring: are free of ice, and so, too, is the streamlet for some distance. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z It is one of the most densely populated spots on the face of the earth—a seething human sea fed by streams, streamlets, and rills of immigration flowing from all the Yiddish-speaking centres of Europe. Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto 2011-07-13T02:00:17.480Z At the bottom there was a streamlet running along deep in a gully, a little pool of the clearest water to dip from, and a green sparred wicket-gate in a hawthorn hedge about the garden. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z And we heard the calling, calling, Of the screech-owl in the brake; Where the trumpet-vine hung, crawling Down the ledge, into the lake Heard the sighing streamlet falling. Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z Even moderate-sized streamlets become tainted in the latter part of the autumn by the mass of leaves they carry down, or filter through, in woodland districts. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z A streamlet that runs through a peaty field is a favourite spot. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z There was silence for a moment or two in the little shady garden, for the tinkling streamlet seemed to be at rest as well. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z The tiniest thread of a streamlet trickles down the face of the rock, losing itself in a pool beneath, which reflects, as in a mirror, cliff, and overhanging bushes, and blue sky. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z Now, Aquarella was the spirit of a pretty, sparkling streamlet, which strayed through the grounds of a mighty lord, in whose welfare she had always been interested. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z It was with difficulty, that he kept his track, fording a swift streamlet, and descending into a terrible ravine. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z Presently he sits down on the branch of an oak, with his feet dangling over a streamlet. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z The 11th Brigade, scarcely 3000 strong, followed the course of the Gu� Perray streamlet up to the northern end of the wood. The Franco-German War of 1870-71 2011-05-26T02:00:14.447Z O, hark; O, hear, My lady, dear, O'er woods and hills and streamlets flying, The winding note Of horns remote, In softest echo dying—dying. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z There are always a gallows, and a notice-board marked "No thoroughfare," on the banks of the streamlet of your life, even now that it has become a pearl-bearing brook. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z The brook from Pendarrel Park murmured along it, and a footpath, devious and unfrequented, followed the wanderings of the streamlet. Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-17T02:00:19.780Z However, she proceeded at last, and soon turned aside from the main road by a tiny streamlet. Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-16T02:00:19.270Z The streamlet ripples through the mead, beneath the maple tree; There came a maiden that stream to draw—a lovely maid was she; From the white walls of old Belgrade that maid came smilingly. An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics 2011-05-14T02:00:10.287Z Rob was not having any difficulty whatever in following the trail after the two fugitives had left the little streamlet. The Boy Scouts Under Fire in Mexico 2011-05-02T02:00:18.793Z Sancho entered the mountain pass, and left them in a pleasant spot, refreshed by a streamlet of clear water, and shaded by rocks and overhanging foliage. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z I found them about three miles from camp in a beautiful little valley covered with grass, and through which flowed a small streamlet of pure cold water. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z The little streamlets united to form larger ones, and these in turn joined their waters in still greater streams. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z The streamlet ripples through the mead, beneath the maple tree; There came a maid that stream to draw—the loveliest maid was she; From the white walls of old Belgrade that maid came smilingly. An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics 2011-05-14T02:00:10.287Z This is the “lone streamlet” so much loved by the poet, to which he addresses one of his poems: “Here, if a bard may christen thee, I’ll call thee Ribbledin.” A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z "Be it so, Lord!" said the venerable Ānanda in assent to the Blessed One; and, taking a bowl, he went down to the streamlet. The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus 2011-04-19T02:00:18.493Z Equivalent to the English suffixes -let in "streamlet," -ule in "globule," "pustule." The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z It is bounded on the south by a deep dell, with a streamlet that falls from the rock, then meanders through the recess, and disappears in its windings. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z “Linger awhile upon some bending planks That lean against a streamlet’s rushy banks, And watch intently Nature’s gentle doings: They will be found softer than the ring-dove’s cooings.” Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Farther on the cliffs diminish in height, and are furrowed by numerous streamlets, and the rugged, stony beach changes to smooth, yielding sand. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z This streamlet flowed out of the mouth of the cave and came from a lake on the top of the mountain; this accounted for its warmth to the hand which surprised us all. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z North of the gully cut down the lower hill-side by this streamlet, the hill-side of some three acres is quite steep, still partially wooded, and wholly devoted to pasturage. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z It was noticed by his staff that he was moody and irritable, very unlike his ordinary self, and that he displayed an extraordinary aversion to water, when crossing the little streamlets in the forest. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z He must have known they could not cross the swollen streamlet, or he’d never have stopped by it as he has done. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z It is backed by the Cheviot Hills, and often broken into deep dells, with little streamlets rushing down them, and weird old oaks whose withered branches are never cut off, sheltering herds of deer. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z A half-hour later, Frosty came to a streamlet, one of many that pursued their winding courses across the mountain, tumbled down it and finally poured their waters into a river. Swamp Cat 2011-03-06T03:00:20.453Z Was not Manfred, the supremely egotistical and subjective, perpetually dragging the mountain-tops and Alpine streamlets into his talk of his own troubles? The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z For us, for us alone in all the world the streamlets murmured, the breezes whispered together, the wavelets plashed musically, the blue sky glowed, the sun shone goldingly. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z Can any thing be more delightful than the waving forests, with their dense and deep green foliage, interspersed with grassy and sunny fields and murmuring streamlets, which spread all around us? The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z Then out of the hedge came two streamlets through pipes, which to me had all the beauty of waterfalls. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z When they pass certain fields, rivers, creeks, or streamlets, large trees, sugar-cane plantations and other places, they ask permission and good passage from the genii or nonos. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 2011-02-26T03:00:46.860Z It has long been reclaimed; the streamlets run in deep ditches, and some of them have been turned into canals. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. 2011-02-19T03:01:10.063Z Now the valley I perceive Where together we will go, And the streamlet watch each eve Gliding peacefully below. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z Hours and hours they kept on weeping, 'Til their tears began to flow In many trickling streamlets To the valley down below. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z A pedestal here and there supported a stone basin, from which rose a thin streamlet of water. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z They do that both on this, and many other occasions, in the fields, sugar-cane plantations, streamlets, at the foot of any large tree, more generally some calunpan,2 and in various other places. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 2011-02-26T03:00:46.860Z Leaving Calabash Wood behind us, we advanced over ground covered with manioc, potatoes, and many plants unknown to us; pleasant streamlets watered the fruitful soil, and the view on all sides was open and agreeable. The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island 2011-01-03T03:01:03.473Z A streamlet, issuing in little rills from springs on the summit of the ascent, fell in tiny cascades through woody glens and artificial grottoes till it approached the house. Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles 2011-01-01T03:00:27.980Z She led him to this dangerous place That on the streamlet's glee doth frown; The sunlight, gleaming on her face, Her wild, dark beauty seemed to crown. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z The flowing streamlet, and the murmuring rill, In ocean find a kindred spirit still. Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith 2010-12-26T03:00:20.460Z There they lay, amidst the wet spret, or on the velvet fringe of the streamlet, in all the glory of scale and fin. