"Runlet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his stroke, And manly were the words he spoke, Until the smiling babe awoke And prayed to him for milk and food. Then to a runlet forth he went, And brought a wallet from the bent, And bade me to the meal, intent I ...
— Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Jean Ingelow
... jokes and converse, the light-hearted backwoodsmen threw off their crocky frocks, and, after washing up at a runlet at hand, marched off in chatty groups to the house, where they found awaiting their arrival the well-spread board of their appreciating hostess, this time made more tempting to their vigorous and healthy appetites by the addition, to the fine trout of the morning, ...
— Gaut Gurley • D. P. Thompson
... never known to sing except at her sewing and alone, as the way of women often is. During a walk across the summer fields my foot has sometimes paused at the brink of a silvery runlet, and I have followed it backward in search of the spring. It may lead to the edge of a dark wood; thence inward deeper and deeper; disappearing at last in a nook of coolness and shadow, green leaves and mystery. The overheard rill of Georgiana's voice issues from inner depths of being ...
— Aftermath • James Lane Allen
... ate a bit of pie that hung on his fork. Then he drank from his cider runlet. "What a ...
— The Torch and Other Tales • Eden Phillpotts |
