In the cassoulet I suspect I want that fat to render during cooking, but for rillets perhaps I don't. From Wordnik.com. [Duck Confit] Reference
IRENE goes up to the wall of rock, and lets the rillets of the cascade flow over her hands, cooling them. From Wordnik.com. [When We Dead Awaken] Reference
And pierced by them (in return) and bathed in blood, he shone like a hill with rillets of water mixed with red-chalk. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
Other huge elephants were seen striking against one another and shedding blood from various limbs like mountains with rillets running down their breasts. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Bhagadatta, rushed towards Bhimasena, on his elephant of rent temples and with juice trickling down in seven currents and resembling (on that account) a mountain with (as many) rillets flowing down its breast after a shower. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
And she was dissolved in tears -- so genuine, that they marked pale rillets across the bloom of her cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [In the Year of Jubilee] Reference
The blood that ran then must have been in rillets too thin to slake Caracalla's thirst, for simultaneously almost, he was in. From Wordnik.com. [Imperial Purple] Reference
Down where his canoe had lain, tiny rillets of muddy water were still running into its imprint left in the mire; but canoe, dog, and man had vanished into the rank undergrowth of the swamp. From Wordnik.com. [Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana] Reference
The river was settling decorously into its bed, and in the sunlight the drenched shores shone under a tracery of pools and rillets as though a silvery gauze had been rudely torn back from them, catching and tearing here and there. From Wordnik.com. [The Emigrant Trail] Reference
A couple of steps forward, under their feet the elastic sod sank and rose with a spurt of silver jets; they sprang back to their seats, and the shading tree above shook down a shining shower in rillets of silver rain. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
Runnels, which rillets swell. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetry Of Robert Browning] Reference
Many still-gliding rillets, many a peak. From Wordnik.com. [Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala] Reference
In amorous rillets down her shrinking form!. From Wordnik.com. [Endymion A Poetic Romance] Reference
He feeds the rillets that towards Him flow. From Wordnik.com. [Found of them that sought Him not] Reference
Of diamond rillets musical. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson] Reference
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