runlets

But Purdy who, sick and tired of the discussion, had withdrawn to the window to watch the rain zig-zag in runlets down the dusty panes, and hiss and spatter on the sill;

Australia Felix 2003

Clouds overlaid the sky as with a shroud of mist, and everything looked sad, rainy, and threatening under a fine drizzle which was beating against the window-panes, and streaking their dull, dark surfaces with runlets of cold, dirty moisture.

Poor Folk 2003

These myriads of insects were so well suited to that monstrously lavish wild vegetation, these multitudes of birds and beasts which filled the forest, this dark foliage, this hot scented air, these runlets filled with turbid water which everywhere soaked through from the Terek and gurgled here and there under the overhanging leaves, that the very thing which had at first seemed to him dreadful and intolerable now seemed pleasant.

The Cossacks 2003

I observed that, as your true topers when they travel carry flasks, leathern bottles, and small runlets along with them, so each of them had at his girdle a pretty little pair of bellows.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

I observed that, as your true topers when they travel carry flasks, leathern bottles, and small runlets along with them, so each of them had at his girdle a pretty little pair of bellows.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

The rain splashed about them and poured off in runlets to vanish at the eaves of the building.

Night of masks Norton, Andre 1965

Crowds throng towards the corpses and the men wounded to death, the ground fresh with warm slaughter and the swoln runlets of frothing blood.

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

We observed numerous small runlets of water flowing from the north and east towards the Tell el Kadi, one especially of nearly four feet wide.

Byeways in Palestine James Finn

Everywhere the little runlets are led round the very roots of the trees, for the palm, it is said, loves to have its head in the fire and its feet in the water.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

Far and wide over the country are dispersed the scarlet runners -- and a hundred villages pour forth their admiring swarms, as the main current of the chase roars by, or disparted runlets float wearied and all astray, lost at last in the perplexing woods.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 330, September 6, 1828 Various