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Example sentences for "runnels"

Lexicographically close words:
runlets; runn; runne; runned; runnel; runner; runners; runnes; runneth; runnin
  1. We pass through the thin plantation, sustained by runnels derived from Alagöz, and come to a halt before the doorway of a lofty mud wall with round towers at intervals.

  2. It is sustained by runnels which exhaust the waters of the Kasagh or Abaran Su, the stream which collects the scanty drainage of the volcano upon its eastern flank.

  3. She looked about her for an instant, and then, finding feasible standing-ground, went to one of the runnels dripping down the cliff and paused there, holding the lily stems in the cool laving of the fall.

  4. They were entering the shade of evergreens that bordered the ravine road, where there were striated cliffs, and little runnels came trickling down to join the stream below.

  5. It was a maze of shadowy ways edged by little runnels of water and bordered by roses and jasmine, with here and there a huge white draecena usurping the path.

  6. So they stood--she in the shadow at one end of the alley, he in the shadow at the other; between them the scented path bordered by the runnels of water slipping by to bring a deluge to some portion of that little world.

  7. We saw Mr. Wickes, Mr. Runnels and Mr. Brown, and had a long interview.

  8. Mr. Wickes, Mr. Runnels and Mr. Brown withdrew and prepared a statement giving the position of the company and declining the proposition.

  9. Then the jovial heir will fling To the four winds of heaven thy gathered hoard In flaunting joys and unrestricted glee, While costly dishes glitter on the board And the wine flows in ruddy runnels free.

  10. On all sides in the country you see acre after acre of bog, dripping with moisture and exuding black runnels whenever the spade of the peat-cutter begins to slice its fibrous bulk.

  11. He sank in his chair, while runnels of sweat coursed down his cheeks.

  12. Mud and filth cumber the door-steps, runnels of malodorous water ooze along the rows, ragged and ill-kempt bairns tumble about like little savages.

  13. The topmost mountain-snows are melting fast, See, how the swollen waters hurry down In perpendicular runnels from the crown Of every wreathéd hill.

  14. I made my way slowly up the long ascent from Muker, stumbling frequently on the loose stones and in the water-worn runnels that were scarcely visible in the dim twilight.

  15. Higher still climbs this venturesome road, until all around us is a vast tumble of gaunt brown fells, divided by ravines whose sides are scarred with runnels of water, which have exposed the rocks and left miniature screes down below.

  16. But unexpectedly Runnels summoned him to his office.

  17. Runnels shook his head doubtfully as if questioning the genuineness of this attitude.

  18. Runnels accepted Kirk's explanation, and so far exceeded his authority as to make no objection.

  19. Well, Runnels will be out of the way soon; Blakeley amounts to nothing.

  20. Runnels managed to see him once or twice, reporting that, so far as he could learn, Chiquita had disappeared.

  21. Together they hastened to the railroad building, Runnels telling all he knew of the tragedy as they went along.

  22. However, as it was, he went nearly mad with delight, and when Tuesday came round he performed his office-work so badly that Runnels took him to task.

  23. When they were under way, Runnels went on: "I'm supposed to show you this end of the work and tell you what it all means.

  24. She next held a long conversation with Colonel Jolson, to the end that on Friday morning Runnels heard a rumor that threw him into the greatest consternation.

  25. Don't let any one in except Mr. Runnels and the man he'll bring.

  26. Runnels dragged his companion out, trying to calm him as best he could.

  27. It was no later than the following day, however, that Runnels pointed out two young ladies who were driving past and informed him that they were the Misses Fermina.

  28. Mrs. Runnels admitted the fact cheerfully, and at the same time noted how her partner's muscles swelled and hardened as Miss Garavel glided past in the arms of Ramon Alfarez.

  29. Full in the runnels of snow water on gravelly, open spaces in the shadow of a drift, one looks to find buttercups, frozen knee-deep by night, and owning no desire but to ripen their fruit above the icy bath.

  30. Runnels of rain water from the glacier-slips swirl through the pine needles into rivulets; the streams froth and rise in their banks.

  31. At about the nine thousand foot level and in the summer there will be hosts of rosy-winged dodecatheon, called shooting-stars, outlining the crystal runnels in the sod.

  32. Come, and where these runnels fall, Listen to my madrigal!

  33. Her silver speech is like the singing flight Of runnels rippling o'er the jewelled sand; Her kiss a dream of delicate delight; For me her favor glorifies the land.

  34. While Tibetan elements have during the ages slowly welled over the high Himalayan brim and trickled down toward the Gangetic plain, Burma has been deluged by floods of Mongolians pouring down the runnels of the land.

  35. In them the whole range of historical movements meet few obstacles beyond the waters gathering in their runnels and the forests nourished in their rich soils.

  36. The water of the heavy rains soaks into the level forest lands: one never sees runnels leading it off, unless occasionally a footpath is turned to that use.

  37. We passed a fine flowing rivulet, called Levizé, going into the Lake, and many smaller runnels of delicious cold water.

  38. Clouds of an indigo darkness, of immense bulk, and motionless, reduced the sunset to mere runnels of opaline light about the bases of dark mountains inverted in the heavens.

  39. The white runnels of foam which laced the contours of the piled boulders gave the barrier the appearance of being miraculously uplifted, as though one saw thin daylight through its interstices.

  40. Runnels of rain water from the glacier slips swirl through the pine needles into rivulets; the streams froth and rise in their banks.

  41. It was all I could do to keep from throttling unsuspecting John Runnels as we tramped along side by side.

  42. If I could only persuade Jorkins to let me go to the bank on the drive to the station---- The town clock in the tower of the new city hall was striking eleven when good old John Runnels and the constable came for me.

  43. If anybody had asked me five minutes after Runnels went away why I had chosen Cyrus Whitredge to be my counsel I doubt if I could have offered any justifiable reason.

  44. Afterward, when we were in the street together, and Runnels was walking me around the square to the police station, the dead thing inside of me came alive.

  45. I remember that I went quite methodically about putting things away while Runnels waited, though every move was dumbly mechanical.

  46. In the morning it was old John Runnels himself who brought me my cell breakfast, and he did it to spare me the shame of being served by the police-station turnkey.

  47. I contrived to hold in while Runnels was hurrying me through the station office and past the sleepy sergeant at the desk.

  48. The conflagration leaped the narrow water-courses as it came to them like a steeplechaser and the numerous runnels offered no more check to it than if they had not been there.

  49. I mean that we shall not, as I began to fear, have to swim any creeks or wade runnels to gain it.

  50. For this purpose wooden runnels are placed beneath the rollers, through which the cloth passes in the scouring machine, so as to collect the suds after they have been spent.


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