rivulet

• “A thin rivulet of blood trickled from a gash in her lip.”

  The Wall « A Fly in Amber

• “Untitled Beads" is a close-up of water droplets on a reflective surface, perhaps a car window; reflected in the mirror surface of a rivulet is the light from a streetlight or a passing car.”

  The Washington Post: Painter Seth Adelsberger shakes things up in Civilian Art show

• “The rivulet was a sidewalk that nature made, not that I would've ever known it if I hadn't been led there and experienced it myself -- if I hadn't seen others using it for what likely might be a daily trek.”

  Beth Arnold: Need a Dose of Nature? An Exotic Spa? Try Wildfitness in Kenya

• “The timber on the plains and hills was chiefly those species of eucalyptus called apple tree, box, and gum trees; and on the banks of the rivulet were a few large casuarina.”

  Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales

• “-- I went out for plants, and descended to the Paeen rivulet, which is of small size: followed up its course some way, and then returned over a low hill to Khosha's.”

  Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

• “We then proceeded skirting the hill, and descended subsequently to the _O_. rivulet, which is of no size.”

  Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

• “From this spring, the water escapes in a tiny stream, called a rivulet or creek, and flows along until it enters a river.”

  New National Fourth Reader

• “The cloisters, 270 feet in length, and divided by 19 pillars and 20 arches, extend across the rivulet, which is arched over to support them; and near to the south end is a large circular stone basin.”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828

• “For this purpose, let us suppose a nation of Indians on the banks of some river or rivulet, which is always the case, as all {98} men whatever have at all times occasion for water.”

  History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing

• “It is a slender affluent of the Cconi, to be called a rivulet in any country but South America, but here named a river with the same proud effrontery which designates as a _city_ any collection of”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873

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