streamlet
IPA: strˈimɫʌt
noun
- A small stream.
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Examples of "streamlet" in Sentences
- The streamlet is a favourite haunt of the hippopotamus; a small one dived when it sighted us, and did not reappear.
- But we know of none that is so called at the present time; and can only conjecture that the streamlet which is now called Haemon, and runs by the
- We eventually arrived at Pimental, a fiendishly hot, steamy, unhealthy place, where across a streamlet was a station for the transhipment of rubber.
- It is enriched with groups of trees and picturesque cottages, and possesses a luxuriant growth of shrubs and underwood, that almost conceals from view the streamlet, which is the chief cause of its fertility.
- Here stand, like sentinels at the end of all things living, the three or four last, lonely palms -- they and their fellows lower down are fed by a silvery streamlet which is forced upwards, I suppose, by contact with
- But when Othman arose to power he diverted a streamlet from the stream, and Mu’awiyah in his turn diverted from it several streamlets; and without ceasing in like manner, Yezid and the Banu Marwán such as Abd al-Malik and
- As they advanced, their ears caught the gentle sound of a tiny streamlet, which issued from the rock, while the ground beneath their feet was perfectly dry, consisting in some places of hard rock, in others of soft, warm sand.
- But we know of none that is so called at the present time; and can only conjecture that the streamlet which is now called Haemon, and runs by the Temple of Hercules, where the Greeks were encamped, might perhaps in those days be called
- But we know of none that is so called at the present time; and can only conjecture that the streamlet which is now called Hæmon, and runs by the Temple of Hercules, where the Grecians were encamped, might perhaps in those days be called Thermodon, and after the fight, being filled with blood and dead bodies, upon this occasion, as we guess, might change its old name for that which it now bears.
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