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 We ran along the coast while the sun rose and beautified the mountain-tops, the green slopes, gulches, and fern-clad hills sparkling with streamlets. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands But at ordinary times the water in the Lane, as much of it as there is, finds its way toward the Brom, owing to the feeding of the Grange Pond by local streamlets. Deep Moat Grange Little streamlets of water ran from the drooping edges of my hat and from my chin, water dashed in my eyes and I blinked it out. The Jonathan Papers None can tell the overwhelming sorrow, the keen agony which succeeded your absence; my only solace was to seek the streamlet and mingle my boyish tears with its limpid waters. Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851 Here where a tree and its wild liana, Leaning over the streamlet, grow, Once a nymph, like the moon'd Diana, Sat in the ages long ago. A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems Roundabout it were streamlets with pools where, in season, the mountain trout leaped and darted in shimmering flashes, and to the store one summer noon came two hungry fishermen from the lowlands. The Tempering But wherever you find a dense growth, as you do here, there you will find their roots giving out the seepage that feeds a million streamlets, and these in turn feed the great rivers. Unexplored! The ice is lumpy and broken, and the streamlets that run down to the plain are so tortuous that fifty yards without a spill is considered a good run for a toboggan. The Unveiling of Lhasa They could also perceive a small streamlet making its way through the brushwood. Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa From the clouds looked forth a living eye, and in the sound of rustling leaf and singing streamlet, spake the voices of human longing and human joy. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life Small pieces of disintegrating limestone are transported, during heavy rains, by a streamlet, to the foot of the declivity, where land shells are very abundant. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology A momentary lull in the drippy streamlet of pedestrians; she leaned out into the darkness and peered up, then down the aisle of street. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole With its mellow rays it lights a leafy willow under which a streamlet, formed by the overflow of the water that turns the mill of Chaillot, flows murmuringly by. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades Vacant baths are rare in village, None at mouth of reed-fringed streamlet. Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two O don't you remember the streamlet, Ben Bolt, Where the boys that played hookey from school Sat snug on the banks eating taffy and pie, Or bathed in the clear crystal pool. Harper's Round Table, July 30, 1895 Sir Bolt, you have oft been here; And Sir Arrow, you've often flown near; But still from pure haste All your courage would waste On the earth and the streamlet clear. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 See, it passes a stagnant pool, and the pool hails it: ‘Whither away, master streamlet?’ To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians A streamlet might be heard, but not seen, rippling along not far from the walk. Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. Often and often you will be called on to clear trail, to cut timber for trail construction or to make a footing over some ultra-tempestuous streamlet. Camp and Trail An immovable streamlet ran down its bed of carved irregularities between flowery banks and underneath a bridge formed of a single arch. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar "No trumpet-blast profaned The hour in which the Prince of Peace was born; No bloody streamlet stained Earth's silver rivers on that sacred morn." The Bible Story In like manner he would halt to pluck any stray ears of wild oats that grew along the hedge sides, and occasionally slake his thirst at convenient streamlets. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance The air was refreshed by a succession of little mountain streamlets, which splashed with a cool sound about our horses' feet. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 No streamlet on the hill-side But finds its course to run; But not a hand to open My pathway to the sun. Black Forest Village Stories But from the lake a streamlet flowed to the open sea. Saga of Halfred the Sigskald A Northern Tale of the Tenth Century The small birds rejoice in the green leaves returning, The murmuring streamlet winds clear through the vale; The hawthorn trees blow in the dews of the morning, And wild scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Now tell me all about the war, and what they dammed each streamlet for.” Lord Stranleigh Abroad Chilled by the rain, the tender lotus sank: She filled its place upon the streamlet's bank. The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa Linger awhile upon some bending planks 5 That lean against a streamlet's rushy banks, And watch intently Nature's gentle doings, They will be found softer than ringdove's cooings. Graded Poetry: Third Year In a small boat they could row upon this lake, and down the streamlet to the sea. Saga of Halfred the Sigskald A Northern Tale of the Tenth Century Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlets plays; Come, let us spend the lightsome days In the birks of Aberfeldy. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History There was the dry track of a streamlet, along which a faint trickle oozed to the surface here and there. Leonore Stubbs "These verses are full of spirit and life, and the merry mood plays and sings between the lines like the contented streamlet between wind-swept hillsides." Eden An Episode Halleck followed the coffin to that beautiful spot beyond the Harlem-122- that they both loved so well, and there by the side of the Bronx streamlet the poet Drake was buried. Literary New York Its Landmarks and Associations The streamlet of the Fountain of the Hinds flows but a hundred paces from our home. The Infant's Skull Or The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium Meantime unnumber'd glittering streamlets played, And hurled everywhere their waters' sheen; That, as they bickered through the sunny shade, Though restless still themselves, a lulling murmur made. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History In the streamlet, white and slender, All alone the nymph is bathing, Beautiful her arms and shoulders Shimmer in the moonbeams' splendor. Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine The warm showers of June call up the iris in the corner where the streamlet widens, and under the willows appear large yellow flowers above the flags. The Hills and the Vale The whole earth is for a moment green again—trees whisper—streamlets murmur—and the "merry month o' Spring" is musical through all her groves. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) The importance of the results thus obtained by the slightest change of direction in the infant streamlets, furnishes an interesting type of the formation of human characters by habit. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) Water, clear and sparkling, which is brought from a mountain stream above, is abundant everywhere in fountains and pools, and in streamlets along the pathways. A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise Hear the song of its high mountains Of its gushing rills and streamlets, Of its leaping, rolling rivers, Of the meadows still and lonely, Of the groves all solitary, Of the land of cunning fables. The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. By these hornbeam trees a little streamlet flows out from the copse and under the road by a culvert. The Hills and the Vale "Bear up, O Mother Nature!" cry Bird, breeze, and streamlet free, "Our winter voices prophesy Of summer days to thee!" Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 Sometimes if of soft material they actually are so consumed by the quicker trickling of streamlets at the base than at the summit, or by the general action of damp in decomposing the rock. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) A little further, in the turn of the bay, a streamlet trickled in the bottom of a den, thence spilling down a stair of rock into the sea. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) A few wooden houses nestling in the bends and gullies, where small streamlets ran. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea There is nothing to break the exquisite stillness of the night, save the monotonous beating of the waves against the rocks, and the faint rippling murmur of a streamlet in the ash-grove. Rossmoyne Below yawned an immense ravine, far down in the cool, dark depths of which a little streamlet flowed. Cudjo's Cave How inspiring, the merry tinkle of the clear streamlet, swiftly flowing over its rocky bed; or the louder roar of the rushing waterfall, where drooping boughs glisten and sparkle with spray-laden foliage! Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century It is like comparing the great Ben Nevis with the streamlets which flow from his base, and asking, "Is this all the mighty mountain can give the world?" Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. The floor was covered with a black mud, and a close examination of the face showed tiny streamlets of water trickling down in several places. Facing Death The Hero of the Vaughan Pit. A Tale of the Coal Mines And troops are coming hither from all quarters, like streamlets flowing into the ocean. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital Here restless fountains ever murmuring glide, And as their crispèd streamlets play, To feed, Cephisus, thine unfailing tide, Fresh verdure marks their winding way. Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 From the edge of it the water was dripping in tiny streamlets. The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle The Trail of the Seven Cedars Thou, whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets run! Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 The brook which ran by Gurta’s encampment had by this time become a streamlet, though still shallow. Callista : a Tale of the Third Century A few lofty Scots firs grew hard by upon a knoll; a clear fountain near the foot of the knoll sent up a miniature streamlet which meandered in the heather. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI Finn had already slaked his thirst hurriedly a mile back, in a chattering, rock-bedded mountain streamlet. Finn The Wolfhound Its name was derived from the ancient streamlet called the Fleet, more commonly "Fleet Ditch," near whose confluence with the Thames, at Ludgate Hill, was the notorious Fleet Prison, with its equally notorious "marriages." Dickens' London Born 1787: My father loved the patient angler's art, And many a summer's day, from early morn To latest evening, by some streamlet's side, We two have tarried; strange companionship! Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order What these intervening weeks had been to Carmen, none might have guessed as she sat there with the sunlight filtering in streamlets of gold through her brown hair. Carmen Ariza No, ’tis a streamlet hidden in the fern, Thus from dawn to dark I wait, I learn Sorrow is all. The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems To thee the Soma draughts proceed, As streamlets to the lake they feed, Or rivers to the ocean speed. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems This old cathedral city, at the junction of two small streamlets, a short distance from the sea, lies perhaps a dozen miles away from the nearest railway. The Cathedrals of Northern France His lordly ships of ice Glistened in the sun; On each side, like pennons wide, Flashing crystal streamlets run. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 While winter seized the streamlets That fled along the ground, And fast in chains of crystal The truant murmurers bound. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition So saying, he began to follow up the streamlet, in spite of the jeers and scoldings of his brothers. Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 An Illustrated Magazine The deer roam at will, and streamlets trickle and English violets and other wild flowers blossom, the praises of whose delicate perfumes and beauties have been sung by Wordsworth and Keats. Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad Why is thy visage o'ershadowed by gloom, Are Nature's enchantments not scattered around, Has the rose lost her fragrance, the tulip her bloom, Has the streamlet no longer its mild, soothing sound? Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 When the sun has dried the dew, there are swamps and streamlets in every valley and even far up the mountain slopes. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' A streamlet crossed their pathway, moving placidly and gently along, but as they followed its windings, gurgling and foaming over the rocky obstructions, and almost drowning their voices in its noisy course. The Elm Tree Tales She caught the sparkle of a little cascade, the gleam of a streamlet. Rimrock Trail A jazz-band will strike up, coughing out the nauseated, retching intervals so stimulating to our feet, and two by two, in driblets, streamlets, and lastly in a volume, the guests will take the floor. The Dust Flower In the cold green mountains, Nothing grew but moss and trees, Water dripped and sludgy streamlets Trapped our horses by the knees. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse Then it is only a matter of hours before every streamlet becomes a swollen torrent. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' Down a meadow gushed a small streamlet which splashed from a wooden spout on to the roadside.” Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement The great Fountain of being must first be dried up, before the streamlet can. The Words of Jesus The confined streamlet or the capacious river—the obscure village or the populous town—were, with parchment rolls and oaken-covered books, alike objects of curiosity in his philosophic eye! Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Others were sitting and eating under the shade of a group of weeping willows, overshadowing a bason of pure water, fed by a streamlet trickling down from the neighbouring hills. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. In the main the streamlets and rivers keep pretty much the same direction and volume one year after another, but then there is also a quiet shifting of these currents. All About Coffee The forms -rel, as in cockerel, pickerel, and -let, as in streamlet, require a separate consideration. A Handbook of the English Language This streamlet is as much mud as water, is almost stagnant. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas Down this glen, the width of which, at its entrance, may be about sixty yards, trickles a scanty streamlet. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe Now it laved the flower on its brink,—now it fed the umbrageous sycamore and the tall poplar on the plain,—and now it sent off a crystal streamlet to meander through corn-field and meadow-land. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge The Goat-mother gathered up her skirts, and assisted by Pyto, began to scramble down the bank to the side of the streamlet. Soap-Bubble Stories For Children The termination -let, as in streamlet, seems to be double, and to consist of the Gothic diminutive -l, and the French diminutive -t. A Handbook of the English Language In the distance, the ocean, quiet, calm, unruffled, was sleeping beneath the sober sky, and not a breeze wafted its murmurs to the little streamlet by the side of which that old man sat. The Buccaneer A Tale "The lark sings loud, and the throstle's song Is heard from the depths of the hawthorn dale; And the rush of the streamlet the vales among Doth blend with the sighs of the whispering gale." Music and Some Highly Musical People In crossing a streamlet, which I visited shortly afterwards, his foot slipped. The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals Early we turned in: the stars were out; the frogs croaked in the streamlets. In the Tail of the Peacock Analyze the words former, next, upmost, thirty, streamlet, sweetheart, duckling. A Handbook of the English Language We arrive at the dawn of day, while the rising sun beautifies the mountain tops, the green slopes, the gulches, and fern-clad hills, which here and there sparkle with silvery streamlets. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands The blood flowed in crimson streamlets, and some of it spurted on Clarimonde. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century It was then that M. Seguin, the engineer of the railway, pursuing the same idea, adopted his plan of employing horizontal tubes through which the heated air passed in streamlets. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson The great rollers pounded against the coral banks, and poured back in a thousand white streamlets, like a wonderful cascade, to be swallowed by the next wave. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific The bath was a remarkable feature—a natural stone basin, under the shadow of a great rock, fed by the clearest streamlet and sheltered from view by a heavy bit of curtain, was our bathing-place. Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak It was these streamlets which cut the side canyons and left standing between them the bold promontories of the rim. The Book of the National Parks This is the unity which lives in my symphonies—numberless streamlets meandering on, in endless variety of shape, but all diverging into one common bed. Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 Then he laid his master's body upon the streamlet's brink, to wash away the blood. Burl In fact that undecided, feeble-minded streamlet totally "demoralized" the whole hillside, and with its vagaries I had to contend at every step of my way. Little Brothers of the Air She roved along the smiling bank which fringed the stream until the setting sun dyed with the richest purple the rocky pinnacles in the distance, and made the streamlet glow like a golden flood. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf Its exquisite fresh purity made James feel pure also, and like a little child he wandered over the undulating earth, broken by the tortuous courses of the streamlets of winter. The Hero A broken willow barred her way after a time, and she climbed up on its swaying trunk and let her feet dangle over the frozen streamlet below. The Wind Before the Dawn Eleanor had never heard it from them before; now somehow each rushing streamlet, with its bright leap over obstacles and its joyous dash onward in its course, sounded the same note. The Old Helmet, Volume I Work on while yet the sun doth shine, thou man of strength and will, The streamlet ne'er doth useless glide by clicking watermill; Nor wait until to-morrow's light beams brightly on thy way. One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed My second is a shadowed place Of forest bloom and song, Where mosses creep o'er the rock's stern face, Vines climb and swing in wildest grace, And a streamlet laughs along. Stories of Many Lands The streamlet now is frozen, The nightingales are fled, 5 The cornfields are deserted, And every rose is dead. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature This course was, no doubt, artificial, and the water ran more rapidly in it than it did in the neighbouring streamlets. The Vicar of Bullhampton Take twenty square feet of snow with a streamlet through the centre, and we have an epitome of geological processes and conditions. