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Example sentences for "rivulet"

Lexicographically close words:
rivets; rivetted; rivetting; rivieres; riving; rivulets; riyal; riyals; rize; rizo
  1. A rivulet flows into the sea not far from where we landed; the water is sweet, and of that clear brown color so common in Ireland.

  2. We moved forward, almost perishing for want of moisture for our parched mouths and throats, and gasping lungs; and in vain we endeavoured to console ourselves by the hope of finding some brook or rivulet to relieve our anguish.

  3. Flow, softly flow, by lawn and lea, A rivulet then a river: No where by thee my steps shall be, For ever and for ever.

  4. She saw her brother Peterkin Roll something large and round, Which he beside the rivulet In playing there had found; He came to ask what he had found, That was so large, and smooth, and round.

  5. Walk by the side of this rivulet until you come to its source; there you will see a girl, as bright as the sun, with long hair streaming down her shoulders.

  6. He went immediately into the forest, and when he had discovered the rivulet he walked by the side of it, on and on, until he reached its source.

  7. The Seine is a muddy rivulet in comparison with the Thames; the West End of London surpasses the finest parts of the French capital; and on some one's observing that there was a very thick fog out of doors: "Pish!

  8. I would lie by the side of some rivulet for hours, and form garlands of the flowers on its banks, and muse on ideal beauties, and sigh from the crowd of undefined emotions that swelled my bosom.

  9. The bed of this rivulet presents accumulations of boulders of large size, arranged so as to form two terraces, the upper of which is considerably above the highest level either of the rivulet, or of Bear Lake River.

  10. A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.

  11. See from the weedy earth a rivulet break.

  12. By fountain or by shady rivulet He sought them.

  13. The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow.

  14. I think the idea a good one," I cried in reply, "and with this rivulet as a companion, there is no further reason why we should not succeed in our marvelous project.

  15. I begin to fear that the rivulet we adopted for a guide has led us wrong.

  16. They landed close to where a broad rivulet at that season (but a torrent in the winter) poured its stream into the bay.

  17. The process of washing the sand of the rivulet was hard and very tedious; for the gold was found in minute scales, like mica.

  18. Again, a grand mass of gneiss and granite, eleven hundred feet high, would present itself, feathered with beautiful evergreens, with every runnel and rivulet in its clefts fringed with graceful wild date trees.

  19. The banks of the rivulet were covered with large groves of fine mango trees.

  20. It was a tongue or triangle of land, formed by the junction of a rivulet with the St. Lawrence, and known afterwards as Point Callière.

  21. The rivulet was bordered by a meadow, and beyond rose the forest with its vanguard of scattered trees.

  22. A spout of fresh water burst from an occasional crevice, and pattering down upon broad green leaves, ran along as a rivulet at the bottom.

  23. A little further, and the bed of the rivulet ended in the same fashion.

  24. It was like an internal surgical operation, for his tongue protruded as he wrote, marking his progress by a series of serpentine writhings that suggested inward pain.

  25. For here trickled the thin flow of that rocky rivulet which was the other entrance and exit penetrating that immense horror of marsh and bog and depthless sink-hole known as Drowned Valley.

  26. Smith's course would now cut this unmarked trail, trodden, only by game that left no sign in the shallow mountain rivulet which was the path.

  27. The stony bottom of the rivulet was his only aid.

  28. She wrote: "If you agree you shall pay what you owe to Jose Quintana in this manner: you shall place a stick at the edge of the Star Pond where the Star rivulet flows out.

  29. Lima might be made one of the cleanest cities in the world; for through all the main arteries runs a narrow rivulet diverted from the Rimac.

  30. It was a very pretty spot, shrubby and treesy, with a noisy rivulet washing the door-steps of an old ruined chapel.

  31. A trickling rivulet in front filled a scooped-out bowl in the rocks, some yards in diameter, and then flowed over a little natural channel, worn at the side, like the gutter to a fountain.

  32. Tepeaca was two miles from the shore of the lake, and the rivulet upon which it was situated was shallow.

  33. Meanwhile, the bed of the rivulet became deeper and wider at the same time.

  34. This first mile cleared, they saw a large hole, opened through the underwood, which ended obliquely at the rivulet and followed its bank.

  35. For two miles Dick Sand thus followed the course of the rivulet which must end in a more important river.

  36. The rivulet he had followed had just been emptied into the Coanza.

  37. But the rivulet flowed not far, before a few blades of grass appeared on its banks, and then, here and there, a stunted bush.

  38. The tree under which I seemed to have lain all night was one of the advanced guard of a dense forest, towards which the rivulet ran.

  39. Aber, as perhaps the reader already knows, is a disemboguement, and wherever a place commences with Aber there to a certainty does a river flow into the sea, or a brook or rivulet into a river.

  40. Seeing a bridge which crossed the rivulet at a slight distance from the road, a little beyond the village, I turned aside to look at it.

  41. A rivulet descending from some crags to the east crosses the road, which leads through the place, and tumbling down the valley, joins the Ystwyth at the bottom.

  42. After a little time we saw a rivulet running from the west.

  43. A brook or rivulet runs through it, which comes down the glen from the celebrated cataract, which is about four miles distant to the west.

  44. John pours prodigally, till the wine is trickling down the wall, and making a little rivulet in the street.

  45. It runs into the rivulet De Larvot, by the "Pré de l'Etang.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rivulet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.