How To Use Rivulet In A Sentence
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The paint was still dribbling slowly in rivulets down the wood.
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He arrived at length in a narrow and secluded cleuch, or deep ravine, which ran down into the valley, and contributed a scanty rivulet to the supply of the brook with which Glendearg is watered.
The Monastery
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A thin rivulet of blood trickled from a gash in her lip.
The Wall « A Fly in Amber
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The sweat cut little rivulets into her face
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Unable to even screech before the veil of death fell upon her, Solokar perished instantly, rivulets of green ichor spraying from her wounds.
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It is possible to swallow, but expect the odd rivulet of saliva to escape down your chin.
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And though the chorus failed altogether to dull the splashing of the rivulet and the babbling of the by-cut over a bed of stones, it seemed out of place in this particular spot; it aroused resentment against men who could not think of a lay more atune with the particular living, breathing objects around us.
Through Russia
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A small rivulet of blood trailed down the screen.
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Latrines and showers are damaged, fecal matter is running in rivulets through the camps, and in the worst possible scenario, chorine levels in water distribution systems are running low or are non-existent.
Georgianne Nienaber: Flooding Scours the Whitewash From Haiti Aid Efforts
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A robin red-breast dropt from the frosty branches of the trees, upon the congealed rivulet; its panting breast and half-closed eyes shewed that it was dying: a hawk appeared in the air; sudden fear seized the little creature; it exerted its last strength, throwing itself on its back, raising its talons in impotent defence against its powerful enemy.
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Between these, a narrow, winding rivulet-track of rugs leads up to the armchair of the happy bibliophile, who is to be seen dimly manifest amid clouds of tobacco smoke by the fireside.
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It pooled in his throat and in rivulets across his flat stomach, trickling into the wound with the raw sting of salt.
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Once when he came down the stairs, and in stepping over Mitchell's body, set his bare foot in a rivulet of blood.
GALILEE
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Only a few rivulets of water were streaming down its sides.
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Stubbornly, he rolled over and refused to wake, a thin rivulet of droll dripping from his chin.
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The titanium container smashed into the ground, and a small rivulet of fuchsia trickled out.
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Rain ran in tiny rivulets down the window.
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A permanent coating of titanium oxide causes rainwater to slide in cleansing sheets rather than in dirt-streaked rivulets.
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It was gray and dusty, and sweat had streaked long rivulets across his cheeks.
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The entire route is marked with bubbling rivulets and gushing waterfalls.
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Her stockings are ruined and a rivulet of blood trickles from one of her knees.
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Water coursed from his hair, to his neck, and to his toes in tiny rivulets.
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Farther off, just below where the fountain slipped away from its marble hall and guardian gods, arose, from their beds of moss and drosera and darkest grass, the sisterhood of oleanders, fond of tantalizing with their bosomed flowers and their moist and pouting blossoms the little shy rivulet, and of covering its face with all the colours of the dawn.
Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
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He arrived at length in a narrow and secluded _cleuch_, or deep ravine, which ran down into the valley, and contributed a scanty rivulet to the supply of the brook with which Glendearg is watered.
The Monastery
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The flow of that water - in brooks, streams, rivulets, rivers, and lakes - frames much of what makes Kentucky so lush and alluring.
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(through whose tortured glottis the word nymphet has decisively been lifted into the linguistic mainstream from the minor Jacobean rivulets of Drayton and Drummond), whose speech is effectively spoonerized by the "tender, mysterious, impure, indifferent twilight eyes" of "Haze, Dolores" (to firmly place the child where she belongs -- in a school attendance list):
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3
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The retaining wall of the rivulet feeding the Gaj Power Project was also breached.
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The liquid coursed down the fabric in rivulets and emptied into a semicircular metal basin below, producing the murmurous sound of a steady downpour.
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The rivulet was a sidewalk that nature made, not that I would've ever known it if I hadn't been led there and experienced it myself -- if I hadn't seen others using it for what likely might be a daily trek.
Beth Arnold: Need a Dose of Nature? An Exotic Spa? Try Wildfitness in Kenya
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It took her to a small rivulet that branched off from the main rush of the creek.
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Beads of perspiration rolled merrily along my hairline and flowed down the shallow rivulet between eye and nose.
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In one he mixed oil-and water-based paint to create tiny rivulets where the two come into contact.