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year And with his sound leg, he leaped across the streamlet. Laboulaye's Fairy Book The streamlets were rippling gaily in the noontide sun; far off on the yellow common a solitary angler was whipping the stream—quite an unusual figure in the lonely landscape. Vixen, Volume II. Running water.—Brooks, creeks, rain, and the tiny streamlets on the hills all tell us how soil is carried from place to place. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ere long our feet sank into a quantity of liquid mud, and I discovered a slender streamlet of limpid water oozing out between two rocks. Adventures of a Young Naturalist An Anglo-Saxon word still in use for a water-course, or streamlet which rises high with floods. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. With his ear close to, but not touching the ground, he distinctly caught a rippling sound in the streamlet which flowed so near. Camp-fire and Wigwam The new castle rose on the eastern bank of the Thames, broken here into a number of small streamlets, one of which served as the deep moat which encircled its walls. Stray Studies from England and Italy In the course of a few months nearly forty thousand persons were scattered along the banks of the streamlet where the handsome streets of Bendigo now stand. History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 Under the foliage of sarsaparilla our companion was kneeling down and catching in his hands a little streamlet of limpid water, which was trickling from between two rocks. Adventures of a Young Naturalist The streamlet or channel which runs through the silt or sand at low-water in tidal ports; a term principally used on our southern shores. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Polly faintly screamed when the basin overturned and the mustard water ran in numerous streamlets across the waxed wood and center rug. Polly's Business Venture Down their precipitous sides clothed with the richest green rushed innumerable streamlets to swell the largest and most rapid rivulet on the island, which watered the whole extent of this luxuriant valley. A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1 In the evening Cook, Banks, and other gentlemen took the pinnace and rowed up the streamlet. History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 The rippling waters of a little streamlet glide softly upon its way through lovely banks of sweet green moss. Daisy Ashford: Her Book A streamlet of water that flows in winter and dries up in summer. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. It was with her as with Whittier's sweet Quakeress: "For all her quiet life flowed on As meadow streamlets flow, Where fresher green reveals alone The noiseless ways they go." Daughters of the Puritans A Group of Brief Biographies So did the streamlet that was running along so fast. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) Occasionally they came to dense shade, and moss, and black shadow, and low sweet shrubs a few inches high, and the tinkle of a tiny streamlet. The Adventures of Bobby Orde It caused him to remember the love song of the birds, the music of a streamlet, as it murmured its way down a valley near his old home. The Day of Judgment In that case the "silver streamlet" may be identified as the Caia. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 Then, as he stopped a second to step over a little streamlet that oozed along at his feet, all at once he became aware how still it was. Wood Magic A Fable So I got off my horse, and washed myself in a streamlet that trickled beside the road. Roger Trewinion From slight depressions in the brows of the overhanging cliffs, streamlets leaped hundreds of feet in silvery recklessness, falling in feathery foam by our side. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. The wood is searched from side to side, No distant spot remains untried, No lilied pool, no streamlet where The lotus buds are fresh and fair. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse At the foot of a little hill covered with old and shady cypress trees, gushes out a spring, which bursts out into a number of streamlets, all of different sizes. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 The larks were not here, nor the swallows, nor the rooks; the streamlet at his feet went on without a murmur; and the breeze did not come down into the hollow. Wood Magic A Fable They had just now begun to drop off, and streamlets of blood were running down from him in every direction. The Three Midshipmen Every now and then I caught glimpses of the river, now gradually widening as it was joined by other streamlets on either side. "Martin Of Nitendi"; and The River Of Dreams 1901 They looked on lake and streamlet, where The lotus bloom was bright and fair, Nor marched—for Ráma's hest they feared Where town or haunt of men appeared. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse No streamlet glides to a lower level without having been first lifted to the elevation from which it springs by the power of the sun. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The bough could not speak for the same reason that the oak could not; but it bent down towards the streamlet. Wood Magic A Fable For instance, they had to toil on quite a mile before the narrow crack, which formed the bed of a streamlet, offered itself as a way out of the glacier valley. The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps And now poor little Amiens has become a mere border town like our Durham, and Somme a border streamlet like our Tyne. Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens He looked, but Sítá was not there; His cot was disolate and bare, Like streamlet in the winter frost, The glory of her lilies lost. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Many small streamlets, bogs and marshes, ponds and pools, are delightful to the lover of Nature, no less than to the sportsman. Chatterbox, 1906 The men huzzaed hoarsely—the horses neighed—the mules hinnied—and, in a few moments more, men, mules, and horses, were kneeling by a crystal streamlet, and drinking deeply of its sweet and refreshing waters. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness Born among the mountains, and wedding other brooks and streamlets, uniting them in a river, clear and lovely, along whose banks children loved to play. Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet Not yet had she learned that the living water flows the fuller for every streamlet that it fills; that the true riches are heaped the higher, the more lavish is the hand that transmits them. For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary It is the streamlet of the church, the pious pavement, the miserable suburb of worship. En Route The mother looked at the child and the child danced and sparkled and prattled airily along the course of the streamlet, which kept up a babble, kind, quiet, soothing, but melancholy. Tales of Fantasy and Fact These in the shape of numerous little streamlets, flowing into the river, most of them still in freshet from the late rain. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco Do not detain me, for I am going To where the streamlets are ever flowing. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills The fishermen—regardless of the driving mist, which, settling on their flushing coats and sou’-westers, ran off them in streamlets—kept turning their eyes seawards, endeavouring to penetrate the increasing gloom. Won from the Waves We could see them dashing into and across the little streamlet without making any account of it. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Bright shines the sun, the gentle breeze In soften'd murmurs blows, And softly through the verdant mead, The little streamlet flows. The Keepsake or, Poems and Pictures for Childhood and Youth To guard against the admission of everything but water, lay drains deep enough to be beyond the danger of water bursting in, in streamlets. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles The track followed the windings of a streamlet which was at that time covered with snow, and only distinguishable by the absence of bushes along its course. Wrecked but not Ruined I never beheld a natural streamlet more exquisitely beautiful. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Where streamlets poured over rock outcroppings the horses slipped. Laramie Holds the Range There is but one entrance to it visible, on the west side, at its lowest level, where the depression already mentioned runs down the slope to the south-west as the bed of a rocky streamlet. Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I We could see, however, as we plunged through the now swollen streamlet, that the current, in its general direction, was the same with our road: it would certainly guide us to the river. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse The creek itself was a mere streamlet which ran a short course from the mountains of the interior, brawling down a wild gully of inconsiderable extent. Wrecked but not Ruined They only stopped once more to quench their thirst at a streamlet which was rushing impetuously down the rocks, and a little below them foamed over the precipice into a white and noisy cataract. Julian Home For three days, our path coasted the southern edge of a mountain range, whose declivities and valleys were filled with rivers, brooks, and streamlets, affording abundant irrigation to fields teeming with vegetable wealth. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver They stepped out into the dark—for night had fallen—and plashed along the flagged path which glimmered like a white streamlet between the dark turves. The Nebuly Coat Insignificant as the streamlet is in itself, it yet forms, because of the width of its valley and the ten rather large lakes in it, a locality peculiarly well fitted for defense. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 We live in His life.—The tiny streamlet of our being has joined His, is merged in it, and flows on together with it, to the great ocean of eternity. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. It is only in the wet season that the streamlets flow, for Bechuanaland is intensely dry. Impressions of South Africa For six days more, our path led over hill and dale, and through charming valleys, fed by gentle streamlets that nourished the vigorous vegetation of a mountain land. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Here and there about the springs and at the heads of the streamlets the firs appear to stand back, making room for green meadows brightened with a profusion of flowers. The Western United States A Geographical Reader As bell of lily white, In streamlet mirror'd bright, All quiv'ring with delight, Is my love to me— My love to me. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Yet it was not that Nature had shed o'er the scene Her purest of crystal and brightest of green; 'Twas not her soft magic of streamlet or hill, Oh! English Songs and Ballads Lonely to the sea-breeze blowing, Oft I chant my love-lorn strain, To the streamlet sweetly flowing, Murmur oft a lover's pain. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century The site is very agreeable, with streamlets of water tinkling among trees by the roadside. Byeways in Palestine Will ye despise the streamlets Upon the mountain side; Ye broad and mighty rivers, On sweeping to the tide? The Liberty Minstrel Wilt thou, beside thy native Rhone, E'er for our distant streamlets sigh? The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century There would then be but a streamlet of blood where now there is going to be a great river. The Long Roll Once more in the Highlands I wander alone, Where the thistle and heather are bonnie and blown; By mountain and streamlet, by cavern and glen, Where echo repeats the sweet wood-notes again. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century The paternal house was near the river, and by the side of the streamlet called Walbrook, since covered over, but which then flowed in the open air. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance He began to walk towards the town, and Mr. Heard, with his legs wide apart and his arms held stiffly from his body, waddled along beside him, Two little streamlets followed. Short Cruises When he came to one of the innumerable streamlets that caught the land in a net of silver, he removed his coarse shoes and stockings, and waded it. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia The streamlet should run through the land of them with whom we are righteously at war. The Long Roll Of the streamlet, every murmur Sweetly swells the song of peace, Chanting, with each vocal charmer, Joys that bloom and wars that cease. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century So, noblest of the noble, go Through regions echoing thy name; And even on me, thy friend, shall flow Some streamlet from thy river of fame. Ionica 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. Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines At a short distance from the spot where the sportsmen stood, the streamlet already alluded to mingled its waters with a broad river, which, a few miles farther down, flows into James’s Bay. Ungava Wooden fences stretched across the way, streamlets presented themselves, here and there gaped a ravine, ragged and deep. The Long Roll The forked streamlet tumbled over the precipice and descended into the dark pool below in the form of two tiny silver threads. Twice Bought That age was as a neutral vale 'Twixt uplands of tumultuous strife, And turning from the sects to hail Composure and a graceful life, Here, where the fern-clad streamlet flows, Boconnoc's guests ensured repose. Ionica They came up with him in a short time at bay under a mimosa-tree by the side of a streamlet. The Settler and the Savage I. "A pebble on the streamlet scant Has turned the course of many a river; A dewdrop on the baby plant Has warped the giant oak forever." Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power On the inland side it ran beneath a bluff; on the other a rail fence rimmed a twelve-foot embankment dropping to a streamlet and a wide field where the corn stood in shocks. The Long Roll A moment later, and these made a quick silent rush over the clearing to gain the slight shelter of the shrubs that fringed the streamlet. Twice Bought At last they came to a sluggish streamlet, the headwaters of the Kankakee. French Pathfinders in North America The disembodied spirits of man and beast return as the clouds to renew the young streamlets of infancy.... Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution “Better to have shed a few streamlets then than the rivers which may have to flow should the tyrant gain the throne,” answered Stephen. Roger Willoughby A Story of the Times of Benbow Presently, trailing their feet, they returned to the streamlet and their companions in misfortune. The Long Roll I don’t suppose this bit of a streamlet keeps like this. Marcus: the Young Centurion That was formed by building a strong stone wall across a hollow streamlet; this was made by raising this great embankment right across the valley here and stopping the stream that ran through it. Patience Wins War in the Works He pointed through the trees at where the streamlet widened into the little creek where they had first landed, and Nic rubbed his eyes, refusing to believe in what he saw. Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land "A pebble on the streamlet scant Has turned the course of many a river." Pushing to the Front Ocean, lake, streamlet, was separately interrogated, 'How much delicious food do you contain? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Through its midst the streamlet meanders above, issuing out of the timber, and below again entering it. The Lone Ranche Beside the streamlet seated, mark how life glides on: That sign, how swift each moment goes, to me’s enough. Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources The rain water ran down a sloping piece of ground in a tiny channel it had made; the streamlet was very muddy, and at first it was thought that all the soil was washed away. Lessons on Soil We now came to the end of our road; and alighting, we tied our steeds to the willows and alders scattered along the streamlet's bank. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Out where all the winds are blowing, Where the free, bright streamlet's flowing Leap and laugh and race and run Like a child that's full of fun!— A Jolly Jingle-Book It is true that of diminutives very many still survive, in all our four terminations of such, as ‘hillock’, ‘streamlet’, ‘lambkin’, ‘gosling’; but those which have perished are many more. English Past and Present The Ahr, in summer a rippling streamlet and in winter a rushing torrent, falls into the Rhine about twenty miles below Coblenz. Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines These are the marsh marigolds: there were two places where she gathered them, one beside the streamlet flowing through the 'Mash,' a meadow which was almost a water-meadow; and the other inside a withy-bed. Round About a Great Estate A beautiful place for our pic-nic—a mossy log or two by the streamlet, and a delicious greensward. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 "A pebble in the streamlet scant Has turned the course of many a river: A dewdrop on the baby plant Has warped the giant oak forever." How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune And the tree becomes literally a fountain, of which the springing streamlets are clothed with new-woven garments of green tissue, and of which the silver spray stays in the sky,—a spray, now, of leaves. Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers Well, I have drank a little"—and I glanced at the streamlet—"but a cup of d'Arbois now, or even some white Rochecorbon, would be nectar. Orrain A Romance Green flags hide and almost choke the shallow mouth of a streamlet that joins the brook coming from the woods. Round About a Great Estate Teals do not like to place the nest flat on the earth, and it is generally put on the ground rather above the marshes or streamlets, a hollow being scraped under a small bush. Chatterbox, 1905. The essential character of Scotland is that of a wild and thinly inhabited rocky country, not sublimely mountainous, but beautiful in low rock and light streamlet everywhere; with sweet copsewood and rudely growing trees. Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 Thornhill is a very pretty place, with a neat church and a dell, in which a river must formerly have meandered, but where now a streamlet runs to join Lake Ontario. Canada and the Canadians Volume I And gently led them by the crystal streamlets, Bade them on dewdrops feast, And showed them where the silver moon was rising To light them from the east. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 I have not had a word with you since we sat by the brink of your artificial streamlet last Saturday afternoon; and that, speaking in round numbers, was a million years ago. The Lady Paramount Who can help admiring the beautiful Lady Fern, which seems to be most at home when growing near a streamlet or pond? Chatterbox, 1905. And now a little fish jumped in the streamlet; and the splash, trifling as it was, with which he fell back on the quiet surface, half startled me. Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago The effects of iron ore, producing very manifest changes of hue, were everywhere seen in trickling drops and streamlets down the sides. The Annals of the Poor At this the streamlet, from which she drew the water, asked: "Why do you break your pitcher, my little girl?" Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 "I wonder!" he questioned a third time when he drank from the streamlet and sought its source, finding it at last in the enchanted walnut. Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know O'er mountain and valley Morn gladly did gleam; The streamlets danced gaily Beneath its bright beam; The daisies were springing To life at my feet; The woodlands were ringing With melody sweet. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century And in he went, jumping a narrow streamlet into a point of thicket, through which he drove by main force. Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago The arched room, of which the projecting window with three lights overlooks the streamlet below, is known as the Earl's Chamber. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway "Ah, then," said the streamlet, "now must I begin to flow." Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 This was immediately agreed to, and they took their seats on a moss-grown rock, a short distance from which a little streamlet descended in a murmuring cascade. Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan Now recollection's airy train Shoots through my heart with pleasing pain, And streamlet, mountain, rock, or plain, Like friends appear, That, lang, lang lost, now found again, Are doubly dear. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century He must lay his lion asleep in St. Jerome's study beside his tame partridge and easy slippers; lead the appeased river by alternate azure promontories, and restrain its courtly little streamlets with margins of marble. Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 When it was done the place showed no sign of the intruder, only the whispering of the streamlet told that its course was changed and it was feeling for a new channel. The Emigrant Trail In another five minutes they dashed down a steep descent, at whose foot a streamlet, swelled now into a rushing stream, five or six feet wide, was running. Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower The broad river in its bowels was reduced to something like a trickling streamlet. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon Immediately within the embankment, on the right side of the streamlet, is the empty tower or by-wash, that dismal monument of culpable negligence. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852 Mountain, no pomp of waving woods hast thou, That deck with varied shade thy hoary brow; No sunny meadows at thy feet are spread, No streamlets sparkle o'er their pebbly bed! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan There had once been water here for the grasses, and thin-leafed plants grew rank about the rock's base, then outlined in sere decay what had evidently been the path of a streamlet. The Emigrant Trail Out where a fresher breeze is blowing, Where there is laughter in every streamlet flowing, Where there's more of reaping and less of sowing, That's where the West begins. Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" By these hornbeam trees a streamlet flows out of the copse, crossed at the hedge by a pole, to prevent cattle straying in. Nature Near London If the streamlet discharges into a pool, we find the tiny representative of deltas, which form such an important feature on the coast line where large rivers enter seas or lakes. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Where streamlets deep o’er rocky cliffs Form cataracts so lofty? The Poetry of Wales On the left or western side of the road the Akankon ridge is subtended by a hollow, the valley of a streamlet in rainy weather. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative The flow’r-enamoured busy bee The rosy banquet loves to sip; Sweet the streamlet’s limpid lapse To the sun-brown’d Arab’s lip;— But, Delia, on thy balmy lips Let me, no vagrant insect, rove! The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham There are a few inches, a narrow strip of sand, beside the streamlet under this pole. Nature Near London He arose With joy, and stepping to the streamlet near, Scoops up the water in his palms, and bows 19 In suppliance to the Gods, and burdens Heaven with vows. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor O Virtue, come waft me on thy silken pinions, To where purer streamlets still flow, Where summer, unceasing, pervades thy dominions, Nor stormy bleak wint'ry winds blow. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Women's washings were seen everywhere along the road, and in some places oozings of iron from the soil heavily charged the streamlets. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative That man shall flourish like the trees Which by the streamlets grow; The fruitful top is spread on high, And firm the root below. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham The interior is mountainous, intersected by marshes, and abounding with streamlets and lakes. The Moravians in Labrador Fixt home hath no one; by the streamlet's side, Or in dark groves, or dewy meads we stray, Where living waters through the pastures glide. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor Water, in its various forms of streamlet, rain, or river, is felt as an universal gift of heaven, not as an inheritance of a particular spot of earth. Giotto and his works in Padua An Explanatory Notice of the Series of Woodcuts Executed for the Arundel Society After the Frescoes in the Arena Chapel The path crossed several streamlets trending north to the Aunábé, and a bad mud which had seen corduroy in its better days. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative In vain ye flaunt in summer’s pride, ye groves; Thou crystal streamlet with thy flowery shore, Ye woodland choir that chant your idle loves, Ye cease to charm—Eliza is no more! The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham At ten o'clock he started out with his party, followed the road by the side of the Crorrere river--here a mere streamlet--and halted in a wood about five miles from Felletin. In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain Onward she went, down to the edge of the brook, then turned to the right up the course of the streamlet. The Delight Makers It had come down clear and unimpeded from its primal mountain source in Ararat, and grew from a puny streamlet to a vast perennial river, generation after generation flowing on ceaselessly. The Last Man Severely hustled and horribly shaken up, we ran down the little valley of the Avin streamlet. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative According to a fundamental principle of the Lutherans, we depend not merely on the irrigating streamlets that originate in the fountain to which we have access, but we rather drink from that fountain itself. American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann He broke the ice on the streamlet's brink. The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D. It sounded as though this second voice had issued from the very waters of the streamlet. The Delight Makers Quite near, David found a streamlet that trickled down from the snow line, and to a grassy plot on the edge of this he dragged a quantity of dry wood and built a fire. The Courage of Marge O'Doone The French lords and ladies thought to return to Tarbes as easily as they had come, but they found the streamlets so deep as to be scarcely fordable. The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.) We gaze upon the streamlet, As o'er the bridge we lean; We watch its hurried ripples We mark its golden green. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life At the foot of a little hill, covered with old and shady cypress trees, a spring gushes and bursts into a number of streamlets of various size. On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 Flowers, verdure, streamlets, all united to form a picture of perfect harmony. Great Violinists And Pianists The nightingale with sweet refrain By every brook and streamlet trilled. Bearslayer A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse The picture of Narcissus represents Narcissus first and foremost; then it brings in a solitude and a streamlet. The Wonders of Pompeii Faster and faster sped the train on its pathway over streamlet and valley, meadow and woodland, until at last the Queen City, with its numerous spires, was left far behind. Tempest and Sunshine The ripple of the streamlet in these palace halls revived a half-forgotten music of the heart that had once responded to the gurgle of a brook. Atmâ A Romance Down from its snowy glittering sides a thousand streamlets blended in larger streams combining in the Jordan, which flowed through marshes and Lake Merom until it entered Gennesaret near their home. A Life of St. John for the Young It is a streamlet of discarded sin, flowing constantly from Purgatory,149 whence wickedness is washed down to its original Satanic source. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 Again she intrusted her ship to the crystal streamlet; but, alas! the weight of the stones carried it straight to the bottom. Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C. By the side of a little streamlet, which took its source from the river Meuse, and dividing it east by west, stands the village of Domremy. Joan of Arc Thee, too, 'mong storied founts I'll place, Singing the oak that slants the steep, Above the hollowed home of rock From which thy prattling streamlets leap. Horace and His Influence This is not a district of running rills: we crossed three sluggish streamlets knee deep. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 There is a giant yew tree in the midst that would hide six men in its hollow trunk, and a laughing streamlet circles well-nigh round it. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot Along the streamlets which may be found in the numerous small valleys we met with the slender ash trees, beside alders, shrubs, Euonymus with brilliant red capsules, willows, etc. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan The house which now exists on the site of her birthplace was built in 1481, but the little streamlet still takes its course at its foot. Joan of Arc In the parish of Dean Prior is a narrow wooded valley, watered by a streamlet, that in two or three places falls into cascades of considerable beauty. Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850 While winter seized the streamlets That fled along the ground, And fast in chains of crystal The truant murmurers bound. Poems He circled round it, clambering over fallen trees and forcing his way through thorny vines, till he saw, amid roots of alder-bushes, a streamlet flow from the lakeside. Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Stretching before him he saw the valley he had remarked the evening before, with the streamlet winding like a silver ribbon in a green flounce. The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest The faces are thoroughly Leonardesque, and through an open window in the background we clearly see the streamlet flowing between rocky shores. Barbara's Heritage Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters There are nightingales that sing harmoniously near the coolness of the small streamlets, repeating their melodious trills, and gifted with most nimble throats. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. Oh silvery streamlet of the fields, That flowest full and free! Poems Certain streamlets of water issue from the springs of those mountains, from which people drink; and these waters are so cold and thin that, if one does not eat sufficient, they do him much harm. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 1621-1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. Nature I court in her sequestered haunts, By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove or cell, Where the poised lark his evening ditty chaunts, And Health, and Peace, and Contemplation dwell. The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance A red lantern, on a level with the dam of the Mint, cast a streamlet of blood, as it were, into the water. His Masterpiece In his recollection a bridge had here crossed the streamlet. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. Still glides the gentle streamlet on, With shifting current new and strange; The water that was here is gone, But those green shadows do not change. The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood For that purpose they have some small streamlets near at hand, with two or three hollows in their beds. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 1621-1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. A quiet spot of shade and flickering sunshine—a streamlet, and a rural bridge. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 His lordly ships of ice Glisten in the sun; On each side, like pennons wide, Flashing crystal streamlets run. The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics This little streamlet, therefore, is a silver thread connecting two great oceans three thousand miles apart. John L. Stoddard's Lectures, Vol. 10 (of 10) Southern California; Grand Canon of the Colorado River; Yellowstone National Park To Malkin Tower the word is sent, Forth to her task the beldame goes, And where she points the streamlet flows; Its customary bed forsaking, Another distant channel making. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest Turning the corner of the house, they forded the streamlet previously mentioned, crossed the valley, and ascended by a narrow horse-path the opposite hill, leaving the canebrake some distance away to the left. Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life The second Sort is, where there is the Addition of the Scene; as suppose we give the Picture of the fair Shepherdess, sitting on the Banks of a pleasant streamlet. A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Starting anew, they came to the streamlet that fed the pond and a short tramp beyond it Jabez spied another surveyor's stake. The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 Across the plain they encircled a river ran in loops, and from the crag at the edge of which she stood a streamlet emerged and took a brave leap down the hill to join it. Lady Good-for-Nothing Down-wimpling and murmuring there 'twixt two dewy hills winds a streamlet, Like a long, flaxen ringlet of hair on the breast of a maid in her slumber. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Peace at last; no roll of cart-wheel, nor mutter of sullen voices in the back shop; but curlew-cry in space of heaven, and welling of bell-toned streamlet by its shadowy rock. Selections From the Works of John Ruskin No grass for forage; several very small streamlets were passed en route, so that a small party might halt anywhere. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries A tiny streamlet wandering strayed Beneath our garden wall, Where one of my forefathers made A mimic waterfall. Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century Wandering by the streamlet flowing Where we played in hours of glee, Hear its murmurs coming, going, Tell of joys that used to be. The Mountain Spring and Other Poems With her small white hand on the rail, she glided along the wooden bridge, or tripped from stone to stone across the shallow streamlet. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader Down the swift streamlet she danced laughingly, and made herself once more bitter with the sea. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series There is a streamlet here. 18th.—Detained by bad weather, which threatened the whole of yesterday. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries They have never seen the country, never heard the streamlet flow: London pavements, London darkness, London squalor,—these they know. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 23, 1892 This lesson should these scenes impart As on the road of life we go, To do our duty and take heart, As flowers bloom and streamlets flow. The Mountain Spring and Other Poems An hour afterward his comrades bear the boy to a sheltered spot on the other side of the streamlet, and then the first word of complaint escapes him. From Canal Boy to President Or the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield Not far off ran a pretty streamlet, looking clear and bright; but here also in its murmuring waters, the sister heard the words— "Who dares to drink of me, Turned to a stag will be." Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know It is curious that the streamlets, and streams about Gundamuck have not worn themselves half as deep channels as those about Khuggur, although no appreciable difference is apparent in the strata. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries "The low reeds bent by the streamlet's side, And hills to the thunder peal replied; The lightning burst on its fearful way While the heavens were lit in its red array." Elsie's Womanhood Before its glance the wind-phantoms slink away in fear and the now quiet streamlet smiles through its tears. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Blackbirds played hide-and-seek beneath the boughs, blue and white violets hid in the tall grass around the boles, and the spaces between were carpeted with daisies to the edge of a streamlet. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales A tiny streamlet trickled its way over a bed of decayed vegetation often meandering through a dense growth of wiry reeds in a channel set well below the general level. The Man in the Twilight Distance fifteen miles: general direction S.S.W. Passed many streamlets, and continued for some time close to the Endaw, which is still a largish river, apparently deep, with a sluggish stream. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries Another streamlet, lagging a little, ran shining down the other track, stopped, rose, and creeping slowly to the middle of the road, spread into a second gleaming patch. Roof and Meadow The deep water below the stone did not give him back himself as had done the streamlet five days before. Lewis Rand Over the streamlet sang thrushes and goldfinches and bull-finches innumerable, and their voices shook down the blossom like a fall of pink snow, which threatened to cover even the daisies. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales In a trice the frost was started and the thawed streamlets dancing madly on the white-hot surface beneath. A Daughter of the Snows We passed many streamlets particularly during the latter half of the march. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries As I watched, a silvery streamlet broke away and came running down the wheel track. Roof and Meadow Down a fair streamlet crystal-clear and pleasant I went a fishing all alone one day, And spied three maidens bathing there at play. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series First came thy passion's flood and poured around her As when from melted snow a streamlet overflows; Thou hast therewith so filled and drowned her, That now thy stream all shallow shows. Faust Compressed Air Power.—A hundred years ago every little brook and streamlet was utilised for producing the power required by our local mill-owners, gun-barrel rollers, &c. Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically The south side has a streamlet running along it outside the fence, for the supply of water. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries Away from the worry and jar of his neighbours Where moor-tinted streamlets flow down from the hill. From John O'Groats to Land's End At seven or eight miles' distance another streamlet was reached, named the Mamabamba. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 O'er the stones, the grasses, flowing Stream and streamlet seek the hollow. Faust Not many so we slew, but a number tripped over in the rush were trampled underfoot, or threw themselves in the streamlet's bed, wherein afterwards they were speedily slain. The Fall of the Grand Sarrasin Being a Chronicle of Sir Nigel de Bessin, Knight, of Things that Happed in Guernsey Island, in the Norman Seas, in and about the Year One Thousand and Fifty-Seven The boundary nullah is a mere streamlet: it runs between two ridges of the Patkaye: its course being about ESE. and WNW. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries But what are all these attractions of that spirit-home, compared with Jesus there as the crowning glory of them all! other things are stars and streamlets. The Christian Home Salevao replied that if they got a bamboo he would send them a streamlet through it, and hence the origin of springs. Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before She laughed at her sixteen years with a fine-drawn laugh that flowed on with rhythmic trilling like a streamlet. Abbe Mouret's Transgression He had entered at the lower mouth of the quarries and was proceeding to the northern exit, whence the little streamlet that fed the pools came through a narrow pass. The Red Redmaynes Beautiful fields on every side, with streamlets, rich verdure, poplars, willows, and bold mountain scenery, which contrasts most favourably with the dreary barren tracts to which we have been accustomed. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries Currently was it reported that during Walter Hamilton's vacations the winding footpath, which followed the course of the streamlet down to the mill-pond, was trodden more frequently than usual. Homestead on the Hillside "It will go soon," he said, referring to the miniature streamlet. At a Winter's Fire Lastly, on the left the river flowed through a vast stretch of meadowland, where it parted into four streamlets which winded fitfully beneath the rushes, between the willows, behind the taller trees. Abbe Mouret's Transgression The above arch is about a mile from the village, and crosses a deep dell, called Causey Burne, down which an insignificant streamlet finds its sinuous course. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 578, December 1, 1832 The soil of the plain good and deep, as instanced by ravines, and the deep beds of streamlets. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries He broke the ice on the streamlet's brink, And gave the leper to eat and drink. An English Grammar The water gushed forth and formed a streamlet. After London Or, Wild England The water in the one streamlet flowed to the Atlantic, that in its fellow to the Pacific. Lady Merton, Colonist Now silvery streamlets, from the mountain stealing, Dance joyously the verdant vales along; Cold fear no more the songster's tongue is sealing, Down in the thick dark grove is heard his song. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Abundance of Loaches or Balitora in the streamlets arising from the springs. 13th.—Proceeded to Julraiz, eight and a half miles, having passed a waterfall, as well as abundance of people going to Jallalabad. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries The island of Manhattan, upon which the city of New York is now built, consisted then of a series of forest-crowned hills, interspersed with crystal streamlets and many small but beautiful lakes. Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam But still they rambled on, and soon found themselves in a rocky dell through the midst of which ran a streamlet with ripple and foam and a continual voice of inarticulate joy. Twice Told Tales But she stepped across the tiny streamlet without giving him her hand. Lady Merton, Colonist Their courtiers were the green trees, the shade and the sunlight, the streamlet and the spring; flowers, grass, leaf, and blossom, which 085refreshed their eyes. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times The young man made his way hastily across the water to a little bower beneath the western bank, overhung with birch and fern, half islanded by the swift rush of the mountain streamlet. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 I am sitting sad and lonely Where she often sat with me, And the voice I hear is only Of the silvery streamlet's glee. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850 Nor does the poet "Refuse to follow farther yet I' the backwardness, repine if tree and flower, Mountain or streamlet were my dwelling-place Before I gained enlargement, grew mollusc." Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Now there bubbled beside them where they stood A fountain of waters sweet and good: 50 The youth to the streamlet's brink drew near Saying, 'Ambrose, thou maker of creeds, look here!' The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell The charm of the idyllic is in the lines: But these between, a silver streamlet glides.... The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Songs of birds and streamlet rippling, Meadow, flowers, and leafy tree, Make of earth a land of beauty— What indeed must heaven be? Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians I have not the courage to follow this streamlet back into the devil's heart. A Short History of Monks and Monasteries Even the little streamlets and branches danced and jumped along the pebbly beds, while the minnows sported and frollicked under the shining ripples. "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show The heart within him was ashes and dust; He parted in twain his single crust, He broke the ice on the streamlet's brink, And gave the leper to eat and drink. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell And the streamlets of the mountains Shout to him, and cry out 'Brother'! The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times The trail led him first across a stretch of stump-dotted wet land with pools and rounded rises, green new grass, and trickling streamlets of recently melted snow. The Rules of the Game As our car-wheels dash across these streamlets they splash up the water on each side into sparkling diamonds and on every hand come up the sweet scents of growing, living things. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter The water in the channel was stagnant, swift streamlets rushed in from the tules on the north, and rushed out again on the south. Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico The men hurried along the road to seek shelter under a bluff in our front, along the base of which ran a small streamlet. History of Kershaw's Brigade He did but little drawing, and in the few sketches that remain of that summer there is evidence that his mind was far away from its old love of mountains and of streamlets. The Life of John Ruskin The men helped her to a streamlet some hundreds of yards away. The Rules of the Game With no further words the fair maiden led him southward towards the sea cliffs, skipping over the streamlets that crossed their path, and passing over wide stretches of barren moorland. The Thirsty Sword Her home—'tis far away from her, Its quiet porch is lone, And the sunny wind no more shall stir Its streamlet's silver tone. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 366, April 18, 1829 The gliding fish that takes his play In shady nook of streamlet cool, Thinks not how waters pass away, And summer dries the pool. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 323, July 19, 1828 Now is the time for thee to die, When vale and streamlet frozen lie. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 At the nearest streamlet he washed his face, combed his hair, brushed off his clothes. The Rules of the Game The wide flood of Emerson's discourse has a hundred rivers and thousands of streamlets for its tributaries. Ralph Waldo Emerson The events that intervened all passed away, and Ella was again the same maiden that stood with me so long ago by the streamlet's side on Walburga's eve. Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick Gleaned from Actual Observation and Experience During a Residence Of Seven Years in That Interesting Colony The blue smoke upward curling, The silver streamlet purling, The meadow wildflowers furling Their leaflets to repose: All woo me from the world And its woes. Poems The streamlet, frozen on its way, To feed the marble Founts of Kings, Now, loosen'd by the vernal ray, Upon its path exulting springs, As doth this bounding heart to thee, My ever blissful Maami! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 556, July 7, 1832 Under the influence of this strange effect a deathly stillness seemed to fall, in spite of the bawling and roaring of the river, and the trickle of many streamlets hurrying down from the surrounding hills. The Rules of the Game The night was so mild and beautiful, that we did not want the tents at all, but lay down on the bank of a streamlet, beneath the shade of a large tree. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy Others are like pools at the base of a hill—they receive the inflow of every descending streamlet or shower, and stagnate into selfishness. Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography To send the river on its way, With ever deepening strength and force, Oh! think how long 'twas let to play, A happy streamlet, near its source. Poems A silver thread of streamlet, swift but shallow, runs noisily through the meadows beside the town and loses itself in the Chad, about a mile and a half farther eastward. In the Days of My Youth She thought to herself that here was the beginning of a great career—the moment when the streamlet finds its bed, and enters upon its true and destined course. Fenwick's Career Bright-leaved autumn flowers lie in masses on the rich brown earth, and dainty streamlets come rushing downward in little sculptured troughs. The Italians The little streamlet, lately all crystal and sunshine, was now turbid and bloody. Overland That Source from which, meandering down, A thousand streamlets circle now; For then the monarch's glorious crown But girt the most rapacious brow. Poems
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