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Example sentences for "rill"

Lexicographically close words:
rikisha; rikkeni; riksha; rile; riled; rilled; rillet; rills; rim; rima
  1. A canoe-length from where we floated, a clear rill stole noiselessly from above, mingling its sweet waters with the sea; on the roof of our cavern fruits flourished, and we were wholly satisfied.

  2. So I walked slowly and without hesitation or impatience until I turned and met him coming out of his cage, crossing the rill by his log and holding out his hand to me in welcome.

  3. Whose voice was the voice of a rill in the moon, Of the rill's most gentle song; But oh, how chang'd!

  4. He said to himself, "She is not pretty," and yet found pleasure in watching her red lips drop figures and financial terms as musically as a little rill murmurs over a mossy rock.

  5. Seek not to muddy and poison this clear little rill that is watering a bit of God's world.

  6. It was the best dining-place on the whole road, for the trout in the neighboring rill were famous, and so was the mutton which came from Hazeldean Park.

  7. Behind, from a belt of lilacs and evergreens, you caught a peep of the parsonage-house, backed by woodlands, and a little noisy rill running in front.

  8. In whatever form it issues from the ground, a tiny rill carries away its overflow, and this sooner or later joins the brook.

  9. See where this tiny rill has run down that steep clay bank until its current was checked at the foot.

  10. A delta built by a tiny rill flowing from a steep clay bank.

  11. A rill of water from the high rocks was a protection against what they had to fear most of all, thirst, and the three human beings in turn drank freely from it, letting the animals follow.

  12. The rill murmured a little in its stony bed, and, far overhead, he heard the wind sighing among the trees on the mountain.

  13. Then with it you can dig a nice little rill for the water to flow in clean and fresh.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. The hoary rime of dewy night, And suns that glow with tempered light Lend fresh cool flavours to the rill That sparkles from the topmost hill.

  18. See with delighted eye the rill Leap sparkling from her parent hill, And hear the woods that round thee lie Reëcho to the peacock’s cry.

  19. Thus Ráma showed his love the rill Whose waters ran beneath the hill, Then resting on his mountain seat Refreshed her with the choicest meat.

  20. He woke to hear the music made By thunders of the white cascade, While every laughing rill that sprang From crag to crag its carol sang.

  21. As the great deep receives each rill And river rushing from the hill, He bore that flood of darts, and broke With well-aimed shaft each murderous stroke.

  22. Here will I bathe: the rill has not, To lave the limbs, a fairer spot.

  23. 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.

  24. 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.

  25. He learned at last that every rill Loses its freshness, when absorbed By the great stream that turns the mill.

  26. Following down a little valley and its tiny rill of water, an immense gulf unexpectedly opens through the trees which border the pathway, at the depth of perhaps 1500 feet.

  27. We found one creek, at the head of which there was a trickling rill (the first we had seen) of brackish water.

  28. At the distance of a few hundred yards, where the water of a little rill had been dammed up into a pool, there was a large and substantial water-mill.

  29. We set out early in the morning, and by midday reached the ravine of Paypote, where there is a tiny rill of water, with a little vegetation, and even a few algarroba trees, a kind of mimosa.

  30. Until we reached the valley of St. Martin, the country presented its usual dull brown appearance; but here, a very small rill of water produces a most refreshing margin of luxuriant vegetation.

  31. It is a land of freshets, and the most innocent little rill can rise to a roaring torrent in no time.

  32. Captain Graffenreid lay alongside the dead man, from beneath whose breast flowed a little rill of blood.

  33. By a violent but vain effort to withdraw the blade the wound was enlarged; a rill of blood escaped, running sinuously down into the deranged clothing.

  34. We have seen the Seven Springs rill in its infancy and the Thames in its boyhood and lusty youth; here, however, it enters upon its early manhood.

  35. A tiny rill of water flows gently underneath.

  36. That unseen rill causes these fair blossoms to spring forth.

  37. Both were carried back to the Rill on hurdles, and the doctor was sent for.

  38. Under these circumstances, she sat down to reflect on what she ought to do: whether to remain herself in the house, or whether to go back to the Rill and report to her father and sister.

  39. It drove her nearly wild with fear, and she set off for the Rill in a gig, her father driving it: as already spoken of.

  40. The doctor in attendance at the Rill had said Mrs. Caromel might go home if she had any urgent reason for wishing it--and here she was.

  41. By this time, the little rill has filled its reservoir again; and, as I quaff it, I thank God morn heartily than for a civic banquet, that he gives me the healthful appetite to make a feast of bread and water.

  42. A rill of water trickles down the cliff and fills a little cistern near the base.

  43. Opposite to this seat the ground rises again in an easy concave to a kind of dripping fountain, where a small rill trickles down a rude niche of rock work through fern, liverwort, and aquatic weeds.

  44. And continents of sand, will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at his feet?


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