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With some of the trees drooping over the stone embanked, tiny rivulet - they cast kaleidoscopic reflections in its waters.
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Tilting his canvases at steep angles, Ross drips thin pigmented rivulets from top to bottom.
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His normally nimble mind hums to a halt, his jaw goes slack and twin rivulets of spittle suavely course down each corner of his mouth.
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On the earth, saturated with rivulets and little lakes of blood, gleamed the lead shrapnel bullets and the brighter, nickelled rifle-bullets and the barrels of rifles dropped from the hands of the fallen.
The Last Shot
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She collected water in a red plastic cup, then tilted the cup over her belly, letting the thin stream plash onto her skin where it split apart into rivulets that ran down the sides of her pregnant dome.
ALONE With You
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The sky from the earth to the zenith was a vast expanse of illuminated smoke, and the black landscape round about was cut by rivulets of molten lava rolling on and on like restless streams of quicksilver.
The Changing Sun
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She stood for a while on the bank of a chuckling rivulet and thought she sensed it laughing at her.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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Fitzsimmons moved his light around and saw that the blood was splattered over one of the shelves and ran in rivulets down spines of the books.
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The ceiling fans are on, the droplets of condensation are running in rivulets down our lime sodas, the table is laid.
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She felt the point pierce the skin and as the skin gave way a rivulet of fresh blood crawled its way down over her lip.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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Note the "ropy" character of the half-frozen rock on the sides of the nearest rivulet of the lava.
Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography
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To get to their house you pass somnolent cows, grazing sleepily amidst green fields, little rivulets, coconut groves and brightly painted houses.
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Remember the driveway, with the rivulets redesigning it each time it rained?
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We then proceeded skirting the hill, and descended subsequently to the _O_. rivulet, which is of no size.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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Rivulets of sweat poured down our backs and James called out to us to walk like models sashaying down a ramp.
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Arthur was the first one to greet the rivulet; nearly falling off the ten-foot cliff edge that dangled it's face over the waters of the creek.
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There stood Mr. Pike, his sou'wester doffed, his oilskins streaming rivulets to the floor, while he, dividers and parallel rulers in hand, bent over the chart.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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-- I went out for plants, and descended to the Paeen rivulet, which is of small size: followed up its course some way, and then returned over a low hill to Khosha's.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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Not that there's much to see through the steaming sheet of water dancing around me, running in freezing rivulets down my back and filling up my shoes.
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This has the destabilising effect of re-enacting the movements of a huge rockface, when shattered stone is unlocked by thawing, rivulets of snow-melt, the collapse of seracs, or the downrush of avalanches.
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It was a tiny, lively rivulet that came out of the woods about half a mile away from the hotel, and ran down cater-cornered through a sloping meadow, crossing the road under a flat bridge of boards, just beyond the root-beer shop at the lower end of the village.
Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
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There are twin rivulets of sweat running from her temples to her jawline.
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The overall presentation of Hero is so tastefully restrained that a tiny rivulet of blood is all that ever flows after a fighter is mortally wounded.
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Rivulets 'neath the myrtle shade and Bán's fair branchery;
Arabian nights. English
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Things that Ramis thinks are funny - such as sweat pouring in rivulets off a basketball player's face - don't work, and the saccharine sweet ending strikes the wrong note.
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It reminds you of placid rivulet, meandering smoothly through green pastures and shaded by pleasant trees.
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Sweat ran in a single rivulet from the corner of the Garde's eye as if he was crying.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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The taste of the citizen and of the mere peasant are in all respects the same: the former gilds his balls, paints his stonework and statues white, plants his trees in lines or circles, cuts his yew-trees, four-square or conic, or gives them what he can of the resemblance of birds or bears or men; squirts up his rivulets in _jets d'eau_; in short, admires no part of nature but her ductility; exhibits everything that is glaring, that implies expense, or that effects a surprise because it is unnatural.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
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The course of the rivulet of wine, from which a Bacchante is scooping a jugful, is confused, perhaps through the deterioration of the paint or through inept restoration.
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The film documents how a movement for the stream's rejuvenation witnessed public participation before the 160-km rivulet was finally cleaned.
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I was... I was walking myself,' she mumbled, shaking a fresh concatenation of rivulets from her cheeks, her colour rising.
