Simon felt rivulets running down his own back, under his padded cotton undershirt, mail hauberk, and surcoat.
He walked close to the houses on his right, keeping away from the ruts and the rivulets of sewage in the center of the street.
But to his surprise he saw rivulets of tears on her round cheeks.
Not infrequently gardens were planted before them, while rivulets of “living water” flowed through the streets and were at times conducted into the tomb.
The beautiful green valley, threaded by Bright rivulets that sought the quiet lake, Dear haunts sought daily by her maiden feet.
The rush of snow rivulets and the cry of birds then certainly cause an interruption in the desolation and silence which were now spread over the clay beds of the plains, nearly bare of all vegetation.
To pour out this in undulating rivulets of rhapsody is apparently the only motive of its ascension.
Before these fields were shorn and tilled, Full to the brim our rivers flowed; The melody of waters filled The fresh and boundless wood; And torrents dashed and rivulets played, And fountains spouted in the shade.
Where Isar's clay-white rivulets run Through the dark wood's, like frighted deer.
Thou fill'st with joy this little one, That leaps and shouts beside me here, Where Isar's clay-white rivulets run Through the dark woods like frighted deer.
The rivulets were swollen with the heavy rains, and great care was necessary to attain their object in safety.
The rain having swollen the waters, they were often forced to wade up to the knees through the little creeks and rivulets that intersected their path.
We splashed across several rivulets and skirted a number of ponds.
The species abounds in the rivulets at the foot of the hills of Penang.
We passed several rivulets where small parties may obtain grazing for their stock.
It is granted me to sing the wanton Bacchanalian priestess, and the fountain of wine, and rivulets flowing with milk, and to tell again of the honeys distilling from the hollow trunks.
Long lines of Lombardy poplars mark the boundaries of many farms and willows show where the big irrigating ditches pass or rivulets trickle.
From its western slopes flow the rivulets that unite to make the Gunnison and Grand,--one of the forks of the Rio Colorado.
In the valleys themselves the mountain rivulets were collected into a strong current, which rattled along amid masses of huge rock, and swept in broad flakes of foam sometimes across the narrow road beside it.
The stars of midnight shall be dear 25 To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound [A] Shall pass into her face.
Into these rivulets and streams the soldiers plunged, one in front, feeling the depth of the water with a sounding rod, and as he led we followed.
The island was perfectly flat and bare, and the river had eaten into it and overflowed it with tiny rivulets and deep, swift-running streams.
And they had scarce hooked the ship's side when I sprang up the sea-ladder, to the great gaping of the boat's crew, and stood with the water running off me inrivulets before the captain himself.
Now the river flows more slowly and drops a part of the sand and mud which we rivulets brought to it.
Along the roadside, where they have united, the rivulets form a torrent which is making a deep ditch that threatens to render the road impassable.
Would you like to know how we rivulets get rid of the load we carry from the mountain slopes?
They gather in rivulets just as they do on the once grassy hillside; but because there are so many roots still remaining in the ground they have not done much work.
How quickly the rivulets have taken advantage of the unprotected slopes!
Now I have told you what Nature has appointed the muddy rivulets to do.
Fairbanks What the rivulets did to the hillside pastures where the grass was destroyed.
Now you who think we muddy rivulets do only harm see what we have accomplished.
If it rains a very long time and the sponge becomes saturated, the drops that creep away and finally unite in rivulets in the hollows do no harm to the soil, for they cannot get at it.
These slopes were once covered with grass and the rivulets ran down them without doing any harm.
But wherever the slopes are steep werivulets have our way.
In those happy lands where people understand Nature we rivulets have a different kind of work to do.
How much do you suppose all the rivulets which make up the rivers of your state washed from all the gardens and fields during the same storm?
Upon all the slopes which drain toward the river we rivulets are at work.
Upon the slopes about the valleys we rivulets did not leave so much soil.
The rain is steadily pouring down and rivulets loaded with mud are eating little gullies all over the slopes.
Goodly rivers such as the Severn and the Teme, besides brooks, rivulets and trout-streams, enrich the meadows in the sunny vales, or wake the silence of the lonely hills where the curlew and the lapwing make their homes.
She could hear, too, the loud, angry murmur of the trout brook and the splashing of hundreds of rivulets that dashed down the slope and over the gorge into it.
And just as she had lain down again there came a great gust of rain, and one of the rivulets that were sweeping down the mountain splashed in under the canvas, and ran right through the middle of the tent like a brook.
His face was grimed a dingy black through which rivulets of sweat had made streaks.
Rivulets of seepage and surface water trickled in the most unexpected places as though from snow recently melted.
Here centre some of the richest rivulets of Scotch history, ecclesiastical and military, of church and state, cowl and crown.
Many small rivulets flow from the rising grounds into the sea, through wide gravelly beds, indicating that at times they swell into large torrents.
The beach and the beds of the rivulets that flow through the ravines, consist of coarse gravel.
The collected rivuletsfrom these springs form a stream which is, at its junction with the Slave River, sixty yards wide and eight or ten feet deep.
It rained the next morning with a musical patter on everything, and little rivulets ran down the steps.
Rivulets were running down the slopes and the wind was appalling.
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