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Trickle   /trˈɪkəl/   Listen
noun
Trickle  n.  The act or state of trickling; also, that which trickles; a small stream; drip. "Streams that... are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud."



verb
Trickle  v. i.  (past & past part. trickled; pres. part. trickling)  To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops. "His salt tears trickled down as rain." "Fast beside there trickled softly down A gentle stream."






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"Trickle" Quotes from Famous Books



... caught the wanderer but kept right on without pause to the trickle of water under the flat wide-spreading tree—it was a solitaire, being king of its own domain and the only shade, except the vine-covered ...
— The Treasure Trail - A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine • Marah Ellis Ryan

... the cave and vapours from the volcano. Barring seals, everything suitable for light housekeeping, such as mine. Undertook to clean house. Dragged late lamented out into the water. Some sank and were swept away by the sea-puss. Others, I regret to say, floated. Found trickle of fresh water in depth of cave, and little sand-ledge to sleep on. So far, so good: we may be 'appy yet. If only I had my cigarette supply. Once heard a botanist say that leaves of the white shore-willow made fair substitute ...
— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams

... I—" the words clogged, jumbled as he tried to get them out. His emotions ran from anger, to amazement, to indignation, followed by a trickle of fear, and as he stared at Gordon, the fear grew. He could scarcely ...
— Security • Ernest M. Kenyon

... majestic animal, with the fatal spear in his side, yet loyal in his vigil over the royal shield, is a grand image of fidelity unto death. The stillness, the isolation, the vivid creepers festooning the rocks, the clear mirror of the basin, into which trickle pellucid streams, reflecting the vast proportions of the enormous lion, the veteran Swiss, who acts as cicerone, the adjacent chapel with its altar-cloth wrought by one of the fair descendants of the Bourbon king and queen for ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various

... leaped back the way I had come, from one stone to another, and set off running across the isle as I had never run before. In about half an hour I came out upon the shores of the creek; and, sure enough, it was shrunk into a little trickle of water, through which I dashed, not above my knees, and landed with a shout on the ...
— Kidnapped • Robert Louis Stevenson


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