BEHINDLINGS
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The timber on the plains and hills was chiefly those species of eucalyptus called apple tree, box, and gum trees; and on the banks of the rivulet were a few large casuarina.
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
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After descending from Almora the road winds its way mostly along the valley and we had the constant companionship of lush green paddy fields, luxuriant vegetation all around and an occasional rivulet.
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On the top of a hill, about four miles from the Fort, I had a fine view of a beautiful valley, caused by a rivulet, being a branch of Knife River, the declivities of which abound in a new species of eleagnus, intermixed with a singular procumbent species of cedar (juniperus.)
Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811
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A small rivulet of water had come off from the main stream, and had formed a clear puddle about two feet across.
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As the snow began to melt and to run in rivulets, I held tighter to Charlie.
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In your dreaming state, you are quick about everything, just as the streams are so quick when in the mountains, the rivulets, the brooklets are so quick and so rapid, so gushing, and so playful.
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Tilting his canvases at steep angles, Ross drips thin pigmented rivulets from top to bottom.
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She felt frozen, rooted to her chair, beads of sweat forming and pouring in tiny rivulets down her back.
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The snow began to melt and run in small rivulets.
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From this spring, the water escapes in a tiny stream, called a rivulet or creek, and flows along until it enters a river.
New National Fourth Reader
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Rivulets of blood had snaked down his face, following natural lines to the right of the broad and protuberant nose.
THE SERPENT'S MARK
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Little rivulets of wetness ran down my flesh onto the dirty blanket dampening it.
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Temporary bunds on nullahs, rivulets or small rivers erected by using empty cement bags, popularly known as Vanarai Bunds, have proved most effective.
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It had rivulets of pattern and color emerging from a central nexus.
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We next crossed a wet savanna, which is the beginning of a region still lower than we had traversed; here we crossed a rapid rivulet of exceeding cool, pleasant water, where we halted to refresh ourselves.
Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
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At a sheepfold the track loses its companion walls and stone surface and diminishes to a narrow path with railway sleepers over the numerous spring fed rivulets.
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Slowly, she lathered her body with the softly scented soap, watching as the water washed it away in rivulets down her arms.
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Tracing the rivulet a hundred paces from the highway, she found the spring that fed it.
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The liquid coursed down the fabric in rivulets and emptied into a semicircular metal basin below, producing the murmurous sound of a steady downpour.
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Slowly, she lathered her body with the softly scented soap, watching as the water washed it away in rivulets down her arms.
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There were rustic bridges over rivulets, diminutive temples with classical pillars, a pagoda, a Roman bath-house.
DISPLACED PERSON
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I stood like that for a long time while water sluiced over me and formed rivulets around scar tissue, splashing and washing down the drain.
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Temporary bunds on nullahs, rivulets or small rivers erected by using empty cement bags, popularly known as Vanarai Bunds, have proved most effective.
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At one point, Parry struck himself in the face, and for the rest of the set he performed with a thin rivulet of blood running down his cheek.
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The streets were smeary with neon rivulets, and a steam-haze rose from hot pavement.
Archive 2010-04-01
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Some of the liquids spilled out onto the gallery floor in small puddles and rivulets.
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The walls were made thick, rough, and strong; the interstices were matted and daubed with clay from the bed of the rivulet; the thatch was a sedge obtained from the lake; and the floor of earth was strewed with the leaves of the sweet-smelling rhododendron.
The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains
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Fearon reappeared holding a towel, his black hair glistening wet and rivulets running down his swarthy skin.
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About a sazhen [Fathom] below the level of the barraque there coursed noisily over its bed of stones a rivulet white with foam.
Through Russia
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The draining, indeed, has made it more comfortable to walk about on, and some of the rougher grasses have gone from the furrows, diminishing at the same time the number of cardamine flowers; but of these there are hundreds by the side of every tiny rivulet of water, and the aquatic grasses flourish in every ditch.
The Life of the Fields
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He wiped upwards from where the rivulet of blood was running down his arm and up to the puncture.
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The postal pipe hugs the curb, rivulets of rain on it trembling every time a package flies along it.
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Her cheeks were flushed and tear streaks from her mascara lined them in black rivulets.
