It is a large and handsome mansion, with beautiful pleasure grounds crossed by a small rivulet.    From LearnThat.org.  [yourdictionary.com]

From this spring, the water escapes in a tiny stream, called a rivulet or creek, and flows along until it enters a river.    From Wordnik.com.  [New National Fourth Reader] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales] Reference

"Driving ATVs in the farms and through the rivulet is a completely amazing experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

The stony bottom of the rivulet was his only aid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flaming Jewel] Reference

The plows crossed and recrossed the rivulet marks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Claudia Ricci: Call me Ishmael? No, Just Email Me Your Choice Instead!] Reference

The molten metal flowed to the floor like a rivulet of lava.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beast of Space] Reference

The muddy rivulet has already told us its interesting story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation Reader] Reference

Men more often resemble the stagnant water than the rivulet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.] Reference

One last rivulet of blood slowly oozes down the wall as it dries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Devil's Bedpost] Reference

Ere long Jerry found a tiny rivulet flowing in a well-worn hollow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference

Every creek was a rushing river and every rivulet a raging torrent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference

Farther in the island I saw a feeble old man sitting near a rivulet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Favorite Fairy Tales] Reference

The white fluid did run down the long brush handle in a small rivulet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference

Suddenly the lion fell, with a rivulet of blood issuing from his heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

Every spring and rivulet, lakelet, river, and ocean, is a glassy mirror of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference

Presently they came to a shelf of rock which overlooked the valley of the rivulet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference

The rivulet proved to be sulphurous and also hot, the temperature being about 91 F.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference

Near by was a rivulet from whose bed a spring gushed forth emitting clouds of steam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

In returning we kept on the bank of the rivulet until it swelled into a small river.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

After some days, he reached a spot where a small rivulet flowed between two mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference

A rivulet of perspiration sang down his cheek from a wellspring hidden in his sideburn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fasting to a Comfortable Death] Reference

Then another rivulet was encountered, in which they bathed and by which they rested a spell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference

The soil in the valleys, as we have already learned from the muddy rivulet, is deep and rich.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation Reader] Reference

I declare if I stay here much longer I shall flow away, and nothing be left of me but a rivulet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference

But our work, says the muddy rivulet, was not finished with the making of the fertile valley lands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation Reader] Reference

Walter followed the little rivulet to where it disappeared in a small gully under a corner of the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference

The site of the farm where this scene was enacted is still pointed out; and near it runs a rivulet, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference

We pass over a small brook on our way, and of course stop on the bridge and gaze into the little rivulet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference

The spring was an excellent one and the rivulet flowing away from it was bordered with large wild-rose bushes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference

Sandy only laughed in reply to the warning, and the two boys proceeded downstream, one on each side of the rivulet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference

The trees were few -- some cropped willows by a mud-banked rivulet and a group or two of gaunt and melancholy elms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

While the boys stood waiting end listening an answering whistle came from the side of a mountain not far from the rivulet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference

Will signalled back "O. K.," and then the lads turned back up the rivulet, the idea being to cross over to the north side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference

Presently we saw a clear little rivulet coming in on the left, and we ran up to that shore to examine it, hoping it was drinkable.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference

 He's so heavy that his body makes a deep rivulet in the wet sand, and an incoming wave threatens to pull him back out to the ocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adrift] Reference

When I enquired of him how he came there, he only answered by signs for me to carry him over the rivulet, that he might eat some fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Favorite Fairy Tales] Reference

Next, the slope lending its aid, the channels had drained into one, and by this time a black rivulet was crawling downward to the margin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference