rocklet

I skirted the surface, dodging between pillars of sulpherous spume, hurtling between the rocklet baby moons the ashen orb carried as it crawled around Endor.

Darth Vader's Day Off 2005

I skirted the surface, dodging between pillars of sulpherous spume, hurtling between the rocklet baby moons the ashen orb carried as it crawled around Endor.

Archive 2005-05-15 2005

Certain it is they are rocked on the deep from their birth, "cradled" in the sea, sleeping on their backs in the water, clasping the young in their arms like a human being, tossing up seaweed in play by the hour like mischievous monkeys, or crawling out on some safe, sea-girt rocklet, where they shake the water from their fur and make their toilet, stretching and arranging and rearranging hair like a cat.

Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward 1903

The dog had descended to the waters to quench his thirst, but still stood knee-deep in the shallow stream, and appeared lost in philosophical contemplation of a swarm of minnows, which his immersion had disturbed, but which now made itself again visible on the farther side of the glassy brook, undulating round and round a tiny rocklet which interrupted the glide of the waves, and caused them to break into a low melodious murmur.

What Will He Do with It? — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

The dog had descended to the waters to quench his thirst, but still stood knee-deep in the shallow stream, and appeared lost in philosophical contemplation of a swarm of minnows, which his immersion had disturbed, but which now made itself again visible on the farther side of the glassy brook, undulating round and round a tiny rocklet which interrupted the glide of the waves, and caused them to break into a low melodious murmur.

What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

The rocklet carried a simulated payload into orbit and will later be used for further cluttering up space with spy satellites or intergalactic Ebay transactions, we presume.

The Inquirer 2008

All is in the contrast of the mighty but conquered Douvres and the comparatively insignificant rocklet -- there are hundreds like it on every granite coast -- where Death the Consoler sets on Gilliatt's head the only crown possible for his impossible feat, and where the dislike of the ignorant peasantry, the brute resistance of machinery and material, the violence of the storm, the devilish ambush of the _pieuvre_, and all other evils are terminated and evaded and sanctified by the embrace and the euthanasia of the sea.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889