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We encamped under a banian tree; our surroundings were the now light-grey waters of the Tanganika, an amphitheatral range of hills, and the village of Niasanga, situated at the mouth of the rivulet Niasanga, with its grove of palms, thicket of plantains, and plots of grain and cassava fields.
How I Found Livingstone
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He felt that one would need a significant crack for a fast flow of water between the joints, unless the water accumulated over a broad horizontal area and then formed one rivulet.
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Not only has the course of these rivulets been changed by encroachers within the township, but also in peripheral areas falling in the neighbouring state of Punjab.
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Washing for gold supports the inhabitants of numerous hovels, scattered along the sides of each little rivulet; but, like all those whose gains are uncertain, they are unthrifty in their habits, and consequently poor.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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Beneath the umbrous trees a rivulet gently flowed.
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Eccliscraig, formerly a place of great strength, being erected on a perpendicular and peninsulated rock, sixty feet above the sea, at the mouth of a small rivulet.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827
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Rivulets of sweat ran down her back.
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The school is located near the rivulet.
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I was literally soaked to the skin and could feel rivulets chasing each other down my bosom.
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The blood of the sergeant crept close to his fingers before the earth drank down these scantling rivulets and that spring dried up once and forever.
Spirit Gate
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One main source of excitement for us was "cheeking" people in vans and carts upon the Goudhurst road; and getting myself into a monstrous white mess in the chalk pits beyond the village, and catching yellow jaundice as a sequel to bathing stark naked with three other Adamites, old Ewart leading that function, in the rivulet across Hickson's meadows, are among my memorabilia.
Tono Bungay
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For this purpose, let us suppose a nation of Indians on the banks of some river or rivulet, which is always the case, as all {98} men whatever have at all times occasion for water.
History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing
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The water pooled and spread across the gravel parking lot before running in wandering rivulets out into the field beyond, where bright butterflies swarmed and fluttered, dabbing at the mud I was making.
Fish Story
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It is a slender affluent of the Cconi, to be called a rivulet in any country but South America, but here named a river with the same proud effrontery which designates as a _city_ any collection of
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873
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A thin rivulet of blood trickled from a gash in her lip.
The Wall « A Fly in Amber
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Untitled Beads" is a close-up of water droplets on a reflective surface, perhaps a car window; reflected in the mirror surface of a rivulet is the light from a streetlight or a passing car.
Painter Seth Adelsberger shakes things up in Civilian Art show
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Crunching over the top of a ridge, we drop into a large bowl where rivulets of water gather to form a torrent that plunges into a crevasse.
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The cloisters, 270 feet in length, and divided by 19 pillars and 20 arches, extend across the rivulet, which is arched over to support them; and near to the south end is a large circular stone basin.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828
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The rivulet becomes a streamlet, and the desert silence is suddenly broken by the silver music of water.
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The end of the dreary garden edges off into a close-sheltered lane, wandering and winding, like a rivulet, in gentle 'sinuosities' (to use
Our Village
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He saw before him the rivulet which wanders through the burgh-muir of Middlemas, where he had so often set little mills for the amusement of Menie while she was a child.
The Surgeon's Daughter
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The flow of that water - in brooks, streams, rivulets, rivers, and lakes - frames much of what makes Kentucky so lush and alluring.
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On the beach are the watercourses of small rivulets that formed in the rain and are left behind like aerial views of the world's great river deltas.
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Found in the declivities of the mountains of South Carolina, in the dark, sphagnous swamps along rivulets.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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Several rivulets of the water spread toward the perimeter of the room.
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Some of the liquid evaporates with a soft hiss; the rest descends in sad rivulets.
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There was plenty of the "grama" grass growing along the banks of the rivulet, and that with the water was all they cared for to make them contented and happy.
The Boy Hunters
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Taraba is environed with palm-groves and gardens, watered by numerous rivulets; near it are some inconsiderable hills, at the foot of which the Arabs cultivate durra and barley: the inhabitants are of the Begoum tribe, and their Sheikh is Ibn Korshán.
Travels in Arabia
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The sources said following the breaches the water had started flowing into the Dhakansu nala and the Pachisdara forcing the district administration to strengthen both the rivulets at strategic points.
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The rivulets and runnels of Celtic Park are lined with the pictures, mementoes and iconography of former glory.
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The sun falling upon my back has turned the dampness beneath my hair to wet, a tiny rivulet of sweat trickling down my spine.
