runlet

A runlet of water trickled past the end of the hut.

A single runlet of blood, incredibly bright in the gray day, slipped from the comer of his mouth.

Every little runlet and dribble is harvested and conveyed by subterranean channels to the main ditch.

As I knotted my choice into a square of seal-foam, Valcyr came walking, with that particular sure-footed daintiness of her species, along the bank of the small runlet.

Lastly, the uttermost sea, Starred with flakes of spray sunlit, Blue as its caverns that be Crystal, resplendent, yet unlit; So like a mother receives the kiss of the dainty-lip runlet.

During the morning hours of 12 December, Lord Crawford sent a missive to Farnham, requesting of Waller that he be sent a "runlet of sack", promising an ox in exchange.

They travelled back to Stone Runlet, Kalstaff's dwelling, together, and Aldwyn met the other two wizards-in-training, Dalton and Marianne, as well as their respective familiars, Skylar and Gilbert.

For instance, I could never make a cask to be hooped; I had a small runlet or two, as I observed before, but I could never arrive to the capacity of making one of them, though I spent many weeks about it.

"We can bear witness," said Gilbert; "for when we had cleared away the ruin, and by Saint Dunstan's help lighted upon the dungeon stair, we found the runlet of sack half empty, the Jew half dead, and the Friar more than half---exhausted, as he calls it."

And the Voices have ceased from their strife: Not a whisper of sneering or snarling, As he carries it home to his wife: Then, cheerily champing the bunlet His spouse was so skilful to bake, He hies him once more to the runlet, To fetch her the Drake!

Now the poem acquires its memory-branding descriptive richness: we're shown the tracery of leaves on a hot blue August sky, the oaks shading the picnicking lovers, the fruit and wine cooling beside the "runlet," the "hard, smooth" rock-face, and, of course, the "inciting incident" - the accidental dropping of the wine-glass.