| 单词 | rill |
| 例句 | He returned to the bank, close to where the rill from the spring trickled out into the River. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z It had nothing to do with a rill. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z All about them now, as if there had been a sudden flood, wide pools of water lay beside the road, filling the hollows, and rills went trickling down among the stones. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She says that for two weeks rill there’s nothing left but the beam frame. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The piano rills through its finishing measures, and then the static wallops back. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It was a rill, a rivulet, a trickle, no wider than her arm ... and her arm had grown thinner every day she spent on Dragonstone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Here and there it passed over other rills, running down gullies into the Withywindle out of the higher forest-lands, and at these points there were tree-trunks or bundles of brushwood laid carefully across. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The townlands were rich, with wide tilth and many orchards, and homesteads there were with oast and garner, fold and byre, and many rills rippling through the green from the highlands down to Anduin. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Ever since she set foot in the Catskills, she has talked about, and gone out of her way to find, cascades, cataracts, waterfalls, rills, riffles and niagaras. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In between spring storms, Jake’s telescope allowed me to walk down the rills and climb the mountains and stroll the maria of the moon in my mind. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I looked around for the rill, but couldn’t see it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z For three days, the air around Nya's home was filled with the sound of the d rill. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She laughed, and the sound was a clear rill bubbling over rocks and stones. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z I've been to the distant mountain, To the silver singing rill By the crystal murmering mountain, And the shady verdant hill. Charlotte Brontë poem manuscript sells for £92,000 2013-04-10T14:46:28Z Her voice is deep and sibilant, and it makes you think of the rills and the rivers of Clare, the county where she grew up. Doyenne of Irish fiction 2011-02-06T00:05:42Z It’s hard to ascribe majesty to such a dirty, ruin-crowded waterway, a rill so narrow it can be easily spanned by a well-thrown baseball. Can the Chicago River be saved? 2013-02-24T15:00:00Z And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, What’s on TV This Week, Feb. 12-18, 2023 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z My filly’s whinny, timid trill: I’m sitting by this icy rill, In wintry, frigid wild? Style Invitational Week 1514: Ask Backwards XLI 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Past gardens have included impressive boulder-strewn waterfalls, trickling rills and reflective ponds. The Northwest Flower & Garden Festival returns with all the promising colors, inspiration and hope of spring 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z All this lethal offal seeped and oozed into the ground, into the rills and runnels that flowed beneath our town, where we all drank well-water. Toxic Ghosts 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Water, and lack of water, is a recurring theme, represented by two ponds connected by a dry rill. In turbulent times, a magical art-filled garden offers solace 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z The air smells green, and secrets lurk in the creeks, rills and tree-shrouded coves. The story of one of the last slaves imported to America 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Scarps—such as the walls of rills—in a region several miles south of the landing site look like fault scarp. ARCHIVE: Surprises From the Moon—An Expert's Report 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z “The draft guidance is clear that irrigation ditches, drainage ponds, and even groundwater are not considered waters of the U.S. Nor are gullies, rills, swales and other erosional features,” she said. Farmers Fear Proposed Water Rules Will Require Costly Permits 2014-03-12T14:38:51Z As individual rills grow from incision, they capture smaller neighbors, forming tributaries. Solving the Mystery of River Formation 2012-12-05T18:10:00Z There may be greener vales and hills Less bare to shelter man; But still they want the naiad rills,15 And miss the pipe of Pan. Poems on Travel 2012-04-23T02:00:31.163Z John Willie, eating his supper almost savagely, had some ado to reply politely to June's rills of pretty speech. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z Larger, more branching, succulent; leaves mostly rounded above; underleaves often divided in halves or wanting.—On the ground among mosses or on rotten logs, common; the variety in shaded rills or still ponds. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z No such enchanting country as this is to be seen, even in a dream; in the worst weather, the little churches, and the numerous houses, and shrubs, and rills are still truly lovely. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z The slender rill had strayed But for the slanting stone, To evening’s ocean, with the tangled braid Of foam-flecked Oregon. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z Down by a sweetly-flowing rill, Where pure celestial dews distil, The lilies, clothed with beauty, rise, And bloom beneath cerulean skies. Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection 2012-04-06T02:00:31.240Z It ran in along the lining like a rill for about half an hour, when it stopped, probably closed by a counter pressure. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Flowers pale-yellow, sparingly dotted with brownish-red; sac dilated and very obtuse, broader than long, tipped with a short incurved spur.—Moist shady places and along rills, in rich soil; most common northward. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z There are no dwellings to be seen, no merry brooks or rills; only an occasional stream, its broad bed dried up, or a little 45 water-channel. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z But the rill joins the river at last; and ofttimes suddenly and at a bound, as it were. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z Cold poured the sweat in freezing rill; A rising wind began to sing; And louder, louder, louder still, Brought storm and tempest on its wing. In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding 2012-03-26T02:00:41.847Z What works of thanksgiving, small but beneficent as the tiny rills which steal downward through the ferns to the pasture, he had planned. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z River and fountain, brook and rill, Bespangled o'er with livery gay Of silver droplets, wind their way. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z Over the white Genoa of the jewel case shone, and rippled, and sparkled in rills of liquid fire, a necklace, tiara, and bracelet of perfect stones, perfectly matched. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z Bacon has a delicious smell, and, like a freshly cut lemon, it causes a premonitory tickling of the palate and little rills of hunger in one's stomach. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z And in this connection, it may be said that the dramatists of this period poured some of their rills of philosophy, wit and satire into the popular channels. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z With rills of sympathy running down his cheeks, he assured her he had a wife—a wife that he loved—and that for her sake the table-cloth should be given up. Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent 2012-03-10T03:00:13.687Z Tiny rills made music as they trickled through the foliage; and near at hand was a path trodden by herds of antelopes as they came to drink. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z And where is a more beautiful description of a midsummer evening, than Arnold's exquisite lines beginning:— "The evening comes; the fields are still; The tinkle of the thirsty rill." Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z The waters spring up in every direction, as little rills, each of which performs its part. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z THE singer walks by wood and rill, By town and stately river, And varied scenes his vision fill, And make his pulses quiver. Songs Ysame 2012-03-04T03:00:13.113Z The mole stands out into the sea, and there is no fresh water near it, save a very little rill, which discharges its tiny stream more than fifty yards off. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z How is it possible that one or two such little rills should fill so great a channel? The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z George was wiping up a rill of gravy and milk from the porcelain table, and a man was getting ready to sit down opposite. Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z But the voice of the rill penetrates far enough for those who have ears to hear. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z Upon the banks of streams, or often upon a shaded hillside where some little rill trickles out from a hidden source, it spreads its branches and lifts its canopy of ample leaves. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The mole stands out into the sea, and there is no fresh water near it, save a very little rill, which discharges its tiny stream more than fifty yards off. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z A small rill of water trickled down from the rock above it, and, losing itself among the moss and grass, fell over the precipice below, which, indeed, was of a frightful depth. The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z Pipes of the misty moorlands, Voice of the glens and hills; The droning of the torrents, The treble of the rills! The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades 2012-02-16T03:00:03.167Z Their mind is no scanty, turbid rill, rejoicing to be daily fed from a thousand others, or from the clouds. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z The little rill becomes a torrent, and soon there are waters to swim in. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Sweet the lark's wild-warbled lay, Sweet the tinkling rill to hear; But, Delia, more delightful still, Steal thine accents on mine ear. A Little Book of Old Time Verse Old Fashioned Flowers 2012-02-13T03:00:15.823Z The next day's journey, made under an unclouded sky, was mainly along the Zainderud, from which all the channels and rills which nourish the vegetation far and near are taken. 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 Then sing aloud the gushing rills In joy that they again are free, And, brightly leaping down the hills, Begin their journey to the sea. The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades 2012-02-16T03:00:03.167Z Wherever this impulse of social or political reform darts up its rill through the crusts of selfishness, scoff and dread also arise, and hang like a heavy mist above it. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z A dark rill gurgles at the bottom, here and there leaping into beautiful cascades, and flinging its glittering spray among the dark woods. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z The little valley deepened rapidly, the sides became rocky and broken, and to Nat's satisfaction they presently came to a spot where a little rill of water flowed out from a fissure in the rock. A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti 2012-02-06T03:00:13.023Z The lonely dwellers by the lofty rills, Gazed in surprise upon th' unwonted sight, The wandering shepherds saw it from the hills, And quick descended from their airy height. The Isle of Palms and Other Poems 2012-02-04T03:00:15.103Z The Conemaugh, a tributary stream to the Kiskiminetas takes its rise here, and appears as a very little rill at its commencement. Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z All13 the rich merchants of the city had pleasure-houses here surrounded by rich orchards and arbours of jessamine, and watered by rills and streams. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.207Z Slow stealing from the tangled brake, That skirts the distant hill, With noiseless hoof two bright fawns make For yonder lapsing rill; Meek children of the forest gloom, Drink on, and fear no ill! The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z There might be two acres of water, but no rill could be seen running into it. The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo 2012-01-19T03:00:22.827Z There is a lake hid far among the hills, That raves around the throne of solitude, Not fed by gentle streams, or playful rills, But headlong cataract and rushing flood. The Isle of Palms and Other Poems 2012-02-04T03:00:15.103Z There was a little footpath that led down by a rill to the lake, and as I took it, there was scarcely a sound louder than the soft down-rustle of the painted leaves. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z Sadly sings the whip-poor-will In the boughs of yonder tree; Laughingly the dancing rill Swells the midnight melody. Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z The thought is not quite the same as that intended to be conveyed by such a phrase as 'silver stream of Thames,' but pictures the bright, pellucid, silvery whiteness of a clear mountain rill. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:22.977Z Or, watching by the babbling rill Gushing in pureness from the hill, Think thence poison to distil? The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z Other visitants It hath not; save perchance the mountain-crow, When ice hath lock'd the rills, or wandering colt Leaving its pasture for the shady lane. The Isle of Palms and Other Poems 2012-02-04T03:00:15.103Z By cool Siloam's shady rill How fair the lily grows, How sweet the breath beneath the hill Of Sharon's dewy rose. Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress 2012-01-12T03:00:14.550Z There is a tongue in every leaf, A voice in every rill— A voice that speaketh everywhere, In flood, and fire, through earth and air! Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z The rills of travel from all parts of the West converged at Niagara Falls and then passed on to join the steamboats for Lake Ontario. A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River 2012-01-11T03:00:29.487Z The remainder stole forth in many a channel; like unseen rills, betraying its course only by the riches which it brought. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z Many are cheerful when a sparkling rill of pleasure is gurgling in their hearts, or when prosperity encircles them, or looms up gorgeously in their prospective vision. Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields 2012-01-07T03:00:15.907Z Under the mid-day sun the rails quivered like rills of molten steel. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z The wind is Winter, though the sun be Spring: The icy rills have scarce begun to flow; The birds unconfidently fly and sing. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z At the foot of the lengthy slope, well watered by bubbling springs and mountain rills, we found a comfortable Khembi with well-made huts, which the natives call Simbo. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z Neptune—“The clouds pay tribute, and streams and rills Come singing from the distant hills.” Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z If authors had their rights, a rill of Russian silver would come trickling into Concord, while a broad and brimming river of it would inundate a certain cottage in Hartford. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z When I drink, and perfume stills Around me all in balmy rills, Then as some beauty, smiling roses, In languor on my breast reposes, Venus! The Odes of Anacreon 2011-12-08T03:00:29.763Z The lowing kine on a distant hill, The rollicking fall Of the near-by rill And the lazy drone of the ancient mill, Are the joys of a summer morning. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z I drank some water from a rill that came tumbling down through a bank of ferns, and felt better. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z Snakes, lizards, roots, gum, bulbs, fruit and an occasional snared buck or rock-rabbit; these, and a little rill of water that gushed from the mountain-side hard by, supplied him with existence. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z Ever and anon Orpheus proclaims her name in tones so pitiful that— "The rocks and rills and surrounding hills Feel pity, and are touched." Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z Yet the filling of such rills would be cheaply bought by the waste of whole sums spent in getting a little of the down-flowing torrent to enter them. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z I made a verse about sunset:– Softly doth the sun descend To his couch behind the hill, Then, oh, then, I love to sit On mossy banks beside the rill. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z In the yards lay snow, and rills ran down the village. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z I love her, and my purest pleasure is derived from that source—a capacious basin, and but a rill flows into it. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Other listeners had been attracted by the melody, but we stood in a shadow, near a rill that fell into the mere. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z Human cerebration is the most important rill we know of, and both the "capacity" and the "intensity" factor thereof may be treated as infinitesimal. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Tommy looked longingly up into the trees, but it was impossible to climb them, and the girls hurried on again, expecting to find somewhere a rill trickling from the high ground to the sea. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z The girls were running and laughing at a chip which was bobbing up and down the rill. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z To guide the hurrying flood that fills A thousand silvery, rippling rills In ever widening flow. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z Thus, when the demon Thirst, beneath his power The wanderer bows,—to feverish sleep consigned, He hears the rushing rill, and feels the cooling shower.' The Bront? Family, Vol. 2 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:25.173Z We climbed the rising ground, and presently, among the trees, came to the place where the little rill emerged from the broken ground in the highest part of the wood. Chronicles of Martin Hewitt 2011-10-24T02:00:16.617Z It is overhung on p. 494the east and north by frightful crags, from which it is fed by a number of small rills. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z While she was scratching, Mal�sha came up and began to help her: she picked up a chip and widened the rill. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z Above the centre looms the mount from which 70 The fountain gushes that divides in four, And waters all the land, refreshing trees And fields; and flows in unreflective rills Of crystal purity. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z His blood had too much lightning to be still, His spirit was the torrent, not the rill, The gods have loved him, and the Eternal Hill Is his at last! Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z Its glaciers send down a thousand rills which combine to form the Pangani river. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z He comes against your will, man, And sneaks around to kill, man; The rippling of his rill, man, Is never pure. By Trench and Trail in Song and Story 2011-09-24T02:00:15.120Z The peasants had begun to fight, just as the water went down the rill toward the place where the old woman was trying to separate the men. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z Down these mountains meandered little golden rills that fed the lake. The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy 2011-09-18T02:00:22.467Z Dear South! though thy beautiful forests and hills, Thy emerald valleys and silvery rills, Are subject to strangers—not free as of yore— Thus changed, and in sorrow, I love thee the more. Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z Come where the bright star of even is beaming; Come where the moonlight o'er valley and hill, O'er castle and cot in golden flakes streaming, Shimmers on lake and leaf—glints on the rill. Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride 2011-09-12T02:00:28.290Z Nay, more; the mind wherein her fulness dwells Can beauty and sublimity instil In all created things, till it excels Even herself, though nurtured at her rill. Vacation Verse 2011-09-11T02:00:09.897Z The girls ran, one from one side of the rill, the other from the other side. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z There are olives and pomegranates Green and gold among the hills, Miles of vineyards through the valleys Fed by rills. The Piper and the Reed 2011-09-10T02:00:23.967Z Domed with sapphire is the sky; Haze of opal hath the hills; Brown the brooks that rushing by Call to their companion rills; These their joyous welcome bring— Hail! His Lady of the Sonnets 2011-09-10T02:00:23.740Z "The sun shines bright, and the moss-brown tarn is more limpid than the running rill." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z In my ears trilled the pretty melody of a million little snow rills running in the sunshine. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z Where the sun had not dried off the frost that trickled down the road in murmuring rills, the bark of the trees was pleasing to the eye by its fantastic appearance. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z The morning star pales in the sky— The paschal moon dips down the hills— The vineyards in the valley lie Veiled in the mist of many rills. The Piper and the Reed 2011-09-10T02:00:23.967Z The summer 17 sun melts the ice ever so little, and those who venture near the edge find rills of water flowing down the sides of the great cakes and boulders. Little Folks of North America Stories about children living in the different parts of North America 2011-09-01T02:00:19.377Z “Spring is coming:” every rippling rill, every sparkling brook, were singing or saying it. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z It was frequently a log of wood hollowed out, Indian fashion, like a dug-out, filled with the lavish bounty of untrammelled Nature by a cool pure rill from a hillside spring. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z Oh, I was born where waters leaping, Cascade down the green, green hill; Oh, I was born where lambkins bleating, Leap along the clear, clear rill. Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated 2011-08-31T02:01:20.473Z Afterward approached a fair lady, wearing a green gauze mantle, from which dripped little rills of water with a musical splash, and wherever they fell upon the pavement there formed pearls. The Cricket's Friends Tales Told by the Cricket, Teapot, and Saucepan 2011-08-23T02:00:33.033Z Know'st thou the land of the rivers and rills, The boon of the lowlands, the joy of the hills? Canada, My Land and Other Compositions in Verse 2011-08-23T02:00:28.813Z I had it regularly, and my drink was the pure water from the neighbouring rill. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z Her pillow was all wet With tears that still flowed on; and faster yet They flowed in quickening rills, until I thought I stood beside a torrent wide that sought An unknown sea. Songs of Womanhood 2011-08-21T02:00:31.203Z O! make me one with the wondrous earth, God of the woods and the laughing rills! The Dales of Arcady 2011-08-16T02:00:42.740Z A waterfall 150 feet high is not intrinsically any more poetic than one but half that height; or a thunder-peal than the tinkle of a rill. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z Ye murmuring streams, whose winding way Through flowery meads and woodlands lay, And every limpid rill, And all ye feathered tribes of air, With voices sweet and plumage fair, Accept my last farewell. Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z The 169 vast regions of the West are penetrated by rivers, to which those of Europe are but as rills and brooks. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z The ice-cold springs grow hot in its fierce overwhelming wave, the purling rills hiss and boil and shrink before it, then vanish from their seared beds. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z He bowed to the earth, with an old-world grace, Then lifted his eyes to my sun-tanned face: "So you are the Mortal who drank from our rill, A cordial welcome to Bilberry Hill!" The Dales of Arcady 2011-08-16T02:00:42.740Z The mirror-surface of the moorland tarn lies lead-coloured and dull, wrinkled by the night-breeze, and its icy waters trickle in tiny rills over the bare plain and down to the valley. The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z The hind had fled, the poacher seized his prey--a slender rill of blood trickled noiselessly through the stones, then everything was once more silent and lifeless. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z A rill that empties itself into the sea can never be separated from it. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z 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 I steadily gazed at my silent pen, Attempting to keep from my straying ken An Eden of woods, of bosoming hills, Of verdant hedges, of wandering rills. The Dales of Arcady 2011-08-16T02:00:42.740Z Although it was past four o'clock, the winter sun was looking brightly into the room, and upon the roofs below their windows the snow was melting into little rills. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z As we make a journey to a birthplace we keep meeting the rills and tributaries to which we are so much indebted. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z Grant me, from thy crystal rill, Oft my glittering cup to fill; Let thy dwelling, rude and high, Make my nightly canopy, And, by superhuman walls, Ward the dew that nightly falls. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z From its very center sprang a tiny spring, forming a clear, glassy pool of water which narrowed into a tiny trickling rill that went creeping through the grass-carpeted arbor to the larger stream beyond. Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life 2011-07-07T02:00:27.303Z Then, as mine eyes escaped his ardent glance, I saw a star peep o'er the purple hill And climb up to the topmost branch and dance, And wink at its reflection in the rill. The Dales of Arcady 2011-08-16T02:00:42.740Z In the center of this enlargement bubbles a fountain of cool and refreshing water, whence trickles a crystal rill down the entire length of the gorge. The History of Peru 2011-06-27T02:01:04.487Z In this charming and sequestered spot is a cold bath supplied by a copious and transparent rill, which springs at the foot of the winding cliff, and ripples down the side of the declivity. The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble 2011-06-12T02:00:06.820Z And so, with both, did life glide softly along in the catacomb like a rill. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z I saw the crimson streak to which she referred; but a swift intimation flashed upon me that this was no ribbon, but a little rill of blood flowing from a gash cut by Ricos’s wheel. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z The hill and the wood and the rippling rill The air with different melodies fill; Where bonnibel April latest was sent, When May filled the world with her wonderment! The Dales of Arcady 2011-08-16T02:00:42.740Z She became excited and sat up straighter in her chair, and her strange little laughter rippled like a rill among pebbles. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z What multitudes of white lambs, uncertain in the legs, staggered and tottered about the pasture lands! and what musical rills of joy in the mountain streams escaping through the sunshine from their prisons of ice! Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z As she went up stairs, something happened that she did not expect; there stole into her heart as it were a rill of gladness, which swelled and grew. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z You are not to take the intellectual in the one, nor the immortal in the other, for their rills spring from deeper sources, and represent the individual. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z The land was most beautiful, and the grass as gorgeous as purple; it was studded with flowers, and was traversed by honey rills. Curious Myths of the Middle Ages 2011-05-19T02:00:06.517Z It had brought a colour to his face, a light to his eyes; ere the one had faded, and the other failed, Robert Carlton's will had frozen that tiny rill of comfort at its fount. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z The water spouts up from the ground And there doth form a pond around, 'Tis fed from no apparent rills, And it near by drives several mills. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z All the little rills and rivulets hereabouts produced a Potamogeton, which I was doubtful whether to distinguish from the common kind, as it varies excessively in appearance, but the leaves are more grassy. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland 2011-05-10T02:01:00.460Z Across the Sunny Meadow grass The little breezes love to pass, They tickle all the cattails till They almost fall into the rill. Little Jack Rabbit and Chippy Chipmunk 2011-05-09T02:00:03.903Z The great elevations rising from the floors of the "deeps" are upraised blocks of the earth's crust which have not been beaten by rain, shattered by frost, or trenched by rills, creeks, or rivers. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z The beck had diminished to a rill, and presently I came to its source—a delicious spring bubbling from a rock, and took a quickening draught. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z The Thames and tributary rills, Here they do drive numerous mills, Enabling millers to compete To pay high price for oats and wheat. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z Again: The torrent rill That winds unseen beneath the shaggy fell, Touched by the blue mist well. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z Now before I go on with this story I'll explain right away that the "rill" is the Bubbling Brook, and the only reason I used "rill" is because it rhymes with "till." Little Jack Rabbit and Chippy Chipmunk 2011-05-09T02:00:03.903Z The steep slopes are worn into alcoves and irregular recesses by the transient rills, and smoothed or etched by the wind-driven sands. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z And if thou com'st by these clear rills to reign, Bring thy dear son, thy darling son, with thee; For there be none that own his empire here. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z There was a fountain in a more quiet corner of a street, where a tiny rill of water trickled from the mouth of a stone dolphin into a basin below. The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville 2011-03-31T02:00:19.850Z A hundred rills and rivers of humanity have fed it. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z We were now reduced to the necessity of looking out for fresh water, with which we were plentifully supplied by the rills that ran down from the mountains. Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. II 2011-03-24T02:00:13.247Z Many rills and rivulets are born on the valley sides of a single storm, but are absorbed by the thirsty soil or evaporated during the succeeding hours of sunshine. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z The Canzoniere reminds us of no single spot; wherever there are clear fresh rills and hanging mountains, the lover walks with Petrarch by his side. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Fitter for our eyes the waterfall over against it, the torrent of human affairs, broken into a myriad rills. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z The stream all runs into their pockets, and not one little rill is suffered to run into the pockets of those who do the work. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z The sea does not reckon how many little rills run into it. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z Some of those situated principally in the mountains are of pure, limpid, wholesome water, supplied by cool, sweet brooks and rills or by the melting of the winter's snows, and overflow throughout the year. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z He stood in a wet place on the deck, and little rills of water dripped from him. Sanders of the River 2011-03-12T03:00:26.427Z In summer day, the fragrant hay Most sweetly scents the breeze; And all is still, save murm’ring rill, Or sound of humming bees. The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens 2011-03-11T03:00:15.587Z Valleys richly rounded; The undulating, broadly breasted hills; The vast plains which the veiled horizon bounded, Lit by the silver flash of restless rills. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z I love the stillness of the wood: I love the music of the rill: I love to couch in pensive mood Upon some silent hill. Three Sunsets and Other Poems 2011-03-08T03:00:46.420Z The river had tapered into a little rill. The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike 2011-03-06T03:00:22.017Z For wherever those nights the talk might rise, in the little rills of accidental words, it always flowed down to the deep underlying thoughts of men. The Master of the Inn 2011-02-26T03:00:51.930Z Frankfort could see her distinctly from where he sat; they were only severed from each other by the ravine through which sang the rill that irrigated the vineyard. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z Constantly running down the side of the fissure, yet never reaching the bottom of it, these rills were an ever-active example of the laws of condensation and vaporization in nature. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z He further urges the diversion of turbid rills, after rains, over grass lands, and altogether makes a better compend of this branch of the subject than can be found in the Roman writers proper. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z One might as well dam up a mountain rill with one's hands—it would simply flow over the top of them, or round about them. Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro 2011-02-11T03:00:26.280Z Gales from heaven, if so He will, Sweeter melodies can wake On the lonely mountain rill Than the meeting waters make. The Torn Bible Or Hubert's Best Friend 2011-02-09T03:00:51.890Z She sent her little dusky page to the rill and rose to follow him. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z From the roots of these trees numberless little rills ran back into the abyss. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z They were at points where a rill crossed the road, or the road crossed the corner of a marsh. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z My dear is like a merry bird, My dear is like a rill, Like all sweet things or seen or heard, Only she's sweeter still. A Round Dozen 2011-02-07T03:00:26.887Z “Little rill, which down the mountain, Like a silver thread dost flow, Tell me now before you leave me, Why you are in haste to go?” The Boys' And Girls' Library 2011-02-06T03:01:02.953Z Finally the torrent of popular criticism subsided, to settle down into a trickling rill of authentic information. The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation 2011-02-06T03:01:00.547Z There is a large fountain of these running in ten thousand rills. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:16.820Z When the sun set we prepared to camp, selecting a spot near a tiny rill. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z By wells and rills, in meadows green, We nightly dance our heyday guise; And to our fairy King and Queen, We chant our moonlight minstrelsies. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z Then Hurrah for the north, with its woods and its hills; Hurrah for its rocks, and its lakes and its rills! Wayside Weeds 2011-01-23T03:00:17.230Z A crystal rill I fain would be, And down the deep dell then I'd go; Close to his cottage I would flow. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z She can convert the white water of the rill into rich red wine and the threads of the spiders into a tartan plaid. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Another and even less conspicuous feature is furnished by the rills, which, under favorable conditions of illumination, appear like long cracks on the moon's surface, perhaps analogous to the ca�ons of our Western country. A Text-Book of Astronomy 2011-01-05T03:00:57.347Z For three years Napoleon's self-appointed task as a historian was unremittingly pursued, and the results, while he had the assistance of Las Cases and Gourgaud, were voluminous; thereafter the output was a slender rill. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z The tiny mountain paths had, many of them, by this time become rills and torrents, and our horses were frequently knee-deep in water. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z 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 The rill purled, the leaves fell as before. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z By wells and rills, in meadows green We nightly dance out hey-day guise And to our fairy king and queen We dance our moonlight minstrelsies. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z There could scarcely be a more favourable place for vegetation than this, exposed to the sun, sheltered from the cold, and moderately watered by little rills which trickled down the mountain. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z 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 At twilight tide The sounds that from the valley swell, Soft breathing lute and herdsman's bell, Are sweeter far Than music of cold mountain rills. The Two Twilights 2010-12-25T03:00:12.393Z He pointed to a clearing below them, through which a rill trickled, and which was closely grown with tender, juicy grass of a vivid green. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z But the place was clean, and the spring that rose in the center of the trees and trickled itself into a reed-bordered rill, was cold. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z Twilight was just falling, the river murmured in low melody, and a few rods above a small rill entered it, adding a more musical tinkle. The Girl From Tim's Place Innumerable little rills of pellucid water descended from it. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. So let it be: before I lived to sigh, Thou wert in Avon, and a thousand rills, Beautiful Dian! and so whene'er I lie Trodden, thou wilt be gazing from thy hills. Heathen Mythology She ran ahead of him, back into the woods, and came again upon the path leading along the rill. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z The youngster wandered down to the rill, and stooped swiftly to catch a green frog in his hands. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z A few foam flecks from an unseen rill above floated down. The Girl From Tim's Place We afterwards descended to M�rill, where we met our guide and driver; thence down the valley to Visp; and the following evening saw us lodged at the Monte Rosa hotel in Zermatt. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. And as I sat over the light blue hills, There came a noise of revellers; the rills Into the wide stream came of purple hue, 'Twas Bacchus and his crew. Heathen Mythology Thus they walked at each other's side to the spot where the rill was caught up in a rotting wooden conduit, from which it spouted with a soft singsong. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z The little people of the reeds and grass Murmur their blithe, companionable lore, The rills renew their minstrelsy. The Cup of Comus Fact and Fancy The Arab by his palm-girt desert pool, The Laplander above his frozen rill, The Woodsman crouched beside his forest brook, The shepherd mirrored in his upland spring, Drink of my cup in one great brotherhood. The Coast of Bohemia It was perfectly manifest that this snow formed a receptacle for the fine dirt transported by the innumerable little rills which trickled over the glacier. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. May is past—along the hollows Chime the rills in sleepy tune, While the harvest's yellow chaplet Swings against the face of June. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 From the wide sea leaps up no voice, Mute is the forest, mute the rill; Whilst the glad earth sang forth Rejoice, God's whisper said—Be still. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 They saw no running water, for the tiny rill that trickled down the ledges was matted over with vines. Into the Primitive The small rill which fed that long, deep, shadowed channel fell into it out of a massive stone tank. The Red Mustang Call on thy children of the hill, Wake swamp and river, coast and rill, Rouse all thy strength, and all thy skill, Carolina! Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches She paused, while the orchestra took up their part, and then again the rills began to flow, gently, fiercely, madly, sadly, wildly. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Fed by a thousand springs and purling rills, Ocean’s internal, the wild torrent fills. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact On either side of the rill the grass and brush flared like tinder, and the flames swept up the cleft far quicker than we had expected. Into the Primitive The masonry was overgrown with vegetation everywhere except at the place where the rill poured out. The Red Mustang The emotion suddenly unloosed is like a river whose source is amid the silent hills, that gathers in its course a thousand rills, until at last it sweeps in mighty floods everything before it. Victory out of Ruin It was Stella whose fingers were causing those rills of melody to flow. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Fed by a thousand springs and purling rills, Ocean’s internal, the wild torrent fills. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact Blake picked a path along the edge of the rill, where the moist vegetation, though scorched, had refused to burn. Into the Primitive This rill was planked over until it got away from the ranch, but it ran out into the sunshine then, and travelled gayly on to the corral. The Red Mustang As he progressed, the leaping rill grew to a gurgling brook, widened to a splashing stream, hurrying over pebbly bed until it deepened to a slumberous pool spanned by a rustic bridge. Our Admirable Betty A Romance So joyously did the rills and ripples and fountains of her harmony rouse him from sleep that he refrained from criticizing her apparel, and sat contented in the sunlight to listen. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Till, like a silent water-mill, When summer suns have dried the rill, She reached a full stop, and was still. Rhyme? And Reason? The deluge of rain had poured down the cleft in a torrent, tearing away the root-matted soil and laying bare the ledges in the channel of the spring rill. Into the Primitive But there was a tender corner in her heart which was still green, and from which a little rill of sweet water could be made to flow when it was touched aright. Ayala's Angel Love had he found in huts where poor men lie, His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus She comes with gusts of laughter,— The music as of rills; With tenderness and sweetness,— The wisdom of the hills. Later Poems Brockway suddenly found the Denver eating-house cake very dry, but he could not take his eyes from her long enough to go and get a drink from the rill at the log-end. A Romance in Transit I who had bathed in fair Rosamond's crystal stream, was now doomed to be plunged in the inky rills that ran in the gutters round the sooty roofs. Tales of the Toys, Told by Themselves The poor little rills do a dozen tasks before they reach the laundresses and the beach. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu The spot for me all spots above In this wide world of casual lodgers, Is not the nook sacred to love; The "cot beside a rill" of Roger's. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 14 1890 The rain in springtime is soft and beautiful, lending voice, form and substance to the air, and to every tiny rill. On the Heights A Novel In a day of hot sunshine, or mild rain, innumerable rills of pure and sparkling water run in icy channels along the surface of the glaciers, which in the night shrink, and come to nothing. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Now November heavens are gray; Autumn kills Every joy—like leaves of May In the rills.— One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue They were bright in foliage, and leafy, and the streams that traversed the valley were small and tiny rills that showed no touch of the season of rains. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience Red sunset glimmers on the leaping rill, Dark night is near, and we have far to go. An Address, Delivered Before the Was-ah Ho-de-no-son-ne or New Confederacy of the Iroquois Also, Genundewah, a Poem Yes, an inn is like a great lake--all the little streams that flow from the different mountain rills concentrate there. On the Heights A Novel The powerful autumn sun soon melted it, and laughing rills ran down through all the little channels to the river in the valley. Landolin The trees were limp, and the rills of sparkling water that one reads about were represented by dusty, paved courses. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel They would have liked to go out into the fresh air; but it rained steadily, and there were puddles and small rills in the garden walks. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine She was so overwhelmingly lonely that a craving was upon her for human companionship which in some measure might rill the void. Lady Cassandra A tiny rill gradually became a boisterous stream, and the boisterous stream grew into a great river, which spread to all sections of the administration and ended by inundating the whole country. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" A little rill of vine is crossed by a short patch of corn, and among all the sprinkled foliage of fruit-trees, the olive, with the smallest leaf of all, is the most constant. London Impressions Etchings and Pictures in Photogravure Poisons the pellucid rills which should fertilize the soul of man! One Of Them It may be the same as an obsolete word “drill,” to trickle, flow in drops, also a small stream or flow of water, a rill, and is possibly an altered form of “trill.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Throned on the summit of the seven hills, He bathes his gory heel in Tiber's rills; Stretches his arms across a triple zone, And dares be master of mankind, alone! Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. A hundred rills disporting through the streets, trees, little houses built of stone, and painted white or red, communicated to the spot an aspect highly picturesque. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] My native country, thee-- Land of the noble, free-- Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills Like that above. The Bible Story A warm wind was blowing out of the valley, the snows were melting, and rills trickling everywhere into the green and swirling water. The Three Mulla-mulgars From such sources flow the rills that make the mighty rivers of stock enterprises, so that, having gathered up the spare cash of the shopkeepers and the annuitants, their bursting makes wide havoc. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. His own views however are a running rill of delight. Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison And beyond the fire-beams out in the solemn darkness, how impressive is the music of a choir of rills singing their way down from the snow to the river! My First Summer in the Sierra Here from the bowers that crown the plaintive rill The solemn harp's melodious warblings thrill; Here from the shadows of the upland grot The mellow lute renews the swelling note. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem It is made of tiny rills, and of great branches, all of which join to form this wonderful stream. Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks The waterfall had subsided into little trickling rills, coursing in straggling lines down the precipice. What Happened to Inger Johanne As Told by Herself There is a tiny water, neither rill, Motionless well, nor running brook, nor aught MS. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) There above, on the cliff, I see falling the glittering spray of a silver rill--amidst alders, amidst wild roses it springs. Saga of Halfred the Sigskald A Northern Tale of the Tenth Century It is thus, when the overloaded vapour bursts, that it descends— Sweet as the waters of the limpid rill. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem And on that morning, through the grass And by the steaming rills We travell'd merrily, to pass A day among the hills. The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes This rill of water fell in graceful drops from the extremities of the long marine grasses, as from the ends of a length of hair. Toilers of the Sea There is a noiseless water, neither rill, Nor spring enclosed in sculptured stone, nor aught MS. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) Schipper quotes from Thomas Moore: "Down in yon summervale Where the rill flows, Thus said the Nightingale To his loved Rose." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Slowly we ambled along—the weather was lowering and gloomy; there was not a trickling rill of water, nothing but dull sky above, and lava, always lava below! Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take; The laughing flowers that round them blow Drink life and fragrance as they flow. The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes Occasionally, a small rill three or four feet in length and six inches or so across may carry fragments of five or six individuals representing several genera. Preliminary Survey of a Paleocene Faunule from the Angels Peak Area, New Mexico There is a trickling water, neither rill, Fountain inclosed, or rivulet, nor aught MS. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) There all the voicing summer day They sing, the happy rills. Songs of the Army of the Night There are many fertile slopes luxuriating in fine trees and vegetation, and on all sides pure rills of water leaping into the bay. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia The sun upon the silent hills His mesh of beauty weaves, There's music in the laughing rills And in the whispering leaves. Fugitive Poetry Then pass admonished hence, Happy, thrice happy, if, through good or ill, Christian, thy heart respond to this forsaken rill. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 He was down in the little rill of running water, and partially hidden under a stone. Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 Oh, it is not the monied wealth dispensed by the resident great man; it is not the stream of affluence, flowing in its thousand tiny rills, and fertilising as it goes, we want. St. Patrick's Eve No rain had fallen; the clear rills that murmured in every gully were absorbed by the parched earth. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia At the sound, impatient, springs The mountain rill, with rippling glee, And rolling through the valley, brings Its tribute to the sea. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. Be thine Retirement's peaceful joys, And a life that makes no noise; Save when Fancy, musing long, Wakes her desultory song; Sounding to the vacant ear, Like the rill that murmurs near. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 Thy streams of praise, thy pure rills' ceaseless flow Make glad the nations wheresoe'er they go, Till, shedding purity on every side, They sink at length in boundless Ocean's tide. The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa To say that she was actually disturbed by these little rills of doubt would not be quite true. The Bartlett Mystery It was the time when one will thrill For indolent fields, serener skies; For Nature's softening subtleties Of higher cloud and gullied rill. Blooms of the Berry "March!" and upon each sunny hill Old winter's allies, ice and snow, Start at the music of the rill, And join its onward flow. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. In about an hour we resumed our march on a tolerably good road, but crossed by little rippling rills almost every half-mile, which kept our feet continually damp and cold. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment He dimpled the cheek of the rill With a cooling kiss. Song-Surf The little song-sparrow is gone And the summer is nearly ended, The rill of his song was a happy rift In the surging sound of the sea. Sea Poems "I ride by tree, I ride by rill, I ride by rye and clover, For by the kirk beyond the hill Awaits a better lover." Blooms of the Berry Brown meadows and the russet hill, Not yet the haunt of grazing herds, And thickets by the glimmering rill Are all alive with birds. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 They could not foresee how the little rill was to widen into a broad stream, and what far-reaching results it would have. Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind It seems that dawn will never climb The eastern hills; And, clad in mist and flame and rime, Make flashing highways of the rills. The Garden of Dreams They both looked like drowned rats, the water slipping from the buffalo hair and pouring from them in little rills. Bring Me His Ears It was therefore a sudden immediate inspiration, a little rill of lava flowing out of a poetic volcano, solidified at once. Life of John Keats Deep down beneath the snow they listened to the tinkle of rills unreached by the frost—and merry, thought they, was the music of these contented prisoners. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) You hear it in the trebling laughter, in the trills and rills of the brook babbling down, sound softened by the moss as all sounds are hushed and low keyed in this woodland world. Through Our Unknown Southwest All these are the evidence of that infinite and incomparable blessing hidden within, which sends forth such little drops and tiny rills. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) 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. A tooth projected, green as a fresh almond is; the chin projected too, and from it on one side a rill of saliva dripped upon the naked breast. Mary Magdalen A rill soon becomes a stream—a stream a river—a river a loch—and a loch a sea. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) How sweet the music of the purling rill, Trickling adown the grassy hill! The Upward Path A Reader For Colored Children As a rill from a fountain increases as it flows, rises into a stream, swells into a river, so symbolically are the origin and course of a good name. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 A low and dark ravine Beneath a rugged hill, Where stood the Boykin Mill Spanning the creek, whose rill Flows dark an deep. The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War "I have at command," he wrote, "a rill of water, a shady wood, a rocky cave, and roots of fern, for every one of these would-be anchorites." A History of the English Church in New Zealand So from the heights of will Life's parting stream descends, And, as a moment turns its slender rill, Each widening torrent bends. Home Life of Great Authors “Gracious rills from the Hazlitt watershed have flowed in all directions, fertilizing a dry and thirsty land”—is the happily turned phrase of Mr. Birrell. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature He paused to listen; there was a sound other than the tinkling of the little rill near at hand or the blare of the autumn wind. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories Then on we climbed till ten o’clock, to a point about 9000 feet, where we stopped for lunch in a quiet mountain glen, by the side of a rippling mountain rill. Across Asia on a Bicycle Fruits escape late frosts when growing near rills or small brooks. Soil Culture My native country, thee, Land of the noble free,— Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills Like that above. The Little Book of the Flag Listen close Till the right note flows forth, a silvery rill: Then shall the huge bell tremble—then the mass With myriad waves concurrent shall respond In low, soft unison. The Voice Its Production, Care and Preservation In the hollow of a ravine we found a tiny rill of water, and there we camped. Gold The mists above the morning rills Rise white as wings of prayer; The altar curtains of the hills Are sunset’s purple air. Happy Days for Boys and Girls The water-cress, growing spontaneously by rills and springs, is a kind of wild peppergrass, and is by some persons more esteemed than the garden variety. Soil Culture All is still Save the rapt nightingale, that sings to rest Earth's warring multitudes, and this bright rill Whose voice is eloquent as poesy. Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems It buried him deep and as he leapt from his machine little rills of singing sand flowed around it. Shadow Mountain That richly satisfying, inward sight, she could not take from him, that exultant faith which was warmed and fed from a thousand secret rills. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart A brief extract shall be given: 'His praise, ye brooks, attune, ye trembling rills; And let me catch it as I muse along. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) Peaches grow wild by every rill; but the one side of the fruit is rotted by the rain, while the other is still green. An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take: The laughing flowers that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Select Poems of Thomas Gray But ever as he shot his arrows still In their mid course dropt down into the rill. Democritus Platonissans Close beside the road, seven clear rills ripple out into a small pool, and the air is musical with the sound of running water. The Thread of Gold But you are like a sparkling mountain rill, even if you do give me a severe classification.” Carmen Ariza Sometimes she collected water from a clear and constant rill that rolled along the valley, and recruited the force of plants that were exhausted by the sun. The History of Sandford and Merton A cloud of invisible vapor rises from the8 top of every tree and a thousand invisible rills enter it through its myriad hairlike rootlets. Under the Maples And on that morning, through the grass, And by the steaming rills, We travelled merrily, to pass A day among the hills. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer The market here in Bombay wuz the finest I ever see; it has a beautiful flower garden and park attached to it, and little rills of clear water run through the stun gutters. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife “Padre,” she began, sparkling like a mountain rill in the sunlight as she seated herself before him. Carmen Ariza All these little rills, which water others, little compared with the fountain from which they flow, have no determinate choice of their own, but are governed by the will of their Lord and Master. Letters of Madam Guyon Birds and flowers and trees and springs and mills were something, but human flowers and rills of human life were better. Under the Maples "Love had he found in huts where poor men lie, His daily teachings had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer I wait not now by the dancing rill For the steps of my playmates fair— They are gone—but yon heaven is o'er me still, And I'll seek to meet them there. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 The latter, with deepest soul-thirst, quenched by rills of living water springing not here; with heart-longings satisfied by an infinite, tender, divine Love, pass through the earth strangers and pilgrims, to the Rest of God. Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes Wilder forms of larch and hemlock climbed the mountain at its side; Fairy-like a rill came leaping where the quivering harebells sighed. Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Then sing aloud the gushing rills In joy that they again are free, And, brightly leaping down the hills, 54Renew their journey to the sea. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition "If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the spheres, How would he wish that Heaven had left him still The whispering zephyr and the purling rill!" Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer Long after the last white patch had melted or evaporated from the exposed slopes, these sheltered drifts would lie undiminished and when summer really came, they gave birth to scores of trickling rills. A Mountain Boyhood And he knew––for Bill Dancing had told him––that the one rill emptied at last into the Pacific Ocean, and the other into the Atlantic Ocean. The Mountain Divide The chilly wind blew and whistled, the water dashed along the ground, and careered in foamy rills along the roadside, and the bushes bent beneath the constant flood. Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 An Illustrated Magazine Far better 'twere to linger still In this green vale, these flowers to cherish, And die in peace, an aged rill, Than thus, a youthful Danube, perish. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition Last spring I heard the whisperings low To modest Daffodil That won her smile ere yet the snow Had melted and begun its flow Adown the little rill. The Loom of Life One little rill that flowed into the swift river of national trouble issued from the bosom of my clerk, Mr. ‘Cub’ Sayles. 'Charge It' Keeping Up With Harry My native country, thee Land of the noble free, Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills Like that above. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 Thousands of rills poured from the melting snow, filling the air with a musical tinkle as of many accordant bells. Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers Now May, with life and music, The blooming valley fills, And rears her flowery arches For all the little rills. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition When the morning has climbed up the high eastern hill And the sunlight is dancing on ripple of rill, The coroner summons a jury and feigns An inquest of law o'er the ghastly remains. The Loom of Life As soon as the rain ceased rills, brooks, creeks and cascades disappeared, their birth and death being equally sudden. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 Northward, the Mare Imbrium stretched mysterious and purple, its million rills and ridges and crater holes flattened by distance and the gathering darkness into a seeming level surface. Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 When the rain ceases, the rills, brooks, and creeks run dry. Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers Brown meadows and the russet hill, Not yet the haunt of grazing herds, And thickets by the glimmering rill, Are all alive with birds. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition He stooped to drink at a glacier-fed rill, and then producing a corn-cob pipe, sighed on finding that only the tin label remained of his cake of tobacco. Thurston of Orchard Valley I swing from the road and follow this gentle rill; I can not find a better companion now. The Book of Khalid The winds that still around that summit play, The sporting rill that far beneath it flows, Chant, where the Indian fell, their requiem o'er his woes. Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 Then over the hills, o'er the mountains and rills He'd caper, such was his delight; And ne'er in his days, Indian history says, Did lack a good supper at night, my brave boys. The Fall of British Tyranny American Liberty Triumphant The train has past Beside a dark stream into which are cast A hundred huddling rills whose foam is brown With pilfered soil. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Below and beyond them the scattered groves of Plum Creek stretched away up across the mesa––green bouquets on the slender silver ribbon of the creek’s midsummer rill. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation I can forgive the luring rill, which still smiles to me innocently from afar, but not the deluding, ensnaring ravine. The Book of Khalid Adown it trailed In zigzag curves erratic here and there Long lines of milky bloom, like rills of foam Furrowing the green back of some huge sea wave Refluent from cliffs. Legends of the Saxon Saints So we leave the twig and skimming over field and rill come into a land of flowers; and many of them are such flowers as I had just gathered. Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight There was a little splashing fountain near the garden's center—a rill of water which came down a little embankment and splashed into a pool where the rose light shimmered on the ripples. The World Beyond Our sixths in stream, but not in rill. Harper's Young People, June 15, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly And thus, from one circle of rocks to another, I pass through ten of them before I hear again the friendly voice of the rill, and behold again the comforting countenance of the sylvan slopes. The Book of Khalid The last named, besides presenting magnificent shadows when the sunlight falls aslant upon it, is the center of a complicated system of rills, some of which can be traced with our five-inch glass. Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers There's love on the hills, There is laughter and peace by the ice-covered rills, And the hearts shall rejoice in the songs that arise In the raptures that roll under storm-laden skies! Oklahoma Sunshine Only an occasional wind, a dry wind eddying and twisting, blew the sand up into little rills. The Crystal Crypt I've always heard that little pitchers had big ears, and many a rill runs to the sea. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia I cross the last rill, mount the last hilltop on my journey, and lo, at the foot of the gently sloping heath are the orchards and palms of Amsheet. The Book of Khalid Nor could the nymphs deny a boon So just; and instant all their rills and floods Burst forth. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II The rills, on the other hand, are actually fissures, about a mile or so in width and about a quarter of a mile in depth. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language The land was meshed with roaring rills of melting snow, and all around went on the incessant signalling of the marmots—the only cheerful sound in all the wide green land. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse He often dries every rill and fountain of earthly bliss, that He may lead you to say, “All my springs are in Thee.” The Words of Jesus It being about noon, we halted in the shade by the side of a little rill, trickling among the trees into the river beneath, to rest and lunch. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. A tear rolled down her cheek and its course was that of a rill in a dusty plain. The Belovéd Vagabond In addition to the craters there are two more features which demand notice, namely, what are known as rays and rills. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language Clefts or rills are long cracks or fissures of considerable depth, which extend sometimes for hundreds of miles across the various strata of which the Moon’s crust is composed. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' All the “words of Jesus” are so many rills contributing to make your peace flow as a river;—“These things have I spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace.” The Words of Jesus “The night is gone, and o’er the sea, The morning sun shines peacefully; Again ’tis calm, again ’tis still, Noiseless as gentle summer’s rill.” The Wreck on the Andamans Unless lyrical emotion be expressed in language as clear as a mountain rill, and as well defined as the rocks over which it runs, it is much better left unsung. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 When the baby's eyes are blue, Think we of a summer day, Violets, and dancing rills. Harper's Young People, January 20, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly I go up to the ancient hills, Where chains may never be; Where leap in joy the torrent rills; Where man may worship God alone, and free. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge The map of time disclosed, and every little rill of sorrow, every river will be seen to have been flowing heavenwards,—every rough blast to have been sending the bark nearer the haven! The Words of Jesus The salon retained its attractions, but its power was gone: the stream of life had become too broad and deep for such small rills to affect it. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete Scott takes the liberty of assigning a "rill" to this Scottish martyr of the fourth century on his own authority, unless his editors have been at fault in failing to discover the stream indicated. Lady of the Lake The first of the curious objects which he named "rills" was noted by him in 1787. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition Go ahead, Molly; sing about the rocks and rills, the crags and—and—” “Pills?” suggested Aurora. Dorothy's Triumph From those superb masses extend a series of plateaus like so many terraces which the more they descend the more they unfold the fruitfulness of the soil, irrigated by smooth rivers and rills. My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) The rill murmured a little in its stony bed, and, far overhead, he heard the wind sighing among the trees on the mountain. The Great Sioux Trail A Story of Mountain and Plain These little torrents, plashing down to the plain, formed numerous crystal rills that traversed the vallon. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Its top was very level and straight, and along its whole length the water trickled over in a succession of tiny rills. Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals The iron passes of the hills With question were importunate; And, but the sharp-tongued icy rills Had grown for once compassionate, The spiteful shades had had their wills. Gloucester Moors and Other Poems Come cheer my lonely mountain home, Where gleams the lake, where rills dance bright; Where flowers bloom fair—come dearest come And light my dark and starless night. The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad Then he kneeled and drank at the rill, as if he had been parching in a desert for days. The Great Sioux Trail A Story of Mountain and Plain We strayed on through the straggling trees, along the banks of the stream, by the edges of the little rills. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness He crossed it on a plank thrown across the rill. The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story Fair Sabrina, for this aid I pray that all the pretty rills will never cease to flow into your broad river. Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades What is superfluous is collected into little rills; these meeting with others, form brooks; the union of which produce rivers, that conduct the water to its original source, from which it is again circulated. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease The tinkle of the thirsty rill, Unheard all day, ascends again; Deserted is the half-mown plain, Silent the swaths! the ringing wain, The mower's cry, the dog's alarms, All housed within the sleeping farms! Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold On a path where thrushes wake—called Celia’s Way— Time after time She led me high among the rills. The New World At the outset were some little gaps in the path, representing brooks and rills. Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants or, Handling Their First Real Commands This is the Colorado—a rill; but when we have descended six thousand feet of altitude to its edge we find it a rushing turbulent torrent of muddy water. The Book of the National Parks Cold pour'd the sweat in freezing rill; A rising wind began to sing; A louder, louder, louder still, Brought storm and tempest on its wing. The Children's Garland from the Best Poets The hills, scaled by green rice-terraces, each with tiny rill and miniature cascade, are vocal with murmuring waters. Through the Malay Archipelago I know a proud damsel that dwells by the rill, On her thou couldst never accomplish thy will. p. Proud Signild and Other Ballads Before accepting he glanced suspiciously at me through the rills that streamed from his unprotected hat-brim. The Talking Horse And Other Tales Unfortunately that very spot had been already chosen by a small rill, a mere trickle of water, to come down. Little Brothers of the Air ‘Where now the rill, melodious, pure, and cool, ‘And meads, with life, and mirth, and beauty, crowned! The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems And, in some places, there were even little rills trickling along. The Boy Ranchers in Camp or The Water Fight at Diamond X As we pass over this barrier, a hollow rumbling is heard beneath; for the stream, at least at ordinary times, finds its way in many rills deep down among the stones. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 There many miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Surrounding halls of vast machinery. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 20, 1893 We can thus regard the friendship of Jesus on earth—like all ennobled, purified affections—as an emanation from the Divine; a sacred and holy rill, flowing direct from the Fountain of infinite love. Memories of Bethany We hurried down, and found numbers of fish struggling upward through the grass, in the rills formed by the trickling of the rain. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing The flow of life is yet a rill That laughs, and leaps, and glistens; And still the woodland rings, and still The old Damœtas listens. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature By the descending cut of the "rill" method these calamities can be in a measure avoided. Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration I sent the card right straight back to her, an' Cousin Jane seemed rill cut up, so I made up my mind I'd lay low about this card. Friendship Village The great stream of religious impulse has poured through these streets, and separated into its rills of distinctive opinion, without trepidation and without challenge. Humanity in the City He must have explored every rill and river of influence entering into his character. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror The stag at eve had drank his fill, When danced the moon on Monan's rill, And deep his midnight lair had made In lone Glenartney's hazel shade. Chronicles of Strathearn A further advantage in the "rill" cut arises in cases where horizontal jointing planes run through the ore of a sort from which unduly large masses break away in "flat-back" stopes. Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration An' Elspie, she let Eb out the front door herself, like they was rill folks. Friendship Village The air was chill, the sun was hidden 264 by old Solidor, and the stream had diminished to a silent rill winding among sear grass and yellowed willows. The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range “The head of this rill of water will bring us to the spring,” he said. The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview They are nothing else than the little rills into which the great river of life divides itself, flowing through the body of humanity. Creative Evolution The method of breaking the ore in conjunction with this means of support in comparatively narrow deposits can be on the rill, in order to have the advantage of down holes. Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration An' now I understood 'em like I see 'em for the first time, rill face to face. Friendship Village Sun, moon, and star; mountain, hill, and dale; torrent, waterfall, and rill, all became to him distinct personalities, powerful beings, that might do him great harm or much good. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire The sides of the mountains became covered with ten thousand rills, which joined their forces lower down, and developed into veritable cataracts, rushing with fearful and noisy tumult to the plain below. Chinese Folk-Lore Tales At the spring she paused in the act of filling her pail and stared at a mark in the mud at the edge of the tiny rill formed by the overflow from the catch basin. The Gold Girl There are two general forms which such stopes are given,—"horizontal" and "rill." Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration But I done the managin' behind the scenes, an' it went off rill well, an' I got the minister to drop a flower on Jennie's coffin instead of a pinch o' dirt. Friendship Village The muddy Ohio was flowing from him in plentiful rills, but one rifle was loaded, and he had of dry ammunition enough to serve. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" It was the hour when grooms do ride The coursers to the rill, That Orm set out resolved to wake The dead man in the hill. A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow In wireless telegraphy also the Receiver, perfected by Marconi, is affected by rills, made by a splash of electric discharge, over 3000 miles away. Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall It finds its most economical field where the dip of the stope floor is over 45°, when waste and ore, with the help of the "rill," will flow to their destination. Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration Her cheeks was some pink, an' the light made the shroud all pinkey, an' she looked rill nice. Friendship Village Mr. Whateley's distinction between a river, a rivulet, and a rill, form, perhaps, five of the most seductive pages of his book. On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions The size of the stream was steadily maintained, and no tributary rills were found to run into it, the long season of drought having apparently dried them all up. Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush The hills frowned no longer, but laughed with fertility and sparkled with a thousand fairy rills and cascades. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea One morn I missed him on the custom’d hill, Along the heath, and near his fav’rite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he. Graded Memory Selections But we stood out there sort o' occupyin' April, till after the big blue bowl o' feathery eggs had been popped in the big black oven, an' it was rill dark. Friendship Village Hence four limpid founts Nigh to each other ran, in rills distinct, Huddling along with many a playful maze. On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions The big black rock with torrents of water how gushing down its furrows and rills, was reached at last and to the delight of the wayfarers it did offer shelter. The Girl Scouts at Bellaire Or Maid Mary's Awakening Then, one by one, they bathed their eyes and faces at the rill, and soon they were all gathered together again at the door, feeling as if they had been re-created. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods ‘And then, after describing the beauty of Eden, with its rills and pellucid brooks bubbling through the fresh meads, he goes on: ‘Are not pure springs And chrystal wells The very things For our Hotels?’ The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 Land," she said, "sometimes I think I'll make some shrouds an' starch 'em up rill good, an' take 'em to the City an' offer to folks. Friendship Village Endymion": "And as I sat, over the light blue hills There came a noise of revellers: the rills Into the wide stream came of purple hue. Line and Form (1900) Before I lived to sigh, Thou wert in Avon, and a thousand rills, Beautiful Orb! and so, whene'er I lie Trodden, thou wilt be gazing from thy hills. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 They drank from the rill, lay down on their couches and ate the deer meat with splendid appetites. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods Yes," said his father, "every river, brook, and rill. Rollo's Philosophy. [Air] It was like other folks was the recipe an' Linda was the rill dish. Friendship Village A rill of blood snaked out from the pool around his head and touched the whitely glowing puddle and a jet of steam sizzled up. The Night of the Long Knives Though slow the daybeams creep along The serried pines which top the hills, And gloomy shadows brood among The silent valleys, and the rills Seem almost hushed—patience awhile! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy It was sweet and clean, full of fresh, pure air, and the tiny rill was trickling away merrily. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods The blossoms, down in the meadow, In the gardens, and woods, and the hills, Are singing, too, with their playmates, The birds, and the breezes, and rills. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature An' I was so happy—did you ever dream o' being happy, I mean if you wasn't so very happy in rill life? Friendship Village The two women shook hands a little stiffly and then a rill of long-repressed affection trickled out from some secret spring in Miss Cornelia's heart and she kissed her new-found old friend tenderly. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 They from their airy path looked down On many a wood and many a town, On lake and river, brook and rill, City and realm and towering hill. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse But the tone Of a past sorrow, like a mournful rill Threading the heart of some melodious hill, Or the complainings of the whippoorwill, Passes through every thought, and hope, and aim. Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics Thee— Land of the noble free,— Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills Like that above. America First Patriotic Readings I guess folks thinks I'm rill lunar when I take the notion. Friendship Village Other men have little rills and driblets of affection for sisters and cousins and aunts, but everything in me went out to you. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 For Sítá's loss each lofty hill Whose tears were waterfall, and rill, Lifting on high each arm-like steep, Seemed in the general woe to weep. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse As mountain rills, Sweet fell the stranger’s words. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman The swelling stream meanders on, Gives power to busy mills, And bears huge ships its breast upon, Gives drink to kine and lovely fawn, And drinks up other rills. Gleams of Sunshine Optimistic Poems It looked rill good, with the linen clean, though common. Friendship Village You dive down the first little hollow until you strike a rill of water, for water is a prime necessity. Woodcraft Or has she sought the pool or rill, Her pitcher from the wave to fill?” The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Voices Singing To His peace shalt thou yield thee; In His love shalt thou sleep; All the rills of thy valleys Shall merge in His deep. Mr. Faust As grains of sand make up the hill Which towers above the plain, And drops combine to swell the rill Which helps the mighty sea to fill, So does our influence gain. Gleams of Sunshine Optimistic Poems I could do some o' my embroidery," she observed, "but it's quite expensive stuff, an' I don't know whether it would sell rill well here in Friendship. Friendship Village My native country, thee— Land of the noble free— Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills, My heart with rapture thrills Like that above. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 They gazed on many a tree that showed The glory of its pendent load, And brook and limpid rill that made Sweet murmurs as they seaward strayed. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse The small stream, which is now reduced to a mere rill by the prolonged droughts, forces its way between walls of rock, upheaved in huge blocks like regular mason-work. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy About the year 1774 this wild forester was found cultivating a small spot of ground near a little crystal rill that flowed from a deep gorge in the hill. The Forest King Wild Hunter of the Adaca "The only trouble," she added simply, "is that in Friendship I don't know of a soul rill sick, nor a soul what you might call poor." Friendship Village It has innumerable streams, varying from tiny rills to large rivers. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 The balmy air is soft and still, And clear and bright are lake and rill. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse The petty rills of sensibility flow into the full expanse of irritability, and there lose themselves. Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. I will entice this crystal rill to trace Love's silver name upon the meadow's face. Endymion A Poetic Romance We want to give something, and we want it should be rill new and spicey, but of course it has to be pretty quiet, owing to the Cause—the Dead, so. Friendship Village Where are the shadows of the solemn hills, And the fresh music of the summer rills? Poems There many a lofty palace rose Like Vindhya or the Lord of Snows, And with sweet murmur sparkling rills Leapt lightly down the sheltering hills. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse I would I were back 'mid thy pigs and thy rills! The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life And as I sat, over the light blue hills There came a noise of revellers: the rills Into the wide stream came of purple hue– 'Twas Bacchus and his crew! Endymion A Poetic Romance An' yet I've known weeks at a time when they wasn't a soul rill flat down sick in Friendship. Friendship Village For two whole days it seemed a change To wander through the meadows still, The cool dark oaken grove to range, To listen to the rippling rill. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse Through rocks and boughs a brawling rill Leapt from the bosom of the hill, Like a proud beauty when she flies From her love's arms with angry eyes. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse We rode the tawny Texan hills, A bearded cattle man and I; Below us laughed the blossomed rills, Above the dappled clouds blew by. The Book of Humorous Verse The rill, Thou haply mayst delight in, will I fill With fairy fishes from the mountain tarn, And thou shall feed them from the squirrel's barn. Endymion A Poetic Romance You know my father before me was rill musical. Friendship Village Farther Tattiana's walks extend— 'Tis now the hillock now the rill Their natural attractions lend To stay the maid against her will. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse So, resting on that lovely hill, Near the fair lily-covered rill, The happy prince forgot, Surrounded by the birds and deer, The woe, the longing, and the fear That gloom the exile's lot. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Simple and familiar incidents, thus accidentally associated with the history of grand discoveries, are the channels through which the accumulating waters at length descend, rather than the rills which feed the swelling of their floods. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852 You would not surely condemn the waters of a mighty river while you were one of a company engaged in filling the springs and rills that unite to form it. The Young Man's Guide Written invites, she rags out in her rill best dress, for parties. Friendship Village Let us proceed unto a rill, Which in a hilly neighbourhood Seeks, winding amid meadows still, The river through the linden wood. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse The mountain seems with bright cascade And sweet rill bursting from the shade, Like some majestic elephant o'er Whose burning head the torrents pour. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse A little rill, an offspring of the Black Torrent, tumbled down the side of the mountain behind the church, and ran frolicking irreverently through the old graveyard. Cruel As The Grave Would you dry up the river of discord, you must first exhaust the fountains and rills which form it. The Young Man's Guide Three hundred an' 'leven days a year to use for themselves, an' Sundays an' Christmas an' Thanksgivin' to give away looks to me a rill fair division. Friendship Village |
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