1 But the sounds of the rivulet, feeble and murmuring as they were, relieved the guides at once from no trifling embarrassment, and toward it they immediately held their way.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 14 2 He often stopped to examine the trees; nor did he cross a rivulet without attentively considering the quantity, the velocity, and the color of its waters.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 21 3 There was a long rivulet in the strand and, as he waded slowly up its course, he wondered at the endless drift of seaweed.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 4 The water of the rivulet was dark with endless drift and mirrored the high-drifting clouds.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 5 We passed over five or six rivers, many degrees broader and deeper than the Nile or the Ganges: and there was hardly a rivulet so small as the Thames at London-bridge.
6 Around the exterior wall was a deep moat, supplied with water from a neighbouring rivulet.
7 At the end of five hundred paces, more or less, they came to a rivulet, which they forded.
8 The tears coursed down her cheeks--not freely, however, for when they came into contact with her heavily beaded eyelashes they assumed an inky color, and pursued the rest of their way in slow black rivulets.
9 It was gray and dusty, and sweat had streaked long rivulets across his cheeks.
10 They drew back; they embraced; they shed rivulets of tears.