Vocabulary Word
Word: rivulet
Definition: small stream; CF. rill < rivulet < river
Definition: small stream; CF. rill < rivulet < river
Sentences Containing 'rivulet'
These just-hatched molluscs, though aquatic in their nature, survived on the duck's feet, in damp air, from twelve to twenty hours; and in this length of time a duck or heron might fly at least six or seven hundred miles, and if blown across the sea to an oceanic island, or to any other distant point, would be sure to alight on a pool or rivulet.
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.
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