When the tide pulls out, it leaves sandy flats raced by rivulets from the canal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hike to Cuastecomate, Jalisco] Reference

The channels of the rivulets are the only roads for the traveller.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia with Some Account of the Late Emperor the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People] Reference

"Creeks are small streams, such as in Scotland would be termed 'burns,' and in England 'rivulets'".    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Forest Or, pictures of life and scenery in the woods of Canada] Reference

Black locks fell over her shoulders in rivulets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chanlis and Desira « A Fly in Amber] Reference

Twin rivulets of dark blood trickled from her nostrils.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make Mine Homogenized] Reference

But wherever the slopes are steep we rivulets have our way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation Reader] Reference

Look at the rivulets, the whorls, the shared characteristics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebecca Campbell and Nicole Walker: 7 Rings Day 2: Featuring Poet Nicole Walker] Reference

Now I have told you what Nature has appointed the muddy rivulets to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation Reader] Reference

How quickly the rivulets have taken advantage of the unprotected slopes!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation Reader] Reference

Upon all the slopes which drain toward the river we rivulets are at work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation Reader] Reference

Upon the slopes about the valleys we rivulets did not leave so much soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation Reader] Reference

He was crying ... the tears making odd little rivulets down his blackened face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the Line] Reference

Now you who think we muddy rivulets do only harm see what we have accomplished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation Reader] Reference

Her dark hair curled around her flushed face and rivulets of sweat tickled her back.    From Wordnik.com.  [’] Reference

The water gathers in rivulets and these turn to torrents which sweep down the slopes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation Reader] Reference

Every memory its own account threading rivulets to sea, spilling water to wall flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Curfew] Reference

A moneybag dangles from her wrist, rivulets of silver collecting in its imitation leather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raindrops] Reference

Would you like to know how we rivulets get rid of the load we carry from the mountain slopes?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation Reader] Reference

These slopes were once covered with grass and the rivulets ran down them without doing any harm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation Reader] Reference

But the strangest thing is that, although the rain is still falling, we can discover no rivulets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation Reader] Reference

It pours gently over the roof, down the windshield in rivulets and waves and slithers off the hood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aria] Reference

They burst forth, thin rivulets of blood streaming through them, soiling her clothes, her bed-sheets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twin Moons] Reference

A score of rivulets from all the mountain side babble hither over rocky beds to join their companions.    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

 The second cone melts, veining your arm with rivulets of pink: pale blood for an insignificant girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strawberry] Reference

Sitting once again in the sand, she shivers as the rivulets of water sing down her shoulders, her back.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impulse of Breathing] Reference

Moderate use is to this kingdom of blood what the thousand rivulets and streams are to the mighty river.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

Before them, fed by the rivulets from the distant hills, the foaming current threatened to overflow its banks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

The rain was pelting him, and his steel-colored hair formed a geography through which rivulets of water coursed.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Thousand Incarnations and One Thousand Deaths - Part I] Reference

Sealed inside the armored shell on this July afternoon, the men wipe away rivulets of sweat and squirm in discomfort.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Shark Hunt In The Night] Reference

My Sunrunner pushed through the morning rain as I drove over to Len's house while rivulets of water dripped down my poncho.    From Wordnik.com.  [Electricscooterland] Reference

Your eyes -- which quickly turn scarlet from irritation -- shed tears continuously, releasing muddy rivulets down your face.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sand And The Fury] Reference

His furrowed brow, dried by the sun and cracked in a million places by the wind was well irrigated by long rivulets of sweat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Feather Hex] Reference

Here on the steep hillside the flowing water followed the beds of small rivulets which carried it away on either side of her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference

A bold mountain landscape is chequered by innumerable rivulets abounding in fish, and watering a soil rich in luxurious vegetation.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference

A trickle of water formed rivulets in a crevice, making just enough of a gurgle to lull me into thinking all was right with the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Edna's Lace] Reference

Her early works were bright and fluid; puddles and rivulets meandered over the opaque surface resulting in meditative, organic paintings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cherie Louise Turner: ARTIST PROFILE: Nellie King Solomon] Reference

Inside his armor, perspiration poured in rivulets down his skin, and his arms and legs began to ache, but not for one second did he let up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despoilers of the Golden Empire] Reference