Think about Day 4, after the air conditioning has dropped a bit and the chest has begun to sink into itself in runnels of oozing fat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day Bari And I Finally Met] Reference

Gorged, they alighted by his runnels of sweat and drank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Flies]

The several runnels formed into one big one, gaining speed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harpy Thyme]

Her tears had cut runnels through the kohl and antimony makeup.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock]

How many kays of such runnels ran beneath Fairhaven ... and why?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Order]

The violet human eyes looked at him from amidst runnels of tears.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Torc]

Trickles of moisture from my temples, runnels of it from my armpits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Year of the Unicorn]

Spray slashed their backs and washed stinging runnels into their eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stormwarden]

"Fire there and there, and Earth, and Air and Spirit, filling the runnels.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Crown of Swords]

The wide runnels that had been trampled through the camp for paths lay empty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of Daggers]

Crouching low in the runnels of the bog, I ran till the sweat blinded my eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thirty-Nine Steps] Reference

He made little runnels that the tide filled and tried to crowd them with creatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Flies]

"Alianne died in childbirth, " Sean said, tears now making runnels down his cheeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Fall]

The thousands of runnels coming down the slopes sparkled in the sunlight, like fangs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soul of the Fire]

He was sweating, the trickles of moisture down his face washing runnels through the dust.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Piper]

There were other runnels of the stuff, and I had never seen a land so forbidding and forsaken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Piper]

I am a child looking at his feet and the little runnels that the stream has made in the gravel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Waves] Reference

 She sat down and played a few rapid runnels, in mischief mode, to concentrate her apprehensions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Son of a Witch]

Now Andrew Goravec stood dumbly near the centre of the room, blinking bloody runnels from his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

Beads of sweat left runnels through the powder that gave a smooth color to Master Feden's aging skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirit Gate] Reference

They eject the dirt from their runnels behind them, and where they touch the surface it forms into a pile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Source of Magic]

The searching runnels from the canvas were really more unpleasant than the sudden definite douches of the sprays.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]

Amongst the best of these is the "wiregrass," found in woods, growing especially over runnels in those localities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

Joscelin stood in the road, breathing hard, blood sliding in crimson runnels toward the point of his lowered sword.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kushiel's Avatar]

Held back, she stared up with wild, petrified eyes, white runnels on her cheeks where tears had eaten through the grime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civvies]

We crossed the saddle after four miles, and found beneath our feet little shallow runnels of water-courses in the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference

Keisha left, making her way through the growing runnels of water, protecting both sets of provisions under her rain cape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Owlsight]

Even our tidy green park was a sea of mud, and we needed shovels to direct the runnels and creeks out from under our feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

A huge star of syrupy wine marred the smooth stone, and began to trickle down in long runnels which soaked into the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Man in Rome]

The telemetry cartridge on the floor is almost dry now, fine runnels of salt crusting its surface as the seawater evaporates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

It jumped on top of the trunk and plugged its lower appendages firmly into the runnels of the trunk; but it had no time to preen.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOTHOUSE]

Exhausted, he stumbled to the couch quivering from anxiety and exertion, runnels of perspiration sang down his cheeks, back, chest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fasting to a Comfortable Death] Reference

And while they talked, the voices of the snow-waters round them diminished one by one as the night-frost choked and clogged the runnels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim] Reference

Cliffs ran straight to the sea, sheer rock in a sixty - to seventy-degree slope, with glossy runnels where lava had flowed from the peaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destiny's Road]