On our left was the gorge, down which tumbled the runnel of water which I have before mentioned.
I thrust my head into a pool until the water ran into my ears, and then sat with my bare feet upon the cool stones where the runnel lapped them, and read "Richard Feverel.
When Andrew crossed to the bullock-house, water was dripping from the barn, by noon bush and boulder were beginning to show on the hill, at nightfall runnel and stream were chattering along their courses.
The plover remained, the snipe foraged along a runnel fed by a warm spring, but the heath was rendered uninhabitable for the hare by the piercing wind, against which the withered grasses of the mound afforded no protection.
The other spirits have told us that the veracity of this spirit is not to be depended upon; and so, whenever it is possible, poor Mary Runnel is thrust forward to bear the odium of every mistake or falsehood.
And in silence they retraced the bush path and entered the little gate, then through the orange garden over the runnel of water where they had stood that night when accidentally watched by Ethel.
They were now skirting the stream, which here flowed past the dam, communicating with it by a runnel cut with spades.
A small runnel of water coursed along at their feet, shining and glowing in the moonlight, and she was standing on the single plank that spanned it.
A torrent winding between grave cliffs, covered with a scanty growth of parched herbage; no runnel diffusing life, and by our side the precious water collected in a cistern with a floor of cement.
We crossed the last runnel on the southern edge of the plantation and entered the silent waste.
Soon as was Sir Siegfried of the mortal wound aware, LXIX Up he from the runnel started as he were wood.
XC Of that same little runnel where Siegfried murder'd fell, The true and rightful story you now shall hear me tell.
LIV Then spake the Chief of Trony, "Ye noble knights and bold, I know just to our wishes a runnel clear and cold Close by, so be not angry, but thither let us go.
By a similar artifice the engineer would change his meagre little runnel into an inexhaustible fountain.
The great difficulty was how to supply this enormous consumption with so slender a runnel of water as the one at their disposal.
The runnel at the tent-door had barely a voice of its own.
Into this was poured lime from the other panniers, and then a man carrying a pail brought water from a wayside runnel and poured it on the lime.
When, toward the end of the meal Siegfried is tormented with thirst, Hagen tells him of a cool runnel near by under a linden, and proposes that he and Gunther and Siegfried shall try a race to this brook.
Soon as was Sir Siegfried of the mortal wound aware, Up he from the runnel started, as he were wood Out from betwixt his shoulders his own hugh boar-spear stood.
Peebles had disappeared; Dake lay in his rags on the ground; Runnel rocked slowly, like a pendulum, in his ceaseless pain.
There was a little runnel going softly down beside me, falling from the upper rock by the means of moss and grass, as if it feared to make a noise, and had a mother sleeping.
Wherever a brook or runnel crosses or skirts a farm, the question--"Can the water here running uselessly by be retained, and in due season equably diffused over some portion of this land?
Faster and yet faster it flowed, falling, with the sound as of many showers, into the runnel below, which rushed splashing and gurgling away from the foot of the vanishing wall.
The gray walls yet rose about me, and ever the film of dissolution flowed along their glassy faces to the runnel below; still before me opened the depth of blue atmosphere, deepening as I went.
After lapping some water below a cascade hung with icicles, I left the soft margin of the rapidrunnel which had been riddled by the bills of the woodcock and, emerging from the furze, stole down to the thicket of blackthorns.
But mousing was apparently not the chief business of the night, for, without dwelling, she stepped across the dried-up runnel which the rushes fringed, and headed for the craggy ridge above.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "runnel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
